1. The DREAMs 葉 賜 恩 Yip Chee Yan S.T.F.A. Lee Shau Kee College 2000

2. The Road ahead Digital Road of Education and Administration into the Millennium

3. Digital: 4 Wide and wise use of IT by teachers and students for teaching and learning. 4 Information readily available from intranet and the Internet both at home and in school campus 4 Intra- and inter-school communication between teachers and students through the network

4. Road: 4 IT is going to reshape the delivery of instruction and bring about changes in education - transforming education in the industrial society to education in the information society 4 Discussion, cooperation and experience sharing are urgently needed to update our knowledge to put steps onto such frontier of educational practice.

5. Education 4 A lot of teaching resources is anticipated: –Training kits - for self study –Teaching materials - for demonstration in class, –Assessment tools - MC, conventional questions for self assessment. –Reference materials - dictionaries, syllabus –Further studies - links 4 Discuss: Who can help?

6. Administration 4 Replace clerical work done by teachers –SAMS (School Administration and Management System) –SPM-Net (Student Performance Monitoring Network) –CDS (Communication Delivery System) and Email system

7. Into the Millennium 4 Many countries are hurdling into the information era by equipping their younger generation and building up competencies of their citizens 4 We have to put in unprecedented efforts to ensure that our new generation can meet the challenge and demands of the information age.

8. The Teaching Materials Durable Reusable Expandable Accessible Modifiable

9. Durable 4 Can last for a number of years –Discuss: frequency of platform upgrade, Standardization.

10. Reusable 4 Can be linked by different ways for different use. –Discuss: teaching kits, teaching materials, assessment tools, reference materials...

11. Expandable 4 Can be integrated into a large system –Discuss: searched by search engines, by level, by subject, by topic, by...

12. Accessible 4 Can be accessed by different machines. –Discuss: PC, Mac, UNIX... 4 Can be accessed via the Internet. –Discuss: file size, download time, stored in floppy disk, in CD-ROM... 4 Can be accessed at low cost. –Discuss: cost of software for user/reader, freeware...

13. Modifiable 4 Can be modified by any user for his/her specific use –Discuss: cost of software for modification, ease of modification...

14. The platform: (discussion) 4 text (htm, txt, doc?) 4 bit map graphics (gif, png, bmp?) 4 vector graphics (?) 4 photographs (jpg ?) 4 video clips (mpg, avi ?) 4 3D worlds (wrl ?) 4 recorded sound (wav ?) 4 synthesized sound (mid ?)

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