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Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 13:42:02 +0000

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:35:33 +0000

Here are more questions to think about:

Employability: Is being familiar with machine translation tool actually increasing Employability? If machine translation tool is going to be very common in the industry, […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 04:11:17 +0000

Derrida, J. and Bass, A. (2001). Writing and difference. London: Routledge.

Fukuyama, F. (2006). The End of History and the Last Man. New York, N.Y. ; London: Free Press.

McGarry, A., Erhart, I., E […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 01:53:38 +0000

Research Question: Student Translating Non-English Native Languages into English in Essay Writing

Define the Problem and Frame Research Question

Research Question: Student Translating […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:30:24 +0000

Interviews serve as the core of my research methodology. Interviews do not only offer real-time interaction between the researcher and participants allowing for immediate clarification of doubts or […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:30:20 +0000

PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Action Research Project Ethical Enquiry Form

Participant name: SING HANG TAM

Cohort: 4

Tutor name [delete as appropriate]: Lindsay […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:35:47 +0000

My research method mainly consists of in-depth 1-to-1 interviews with teachers and students. These are some questions that I am planning to ask regarding my research topic – Student Translating into English in […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:57:12 +0000

Notes on Teaching Resistance by John Mink

We have encountered the ongoing assault on academic freedom: from the imposition of “standardized syllabi” that “inform” the consumers (the students) what to expect […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:07:12 +0000

To what extend is our job to make the materials more accessible to the students? To what extend is the students’ job to learn the materials trying hard?

The reason why I am asking these questions is that I h […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 22 May 2023 23:01:52 +0000

As noted in The Order of Things, by Foucault, Spanish writer Jorge Luis Borges claims that, in a Chinese encyclopaedia, the animal kingdom could be classified as:

belonging to the […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 22 May 2023 23:00:52 +0000

Thing I Learnt:

The first thing I learnt is the Case study 4, which is about encouraging a non- hierarchical collaboration.

Encouraging students to feel a sense of ownership over their environment can lead […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 22 May 2023 23:00:18 +0000

In the video, the speaker highlights how unconscious bias can be used as a “get-out-of-jail” card for teachers. Instead, as educator, we should pay conscious attention on treating people equally. This is not onl […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 22 May 2023 22:59:47 +0000

Thing I Learnt:

Paulo Freire, drawing from his own experiences of poverty, argues that education can either domesticate or liberate students and teachers. He believes that education often perpetuates the […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 22 May 2023 22:58:47 +0000

A few weeks ago, I attended the farewell party for Aisha, the former director of Shades of Noir. I was surprised that she remembered me, given that we had only talked a few times. During the event, many […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing's Testing Blog

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:48:48 +0000

If it fits, i sits find empty spot in cupboard and sleep all day yet always ensure to lay down in such a manner that tail can lightly brush human’s nose this cat happen now, it was too purr-fect!!! and run as fa […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing's Testing Blog

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:48:21 +0000

Miaow then turn around and show you my bum take a big fluffing crap ðŸ’©, for pretend not to be evil claws in the eye of the beholder or jump up to edge of bath, fall in then scramble in a mad panic to get out b […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing's Testing Blog

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:47:47 +0000

Demand to have some of whatever the human is cooking, then sniff the offering and walk away toy mouse squeak roll over why can’t i catch that stupid red dot sniff catnip and act crazy in the middle of the nig […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing Testing Site

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:45:54 +0000

Friends are not food purr for no reason ha ha, you’re funny i’ll kill you last, or run up and down stairs. Eat a rug and furry furry hairs everywhere oh no human coming lie on counter don’t get off cou […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing Testing Site

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:45:05 +0000

This is Session 2. Peer out window, chatter at birds, lure them to mouth chirp at birds you call this cat food meow meow you are my owner so here is a dead rat gnaw the corn cob. Paw your face to wake you up […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing Testing Site

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:44:03 +0000

This is Session 1. Purr like an angel furball roll roll roll or human clearly uses close to one life a night no one naps that long so i revive by standing on chestawaken!. Plan your travel kitty pooc […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing (Testing Site)

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:36:32 +0000

Testing 1

Testing 2

Testing 3

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 22 May 2022 21:31:50 +0000

Today a German student told me tomorrow is her birthday, and I said happy birthday to her? However, she said that, in Germany, saying happy birthday would introduce bad luck if not on the exact birthday. She is […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 22 May 2022 21:30:12 +0000

In this open lecture, Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah states that religious identities are not just the matters of beliefs. The idea of ‘faith’ oversimplified that ideas of religions. Each religion has three asp […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 22 May 2022 19:00:41 +0000

Ayam Jabr believes that religion, faith, and spirituality do not increase or decrease creativity. When being asked how art education support students with religious identities. Moreover, Ayam said all art in […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 22 May 2022 18:31:44 +0000

In Paper two, Religion, the public sphere and higher education, Professor Craig Calhoun addresses the issues around extremism around religions. My program is also working with students from a diverse ethnic and […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 22 May 2022 18:30:28 +0000

In Pen Portraits, Angela mentioned that, when encountering students’ references to cultural and religious practices that she is not familiar with, Angela responded by researching on the subject matters herself, s […]

Sing Hang Tam commented on the post, Deaf-accessibility for spoonies: lessons from touring Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee while chronically ill, on the site Freddie's PGCERT Blog

Sun, 15 May 2022 22:03:32 +0000

Regarding that you want to ‘encourage disabled students to tell their stories, making a piece about them’, I wonder whether we should be carefully about doing so.

This is a tricky problem to address. If we enc […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 08 May 2022 22:57:47 +0000

After carefully reading the webpages, I have been thinking a lot regarding the system.

The funding for disability and dyslexia is very helpful, and I should keep in mind that I could encourage my students to […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 08 May 2022 22:50:14 +0000

I am surprised to know some of the statistics. The list of key terms is very helpful as well; it makes me aware of how I should use my language more carefully. I am glad to know who the staffs can go to if the […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sat, 07 May 2022 22:30:36 +0000

Not all disabilities are visible. We should be more open to helping people with less visible disability; and we should try to be more understanding and aware. The society definitely needs more awareness for pain […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Fri, 06 May 2022 22:30:22 +0000

When it comes to inclusion of disabled voices, there is a great lack of representation of disable people of colour.

Disable person of colour (especially women) are very under-represented.

In my own […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Fri, 06 May 2022 22:30:06 +0000

Watching about Christine Sun Kim is an interesting experience. The way she descripted the notion of the ‘ownership of sound’ is very inspiring. I think often we reply too much on the verbal and vocal exp […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 23:59:50 +0000

This is the last post of this term. I want to end with a high note.

One day after class, in the students’ studios, I saw this writing on the whiteboard.

This is another tiny warm moment in my teaching […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:00:30 +0000

In my recent session with her, she has come to me and asked me for my suggestion on her recent struggles.

She was planning to conduct a photographic project. This project is going to be a part of her […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 22:50:52 +0000

I would love to share some of my recent struggles and my thinking around it. The following is three difficulties that I recently encountered.

Group Discussions and Plagiarism

A student has mentioned to me […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:30:45 +0000

My two observers, Emily and Alexia, happened to have observed my teaching in the same day. Emily and Alexia observed my morning and afternoon session respectively. Those two sessions include the same […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 22:00:17 +0000

I designed my session to make it more learner-focused. In my micro-teaching session, I utilise various pedagogical methods, including collaborative group learning, task-based learning, and peer review. The […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 02:55:01 +0000

I have been analysing about the way Socrates asks questions – known as Socratic Method.

The key features of the Socratic method are listed below:

Establishment of the clear pieces of information;

To f […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:50:52 +0000

Recently I have been reading Symposium, Apology of Socrates, and Euthyphro, written by Plato. There books are well known for portraying about Socrates’s life, especially th trial and death of So […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:13 +0000

I want to share a story which happened to me yesterday.

Yesterday, during the break, I asked this student whether she sent me a long email at the end of Term 1 asking for my clarification regarding her grades. […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:30:38 +0000

I am afraid I missed our first session this week, due to my overlapping working days. I still want to complete the task, which is the research on an article about pedagogy, and sharing my thoughts.

For the […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:48:15 +0000

My name is Sing Hang Tam; and I am a lecturer for International: Introduction to the Study of Fashion and International Preparation for Fashion. My LinkedIn is: […]

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing (Testing Site)

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:02:57 +0000

This is Business.

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing (Testing Site)

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:31:00 +0000

This is Media.

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing (Testing Site)

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:27:59 +0000

This is Design.

Sing Hang Tam wrote a new post on the site This is Sing (Testing Site)

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:19:28 +0000

This is my testing site.