Author Archives: pauseability

About pauseability

An educator at large and learner at heart. Founder of Pauseability. Encouraging everyone to learn to pause, and pause to learn.

How Many?

Posted on July 5, 2018

One of the powerful uses of TinyTap is for the learners to create a game as part of their learning process. One of my first few ideas which was tried with a class of preschooler has been made into this … Continue reading →

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Community Art

Posted on May 24, 2018

Spent the evening at a casual, intimate and very stimulating conversation about the practice of community art facilitated by Janet Pillai and Jeffrey Tan. The group comprised artists as well as art administrators from NAC. After listing the problems faced … Continue reading →

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Made a Pitch

Posted on April 21, 2018

The idea of a social enterprise is a company that does good as it’s core activity while sustaining it as a business. In Singapore, we have an agency that supports SEs called raiSE. Among other things, it runs an event … Continue reading →

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A Hundred Languages

Posted on April 5, 2018

I met this boy in one of my art tours and he was walking right in front of the queue with his class. While walking as a class, he got rather annoyed when his friend cut his queue. As he … Continue reading →

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Sparks!

Posted on March 9, 2018

The wrap-up celebration of the pilot art residency at nursing homes – an exhibition at Raffles City which opened today. It was graced by President Halimah. I am glad to meet Aunty Joan, Aunty Kwan, Mercy and Laurice again. Aunty … Continue reading →

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Nightingale

Posted on February 21, 2018

This is probably one of the fastest I have ever been in creating a new TinyTap resource. Here’s my retelling of the famous fairy tale Nightingale. http://www.tinytap.it/activities/g2nts/play/nightingale The text was written in rhyme (call me crazy) and then I created … Continue reading →

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Volunteers for Outings with Seniors

Posted on February 15, 2018

Imagine bespoke programs that will engage a senior with dementia or draw an isolated senior to be out engaging in the community.   Empower Ageing, a registered charity, is prototyping personalized outings for seniors with dementia changing the way how … Continue reading →

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