
I help run peer-learning events in Asia. I talk about technology and its impact on our lives via stories that I collect in my travels. I am an Apple distinguished educator. I design and facilitate technology programs for educators and non-profits. Content on this web is available for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
Email: preetamrai at gmail.com.
Twitter: @preetamrai
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/preetamrai
2012
- March 13, SiTF Asia Pacific ICT Summit 2012, Panel on Social Engagement, Singapore http://www.apicts.com/
- February 18 , The rise of un-conferences in Asia, iKMS (Information and Knowledge Management Society), Singapore
- February 15, Technology Special Interest Group Meet, Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore
- February 02 , Presentation on Synthetic Worlds and Social Networks at St Joseph’s institution, Singapore
- January 18 – Heroes Seminar, Presentation on community learning in South East Asia, Singapore
- January 13 – Personal Branding for Educators, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2011
- December 15, Creative Mixer. Travel as inspiration for design ideas
- December 13, Creating ebooks, Creative Crew, Bedok Library, Singapore
- December 12, Barcamp Saigon, Vietnam
- December 7, Technology interest group at Adult Educator’s Network, Singapore
- December 5,6,9 Heroes Seminar, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechic, Singapore
- December 02, Educamp Singapore 3, National Institute for Education (NIE), Singapore
- November 24, Educamp Kuala Lumpur, Travel and Learn
- November 20, WordCamp Singapore, Breakout session on Content
- November 18, GovCamp Singapore – Social Networks in Emergency Preparedness
- November 18, Learning Roundtable – Mobile content for education
- November 16, The Art of “Traveling Lost”, Blink Bl_nk Singapore.
- November 12, Barcamp Hong Kong at Hong Kong City University
- November 01 Mobile photography workshop at Raffles Institution, Singapore
- October 25, Moderating EDB OpenRoom session, Economic Board of Singapore and Ogilvy
- October 22, Barcamp Phnom Penh, Puthisastra University, Cambodia
- October 15, TEDx Phnom Penh – The Unlikely Diplomats, Cambodia
- October 11, Photography with simpler camera, Creative Crew October Session , Jurong Regional Library, Singapore
- October 11, Better Online Search and Reference, guest lecture at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- September 18, 2011. Travel BookClub Presentation – Dalat
- September 17, 2011. Software Freedom Day – A presentation on Android Development with App Inventor.
- September 13, 2011. Better Presentations at Creative Crew September Meet, Woodlands Regional Library
- Barcamp Singapore , Saturday, September 10,at Blk 71
- August 14, Barcamp Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Multimedia Univ. Cyberjaya
- August 16, 2011 – Smartphones and Educators – Institute of Adult Learning, Singapore
- July 24, 2011 Barcamp Saigon 4
- July 21, Online Research Techniques Workshop at the Institute of Adult Learning, Singapore
- June 25, Litcamp Singapore – Presentation on Translation and “Local context vs. Local Language” from a traveler’s point of view.
- June 23, 2011- A workshop on classroom engagement techniques for 1:1 class. Anglo Chinese School Singapore
- June 17, 2011 – EduTech panel at Echelon 2011, Singapore. http://echelon.e27.sg/agenda
- June 9, 2011 - Ideas on training educators in social web, Presentation as a part of Learning Journey, eLearning Forum Asia 2011, Ngee Ann Polytechnic-NTU, Singapore
- June 8, 2011 - A presentation on informal learning in Asia – The rise of Un-conferences and Hackspaces - eLearning Forum Asia 2011 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore
- May 21, 2011 - Barcamp Chaingmai 2011 – Payap University http://www.barcampchiangmai.org/
- May 13, 2011 - WordConf Asia 2011 – Closing Keynote – Meaning of it all: How your ideas and tools help change the world. http://www.wordconf.asia/agenda
- May 11-12, 2011 New Media Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Learning in the connected age http://www.thenewmedia.asia/
- April 22, 2011 - Pecha Kucha Night Reboot – The art of getting lost while traveling and joys on unplanned travel.https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189041074474511
- April 21, 2011 - EduCamp Singapore 2 https://sites.google.com/site/educampsg2/
- April 12 , 2011 Fun and Profit with QR Codes – bringing interactivity to print. Bedok Regional Library, Singapore.http://preetam.net/presentation-at-creative-crew-april-2011-work
- March 23, 2011 WorkCamp Singapore, Discussing the future of work, alternative ways of organizing information.https://www.flickevents.com/workcamp
- March 23 to 29, 2011 Professional Certificate in New Media Communications, Social Media outreach for Public Sector, School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and the Civil Services College of Singapore
- March 17, 2011 Embracing Social Networks – Keynote presentation for World Vision Asia Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand.
- March 3, 2011 A discussion on the developments in the IT scene in Vietnam. Hong Phuc and Mario on Vietnamese IT scene
- January 19, 2011 GovCamp SG panel on government-citizen collaboration http://www.gov2.net/ Institue of System Sciences, National University of Singapore We were at GovCamp Singapore earlier today
- January 10, 2011 Wikipedia 10th Birthday celebrations in Singapore, Hackerspace.sg Celebrating the 10th Birthday of Wikipedia
2010 and earlier
- December 18 and 19, Barcamp Melaka, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia
- December 14, The decisive mobile moment – adventures in mobile phone photography, Great apps for the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7, Creative Crew Singapore, Choa Chu Kang Public Library
- December 12 Barcamp and Educamp Saigon, RMIT, Saigon, Vietnam
- December 3, 2010 – EducampSG1, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
- November 14 – Traveling China with four authors – A presentation on what books to read before/while/after your China travels. – Woodlands Central Library, Singapore
- November 12 to 13 – FOSSASIA 2010, Raffles College, Saigon, Vietnam – Open Source in Education, Un-conference sessions
- October 28 – A presentation on new features in Blackboard Learning Management Systems, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- October 23 and 24, Barcamp Bangkok 4, Sripatum University, Bangkok, Thailand
- October 9 and 10, 2010 – Barcamp Singapore, Singapore City Hall
- October 6 to 12, 2010 – Professional Certificate in New Media Communications, Ran the session on ideas and technologies behind social media, School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and the Civil Services College of Singapore
- September 25 and 26, 2010 Barcamp Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- September 18, 2010 Barcamp Hongkong – Tech events across Asia, Mobile platforms – Challenges with Android
- September 2010 – Geekcamp, Singapore Management University. Presentation on a) Binaural Audio and b) Geek Culture in Asia and Africa
- August 2010 – Presentation on User Generated Events in South East Asia at National University of Singapore
- August 2010 blink BL-NK #6 at Blu Jazz, Singapore. Presentation titled “Changing the World by Just Showing UP”. An overview of user generated learning events in East Asia. Singapore
- July 2010 Open Web Asia, KL, Malaysia. Moderated the opening session on Growing Digital in Asia, Ran an un-conference session on web and mobile highlights in Asia and Africa.
- July 2010 Organized the Travel- Bookclub meet at Woodlands Regional Library with speakers talking about New Zealand and Australia. My own presentation was on Fiji and Tonga, Travel Bookclub meet, Woodlands Central Library, Singapore
- June 2010 Creative Commons Salon – Presentation on My experience with Creative Commons Licensing Hackerspace.sg, Singapore
- June 2009 Barcamp Create Jakarta – Presentation on hyperlinking the world and what’s happening in the region. Jakarta, Indonesia.
- May 2010 Barcamp Tokyo @ Oracle Japan. Presentation We need the Japanese in Asia – how we need to more Japanese participation in tech events in Asia and what ideas they can bring to us.
- May 2010 Barcamp Mekong, Can Tho, Vietnam Presentation on Running low budget tech events
- April 2010 Barcamp Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Session on “The future of Education”
- April 2010 Traveling South East Asia – Organized a travel event with speakers from Thailand and Myanmar focussing on interesting things to explore while visiting these countries.
- March 2010 Helped put up the fifth Barcamp in Singapore with Singapore Polytechnic. We had about 300 participants from half a dozen countries. A review video posted by one of attendees here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGiNTa_a-oY
- March 2010 Apple Distinguished Educator 2010 Class. Presentation on Globalschool – a platform for teachers to identify a class in another region to collaborate with.
- March 2010 Professional Certificate in New Media Communications, Ran the session on ideas, technologies and techniques behind making sense of and publishing online media, School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and the Civil Services College of Singapore
- January 2010 Barcamp Yangon, Myanmar. Session on Image Manipulation Tricks, Community Learning.
- December 2009, Neoteny Camp, Singapore – One of the winning presentations in Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge – A Hat-tip system for Free Content http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/hat-tip-for-free-content
- November 2009. Barcamp Singpore 4, Help put together the fifth edition of Barcamp in Singapore in collaboration with the IDA. Video made by the IDA here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjheG5J4itY
- October 2009, Japan Culture-Book club meetup at Woodlands regional library
- September 2009 Barcamp Hong Kong, Presentation on Travel in the Web Age. http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/travel2point0
- July 2009, Korea Culture-Book Club event at Woodlands regional library.
- July 2009, Ed-tech workshops for technical educators from Wuhan provice of China
- May 2009, Barcamp Bangkok,Presenations on Green ideas for home, Near field contact exchange
- May 2009, Barcamp Tokyo. Presentation on Technology Scene in Africa, Global Voices Online Project http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/global-voices-online-bringing-the-world-to-you-via-translation
- April 2009, Barcamp Kuala Lumpur, Teaching kids programming
- March 2009, Helped put up the Barcamp Singapore 3 at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singpaore
- February 2009, Blogout 2009, Singapore. Presentation – Adventures of a traveling blogger http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/adventures-of-a-traveling-blogger-1116201
- November 2008, Barcamp Saigon, Vietnam – Web services in Asia. Virtual Worlds
- October 2008 Republic Polytechnic, Singapore – Blogging and Social Media for Fun and Profit, Long term gains from blogging and such. http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/blogging-travel-making-money-etc-presentation-666746
- FOSS Asia 2008 Malaysia, Ideas on Object Taggin http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/tagging-real-world-objects
- July 2008 Global Voices Summit, Budapest, Hungary. Moderated a panel titled When The World Listens
- May 2008 Barcamp Chiang Mai, Thailand. Interesting web services from all over.
- February 2008 Edu-Tech Sessions for Wuhan Technical Educators, China
- February 2008 Facebook Developer’s Garage, Singapore – Facebook Apps from across Asia.
- October 2007 Pesta Blogger Indonesia. Why Indonesian bloggers should consider writing in English
- August 2007 Wikimania 2007, Taipei, Taiwan. Portable Wikipedia
- August 2007 Cambodia Blogger’s Summit. Keynote address on State of Blogging in Cambodia and the region. http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/cambodia-bloggers-summit
- July 2007 Bangkok, Thailand. Facebook for community Building, Thai Aids Treatment Group http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/mobile-flickr-and-mobile-blogging
- June 2007 E- Accessibility Forum, Singapore Polytechnic. Presentation on Rich Media Accessibility. Writeup at Web Standards Group Singapore http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/rich-media-accessibility
- December 2006 Global Voices Summit, New Delhi, India. Presentation on Cambodian online scene and community mobilization for education
- September 2006 Indian Blogger Summit, Chennai, India. Presentation on Web 2.0 in China, Japan and East Asia
- July 2006, Citizen Media Forum, Seoul
- March 2006 Yesterday.sg Heritage Blog Launch
- January 2006 Meet the publishers, Join the network. – A forum on digital publishing at National Library Board, Singapore.
- May 2005 Singapore Blogger Convention – Panel on social communities
- September 2004, Ftp Digital Media conference http://www.asiaevents.com.sg/dm04.htm
- May 2004, New Media Workshop for Central Agricultural Broadcasting and Television School, Beijing, Ministry of Agricultre, China
- July 2003: ActionScript Works 2003 http://www.asiaevents.com.sg/actionscriptsg.htm
- November 2002: Flash forward – Flash on mobile devices
- May 2002 New Media Workshop for Fijian Civil Service, Suva, Fiji
- 1998 to 2001, Multimedia workshops for Singapore’s ministry of defense
- 1997 Content development for Hong Kong Department of Education
- 1996 Workshops on Multimedia Design, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India