This presentation will begin by exploring the way that ICT is changing young people's lives. Using 'mind maps' produced by students in a research project, Bridget will discuss what they show us about how young people understand computers in their world. Young people's rapid acquisition of ICT skills, and the importance of mobile telephones in youth culture, are two factors that provide schools with an exciting new opportunity. ICT clearly has the potential to increase motivation for learning. It also has the potential to increase the range and depth of learning. Drawing on research knowledge about learning, Bridget will suggest strategies, which teachers of English in Hong Kong could use to transform students' learning. This will lead to discussion of the need to change the roles of 'teacher' and 'student' and change schools as organisations, including their use of time and space. The presentation will end with suggestions for a framework for planning and implementing whole school change of this kind.

Type of session: Keynote Lecture
Target audience: Primary/ secondary

In this workshop Bridget will begin by demonstrating how the framework put forward in the previous session can be used to identify barriers to change and plan strategies for overcoming them. She will explain how the teacher s in a school could work together, using 'activity theory', to change the school radically and make it possible to use ICT more creatively and effectively for teaching and learning. Participants will then be invited, working in pairs or small groups, to use the framework to identify barriers to change in their own schools and strategies for overcoming them. They will be asked to produce 'posters' to report back on their work in a plenary session, and these will be displayed at the end of the workshop, and later used in a report on the conference to be published on the Interface 2001 web site.

Type of session: Workshop
Target audience: Primary/ secondary

In this second workshop, the focus will move from the school as a whole to the English classroom. Bridget will open the session by talking about the kind of strategies teachers need to adopt to integrate ICT in their teaching of English. She will then demonstrate web-sites developed for young people in the UK which could be used as part of English classes in Hong Kong. Two examples will be given, one more suited to primary schools and the other to secondary schools. The participants will then be asked to work in pairs to develop plans and strategies for using one of these web-sites in their own teaching. As in the previous session, they will be asked to produce posters and report back to a plenary session. The posters will be displayed after the session and afterwards published on the Interface 2001 web site.

Type of session: Workshop
Target audience: Primary/ secondary

This lecture will consider the nature of multimedia authoring identifying three key features: mixed media, non-linear structures and interactivity. It will explore how developing their own presentations makes students engage with language in a creative way. They may be communicating factual information, telling a story or making a computer game. This work encourages different types of language use within a multimedia context of images and sound. The process is collaborative involving discussion, role play and design. This lecture will be annotated by examples of student work.

Type of session: Keynote lecture
Target audience: Primary/ secondary

This seminar will pick up some of the issues raised in the keynote lecture. It will look at the practical implications of teaching multimedia authoring in support of ELT. It will offer strategies for helping students to consider language, design, non-linear planning and interactivity. It will cover teacher planning, curriculum fit and assessment. The seminar will involve paper exercises in pairs.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary/ secondary

This practical session will give teachers a taster of multimedia authoring using Hyperstudio. It will involve making multimedia pages of text, images and sound and will offer teachers the opportunity to begin planning a multimedia project for their students.

Type of session: Workshop
Target audience: Primary/ secondary

Lower primary students have active imaginations, but often lack the basic fundamentals of story writing needed to create dynamic and creative stories. Creative Writer 2 is a user friendly writing program ideal for young writers. There are many possible applications of this program in an IT lesson and in this seminar, the use of Creative Writer 2, as a character development tool will be discussed.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

In this session, I will share my experience as a parent on how to support my five-year-old daughter to make use of 'limited' IT knowledge and skills to work towards self-directed learning. A collection of my daughter's computer work will be used to illustrate her views of IT and language and the potential of IT to support self-directed learning. I will conclude that children are born with great potential to learn independently if appropriate learning conditions are created for them.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Parents, teachers

Lecturer, Department of English,
Hong Kong Institute of Education

Teacher of English
La Salle Primary School

In this session, we will share with you how a primary English teacher transforms her P.6 classroom into a dynamic and interactive IT-based environment that supports task-based learning. Through critical reflection on the process of planning, resourcing, and implementation, we will suggest that teachers' awareness of the pedagogical values of IT is a key factor in maximizing the potential of IT in teaching and learning.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

& Queenie Yung Suk Kee

A web-based student personal profiling system is being developed under a research project entitled Using Information Technology to Cater for Individual Differences. This is a collaborative project between HKIED, Ho Lap Primary school and CDI. In this session a live lesson will be conducted in which twenty P. 3 pupils will learn English in front of computers. The teacher, as a facilitator, divides the pupils into different ability groups for different graded tasks. Pupils will also provide feedback into the profiling system where teachers can interact with pupils. After the lesson, there will be a Q & A session.

Type of session: 60 minute lesson Demonstration
Target audience: Primary

Have you thought of using art with grammar? Can you teach and learn grammar creatively using IT? If you are looking for the answers to these questions, then this presentation is for you!

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

Some general strategies to help you plan computer projects. "Start small, start simple" as illustrated by these two projects. They are small and manageable for S1 & 2 remedial class. Students complete their projects, practise their computer skills as well as reinforce their classroom lesson. The important part of teaching with computers is not the computers -- it's the teaching and the planning.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Secondary

Teacher of English
British Council

PowerPoint has several useful features, which make it not only a powerful tool for giving presentations but also a useful teaching aid in the classroom. In this workshop you will learn how to use some of these features to produce a series of slides which will tell a story using pictures, text, speech bubbles, navigation buttons and animation effects. This type of slide show could be used for creative writing lessons with primary and secondary classes.

Type of session: Workshop on Sunday
Target audience: Primary / secondary

'Montage will show you how you can take your learners on a journey through projects - projects you can adapt for your class, projects you can join, projects you can start and bring other learners into from around the world. All the topics, all the fun, all the educational value you could hope for - and all in a safe and user-friendly place. Montage means magic!

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: All

Head of Department of English, Singapore International School

Participants will be shown how pupils create a scene based on a given topic using the software 'Story Book Weaver' and thereafter write a story based on what they have created.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

This workshop aims to show teachers how easy it is to develop interactive language activities for the web. We'll look at some free resources on the Internet, which allow teachers to create interactive activities and discuss how we can use them for English language learning. In the hands-on session, we'll use the freeware Hot Potatoes to develop crossword puzzles, matching exercises, etc. and load them to the Internet.

Type of session: Workshop
Target audience: Primary & secondary

This workshop aims to show teachers how easy it is to develop interactive language activities for the web. We'll look at some free resources on the Internet, which allow teachers to create interactive activities and discuss how we can use them for English language learning. In the hands-on session, we'll use the freeware Hot Potatoes to develop crossword puzzles, matching exercises, etc. and load them to the Internet.

Target audience: Primary & secondary

Class web sites with a mailing list, databases, bookmarks and file
sharing provide great opportunities for promoting learning beyond the
classroom. It may sound complicated and expensive to set up, but in fact
it is easy and free. In this session we will look at examples of how
these sites can be used and see the steps involved in setting one up.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Secondary

The session will use the topic of Knights and Dragons to show how Power Point can be used to set the context for a lesson. I will then show how slides can be used as templates for student to do creative writing. Participants will then have the opportunity to create their own slides.

Type of session: Workshop
Target audience: Primary

In face of our heavy workload, how can we use IT effectively? Two heads are better than one. The development of resource banks is the key. Come and see how a school can derive benefits from such collaborative efforts among colleagues.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

The presenter introduces a Webquest lesson, which uses Internet based research sites to help students create an illustrated travel journal for a virtual journey. Students will gain skills in descriptive writing, narrative writing, web research techniques, word processing techniques, graphic imaging techniques, design, and publishing. This lesson is an integrated computer-based lesson (IT, English and Social Studies).

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

Beginning with little basic knowledge on IT, pupils made use of the Internet and word processing software to produce a class fruit dictionary. By integrating IT in English learning, both teachers and pupils explored a wealth of teaching and learning activities in IT. Through searching the Internet and using word processing for writing, pupils developed writing skills gradually. They also become more active, independent and creative learners.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

The presentation is based on an experimental class-based interactive writing project with local junior secondary schools. The project involves teachers and students writing together as a group or as partner via the electronic network. The lesson involves three stages: (1) Initiation;(2) Discussion; (3) Conferencing. The project is based on the concept of process-writing and aims at developing an online writing model for students to improve their writing.

Target audience: Primary/ Secondary

This workshop informs teachers how easy it is to create their own web site - iHOUSE, for personal use or for teaching purposes. The workshop is divided into three sections:

Participants will be given free web space and e-mail account (an iHOUSE). You are encouraged to bring along saved files and photos (in JPEG or GIF. under 200 KB) for the hands-on session.

Target audience: Primary/ Secondary

A 20-minute Internet lesson will be conducted to give participants a hands-on experience of how IT can be integrated into English lessons. Examples of classroom materials, techniques and strategies will be provided. User-friendly programmes and freeware will be introduced and ways of designing interactive worksheets will be demonstrated. Participants will also get an idea of how to build their own class website and integrate e-worksheets to provide students with opportunities to practise English.

Target audience: Secondary

Using the coursebook day after day can be boring for both teacher and students. This presentation describes how a teacher has enlivened her lessons with primary 6 pupils by using the Internet as a resource to provide access to authentic material and used the software Textease to provide frameworks to support pupils' writing. The teacher developed integrated tasks that involved pupils in using the Internet to finding a suitable flat for clients with different needs, presenting information about the flat and writing persuasive texts about the flats. Pupils used IT skills to support language skills in persuasive writing and presentation.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

The Internet is said to provide instant access to a treasure trove of information at the touch of a few keystrokes. But how can teachers utilise the Internet effectively as a resource to support the teaching and learning of English? The WebQuest strategy provides a potential framework for teachers to construct focused and meaningful tasks that support students of all ages and abilities to not only find information from the Internet but also to transform and use that information. This involves developing and using valuable information literacy skills. This workshop will provide colleagues with an opportunity to participate in WebQuests, consider their underlying principles, features of design and use, and evaluate critically their benefits and limitations.

This appears to be a question of increasing interest to primary teachers of English. The presenter will analyse, compare and discuss advantages and limitations of the features of the two media. Examples and features of ebooks that are particularly suitable for L2 learning will be highlighted. The session will also include suggestions for how ebooks may be used effectively in different classroom settings.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

Education Technology Consultant and Trainer,

This session will focus on creating contextualized, authentic learning tasks for students using multimedia authoring and presentation tools. Teachers will experience different techniques for creating or helping students to create authentic interactions using English in real life situations. 3D characters, scene backgrounds, text and voice audio will be combined to create compelling stories (desktop adventures).

Target audience: Secondary /Primary

Problem-based learning (PBL) challenges students to "learn to learn" working cooperatively to solve real ¡Vworld problems. Success with PBL, however, depends largely on whether students have been sufficiently prepared to take on such roles as inquiry seekers and collaborative team players in the classroom. Teachers interested in using PBL in their classrooms must be prepared to teach 'learning to learn' strategies that will guide, but not give students the resources needed to work on learning activities. In this paper we address the following issues: challenges students and teachers face when working with PBL; concerns teachers have regarding resource-based learning using the WWW; and web resources and tools that support student learning in PBL. The presenters will share materials developed for a PBL workshop for secondary students.

Type of session: Presentation on Saturday
Target audience: Secondary

Buddhist Bright Pearl Primary School & The British Council

This presentation will concentrate on practical examples of a variety of differing uses for IT.This presentation will concentrate on practical examples of a variety of differing uses for IT. It will includ ideas for using digital cameras, online resources for teacher development, practicalities of materials creation, using IT without class access to computers, tips for record keeping and ideas for evaluation and assessment of IT use. The ideas showcased will be illustrated with actual examples from a local school. The presentation aims to share various practical applications across a broad spectrum of IT use.

Target audience: Primary/ Secondary

Head of Department of Interactive English

The purpose of the presentation is to share insights gained from using a Multimedia Portfolio as a framework for ESL teaching and learning. The instructional design for this IT-assisted ESL program is the result of investigation into the problems facing students and teachers in ESL classrooms in Hong Kong. The program is aimed at alleviating many of the problems encountered by the stakeholders by enriching the learning experience and promoting learner autonomy through use of IT-based cognitive tools.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Secondary

You've just bought some software that looked great during the demo. A week later it arrives on your desk. As you look at it you say to yourself "Will this software a) sit on a technician's desk for months b) not run on the network c) give error messages in a language you guess is English or d) be installed and running smoothly a couple of days later?" This practical overview shows how anyone can always get to option d.

Target audience: Primary/ Secondary

In this practical 'hands-on' session participants will build a website and have it available on the internet before the end of the 90 minutes session. Participants will gain a user-friendly IT skill, which they can use with their students (and colleagues). Participants will be able to continue working on their site from school or home after the conference providing they can connect to the internet. Experience using Microsoft's Internet Explorer is required and it would help (but not essential) if members could think about what they would like their site to be about. It could be a family site, personal, support an interest/ hobby or something completely fictitious.

Type of session: Workshop on Saturday
Target audience: Primary/ Secondary

Visual prompts are commonly used in the classroom to help students produce and retain language. This presentation looks at using computer graphics to develop activities which will help students to improve their writing and speaking skills. I will give examples of different writing and speaking activities, from text reconstruction to slide shows, look at the range of software available and the technical skills required by teachers and students, and suggest guidelines for using graphics successfully in class.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary/ Secondary

Many teachers are reluctant to use the software the school has bought because they have no experience of using information technology in front of their students. Common fears include the software going wrong, and a lack of confidence in teaching techniques for lessons incorporating software. In this workshop we will look at practical classroom techniques for making your English language teaching software programs a success with your students. We will look at a range of popular programs and at different classroom set-ups, from the one-computer classroom to the multimedia lab.

Target audience: Primary/ Secondary

Web page co-ordinator

The presenter will introduce yponline. The session will include a visit to the site, an investigation of its the zones. Specific aspects of its content will be highlighted and an outline of feedback on schools' use will be provided. The session will conclude with open discussion of its potential for use in English language classrooms.

Target audience: Primary/ Ssecondary

This session is suitable for both primary and secondary teachers who are unfamiliar with using the Internet as a materials resource. What are the issues to consider when using the Internet as a source of materials? Finding materials on the Internet will be illustrated using search engines, web directories, webrings and metasearch engines. The adaptation of Internet materials for teaching purposes will be illustrated and copyright issues discussed.

Target audience: Primary/ secondary

Target audience: Primary/ secondary

Students whose first language is Chinese often find English composition difficult and burdensome. By using IT - not as a presentational tool, but as a stimulus - to lessen the obstacles of writing/spelling and create interesting subjects to write about, teachers can more effectively generate enthusiasm for English writing in students than with pen and paper.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary

Helping students to develop their ability in writing is always an important goal for English teachers. However, a large number of local Chinese children find writing, especially writing in English a difficult task. The purpose of this session is to share with teachers of English ways to motivate our children to write extensively and wholeheartedly through using mindmaps, pictures, big books, storybooks and the Internet.

Type of session: Presentation
Target audience: Primary