I walked with the crowds in Bugis Village, Singapore. I held my digital still camera above my head. It created an AVI at 640 x 480 pixels and 25fps. It suffered a little from the shakes. I compressed the video down to a 320 x 240 pixels at 15fps. Gives you an idea of the tourists and locals that flock through this part of Singapore.

Captured this gent busking in Bugis Junction. A mix of media and cultures.

One of the more busy pedestrian crossings in Singapore. One that my wife Shao Ping and I crossed many times. People often take a chance as the lights turn to green.

I experimented with my small Casio digital camera to capture a few movies that I could use during my vodcasting workshop today. I wandered a little around Singapore and simply caught people going from one place to the other.

The education and social networking workshop at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) yesterday was quite enjoyable. There were particpants from NTU, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Polytechnic and the Ministry of Education. The participants worked very hard and were most studious. I was asked excellent questions and had a number of good problems to resolve. In a day the participants:

• considered why they should set up a social~education network
• how and why they could make a difference
• looked at good examples
• learnt how to locate good blogs
• located useful blogs via technorati and bloglines,
• bookmarked them in their new del.icio.us accounts,
• created a blog
• embedded images, movies, badges and Google maps in their blogs
• added links to their blogs
• tagged their posts
• reviewed Picasa and/or Flickr accounts ~ some set them up
• set up Google Reader and subscribed to blogs, podcasts, flikr and TedTalks
• added Google Reader widget to their new iGoogle page
• added “Blog this” and del.icio.us buttons to their browsers
• set up a Twitter account and added it to their blog

Three issues came up:

1. Could not add a del.icio.us feed to Google reader ~ why?
2. Twitter home page design changed in the last few days ~ “difficult” to find badges now
3. Jaiku bought by Google the night before so they could not set up a Jaiku ~ bad timing

It was an enjoyable workshop. We were busy all day and ended the day with a Twitter fest like birds coming home to roost as the sun sets.