Curriculum Vitae :

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Education

Ph.D., Information, University of Michigan (degree expected 2009)

M.S.I., Human-Computer Interaction, University of Michigan 2005
Thesis Topic: Collaborative Narratives - Collaborative Learning in the Blogosphere

B.A. (Hons.), Dip. Ed., English Literature, Nanyang Technological University 1998
Thesis Topic: From the Margins to the Centre - An exploration of the Singapore Identity in the theatre of Kuo Pao Kun

Awards

Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan (2005)

Local Teaching Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Singapore (1997)

Professional Experience

TechSmith Corporation, Okemos, Michigan, USA
Usability Intern Researcher with Magellon Bolen (Summer 2005)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Graduate Student Research Assistant, NEESR Education, Outreach and Training (2006)
Graduate Student Research Assistant, Science of Collaboratories Project (2004 - 2005)

Catholic Junior College, Singapore
Lecturer/Tutor for General Paper and English Literature (1998 - 2003)

Teaching Experience

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan (Fall 2006)
SI 504 Social Systems and Collections, ~50 students,
Faculty Instructors: Michael D. Cohen, Paul Edwards

Conference Presentations/Posters

Connections 2007, Philadephia, Pennsylvania (2007)
Presentation Title: "The challenge of online Social Media use during the 2006 Singapore general elections"

International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2006), Bloomington, Indiana (2006)
Poster Title: "Learning by tagging: Group knowledge formation in a self-organizing learning community "

Internation Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2005), Singapore (2005)
Presentation Title: "Collaborative Narratives: Collaborative Learning in the Blogosphere"

Publications

Bos, N., Zimmerman, A., Olson, J., Yew, J., Yerkie, J., Dahl, E., et. al. (2007). From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 16.

Yew, J., J., Gibson, F. & Teasley, S. (2006). Learning by Tagging: The Role of Social Tagging in Group Knowledge Formation". In, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2006.

Yew, J., Gibson, F. & Teasley, S. (2006). "Learning by tagging: Group knowledge formation in a self-organizing learning community". In, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences (Bloomington, Indiana, June 27 - July 01, 2006). International Conference on Learning Sciences. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 1010-1011.

Yew, J. (2005). "Collaborative Narratives: Collaborative Learning in the Blogosphere". In, C. K. Looi, D. Jonassen & M. Ikeda (Eds.) , Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation. Volume 133, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. (pp. 1023 - 1024). Amsterdam, NL: IOS Press.

Professional Membership

Secretary, Michigan-Ohio Computer Human Interaction (MOCHI) 2004 - present

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM - SIGCHI) 2004 - present

Member, International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) 2005 - present

References (available upon request)