by Joan Wee | Aug 17, 2015 | Administrators, ALL, Faculty, Media creation, Students
Featured image Credit: Business vector designed by Freepik Getting Started with Prezi Prezi is a dynamic online zooming presentation tool that helps to animate your presentation. Some readers might complain about “airbag sickness” when seeing a prezi...
by Joan Wee | Nov 24, 2014 | ALL, Faculty, Social Media
I gave a brief introduction on altmetrics or alternative metrics in a earlier posting and shared some literature talking about altmetrics as a metric for measuring research impact via social media mentions. But altmetrics is more than just social media mentions, it...
by Joan Wee | Nov 17, 2014 | ALL, Faculty, Mobile & Apps, Students
Recently, I was asked to conduct a workshop on creating video and my immediate response was “I thought anyone is able to create a video using his/her mobile phone”. As mobile apps become more powerful and functional, so are video taking and editing apps....
by Joan Wee | Oct 29, 2014 | ALL, Faculty, Social Media
A few months back, Twitter offered 6 research institutions access to their public and historical data under their #DataGrants program. More than 1,300 proposals from over 60 countries were submitted. With more than 500 million tweets per day, twitter data offers a...
by Hedren Sum | Sep 25, 2014 | ALL, Faculty, Students
Need to use an image for your assignments, research papers or design, but not sure if you can really use it due to copyright? We understand the complexity in understanding copyright and here are two quick tools, developed by by the Visual Resource Association (VRA),...
by Hedren Sum | Aug 6, 2014 | ALL, Faculty
Can I use that picture? – This should be the question we should be asking before using any image for our presentation, blog posts, publication or other commercial or noncommerical purposes. With the Internet today, you can easily obtain images from websites,...
