Conferences

2009, October, Fusionopolis, Social Innovation Park, Singapore
Global Social Innovators Forum
Collaborative Innovations: Investing in Team Earth & an Inclusive World
Participated in Forum

2009 July, Tsinghua University, Beijing China
36th International Systemic Functional Congress, Challenges to Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and practice
Presented a Colloquium: Multimodal Analysis: Technology, Theory and Practice
With Multimodal Analysis Lab Team

2008 December, University of Sydney, Australia
Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language Symposium
Participated and Presented Paper on “Exploring Multimodality in the Classroom”

2008 November, Singapore
Asia Conference: Touching Asia, Transforming the World
Conducted Elective Workshop on “Helping Someone Break an Addiction”

2008 August, Multimodal Analysis Lab, NUS, Singapore
4th International Conference on Multimodality: Technology, Multimodal Representation and Knowledge
Presented Paper on “The Construction of a Teacher in Making Lessons Come Alive: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Film Text”

2008 July, Multimodal Analysis Lab, NUS, Singapore
4th International Conference on Multimodality: Technology, Multimodal Representation and Knowledge
Organising Committee

2008 June, Anshan, Shenyang, China
Spelling Bee Competition
Invited as Judge

2008 May, Rivervalley High School, Singapore
Critical Thinking Symposium
Invited as Panel Chairperson

2008 March, Multimodal Analysis Lab, NUS, Singapore
Multimodal Research Seminar Series
Presented Paper on “The Construction of a Teacher in Making Lessons Come Alive: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Film Text”

2007 December, Wulong, ChongQing, China
Spelling Bee Competition
Invited as Judge

2007 October, Jurong Junior College, Singapore
West Zone Research & Development Symposium
Invited as Panel Chairperson.

2007 July, Denver, Colorado, USA
National Staff Development Council, Denver, USA 2007. “Converging Forces: for School-Based Profesional Learning”.
Participated in conference

2007 May, Civil Service College, Singapore
8th Executive Development Course, Institute of Policy Development
Participated Course and Facilitated Session on Population Challenges

2006 November, Hong Kong
Asia-Pacific Education Research Association Conference, Hong Kong 2006 on Educational Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Globalization: The Asia Pacific Perspectives and Beyond.
Participated and presented a paper titled “Teach Less, Learn More? Unravelling the Paradox with People Development”

2006 November, online
2nd Australian Council for Educational Leaders & Microsoft Online Conference on ‘The Future of Schooling”
Participated and presented a paper titled “Imagining Pedagogy: Infusing Visual Literary in Schools”

2006 September, Sydney, Australia
Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference, Australia, New South Wales, Armidale: “Multimodal Texts & Multiliteracies: Semiotic Theory and Practical Pedagogy”
Participated and presented a paper titled “Reading Sequential Visual Discourse: Analysis of an Advertisement”

2006 August, Singapore
General Paper In-Service Course at the National Institute of Education, Singapore
Invited to present on the “Approaches to Teaching the Application Question” to new teachers

2006 July, Singapore
Singapore’s Ministry of Education Excel Festival 2006
Co-presented with Lim, W.P, Chua, Y.H.S. &; Chiew, S.J “The JJ Hamburger Approach: Teaching Reading through Text Structure”

2006 May, online
1st Australian Council for Educational Leaders & Microsoft Online Conference on ‘Innovative Teaching and Learning’
Participated and presented a paper titled “Towards Interest Directed Learning in General Paper”

2005 December, Singapore
International Conference on Education organised by Temasek Hall, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Participated and presented a paper titled “Designing a Holistic Educational Environment: The JJ Revised Curriculum Framework (JJRCF)”

2005 June, Singapore
Redesigning Pedagogy: Research, Policy, Practice Conference organised by Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Participated and presented a paper titled “JJ Posits for the World to Come: A Conceptual Framework.”

2002 Jan Salzburg, Austria
1st Symposium on Multi-modal Discourse at Salzburg University, Austria
Attended and presented a paper titled: “Developing an integrative Multisemiotic model for the analysis of a multimodal picture book.”