Group 1 Project Plan

Group 1
CHAN, Ho Ying (Ada)
CHEUNG, Chun Kay, Jaco
CHU, Chui Wa (Joyce)
TANG, Shirley Ann

• Defining a focus (audience is teachers, parents, students, others)? Who is it for?
The audience of this website is for the parents of the graduating Primary 6 students who will be starting their Form One education in September, 2006. The reason this group of parents was selected because their children will be the first level that will received the new "3+3+4" education system in the year 2009, and the parents need to be provided with more information about how and in what way this new curriculum reform will affect their children so that they can give better guidance to their children.

• Setting the scope of your Wiki – what is it about? What do you want to tell them?
The proposed Liberal Studies syllabus will be explained/extracted and formatted in an easy to read style for the parents. The website will cover or have the following items:
(i) content of the syllabus divided into categories
(ii) a discussion forum for parents to view their voices
(iii) an online survey to collect the view of the parents regarding the Liberal Studies curriculum
(iv) a page of useful and related links for further referencing, and
(v) a email link to contact us

• Emphasizing learning
–Identify what needs to be learnt and understood
Users will learn and understand the following after using the website:
(i) Understand the curriculum of the Liberal Studies and know about the three areas of studies
(ii) Be able to identify the three areas of studies of the Liberal Studies curriculum
(iii) Be able to understand the involvement and the purpose of the Independent Enquiry Studies (IES)
(iv) Be able to learn about the benefits that the Liberal Studies subject could bring about to students

• Setting realistic goals or questions for inquiry
Designing learning activities to reach goals set
The learning activities will be as follows:
(i) Users will read about the extracted content of the Liberal Studies curriculum formatted in an easy to read style. The lengthy content will be consolidated and divided by categories, so that users could read and understand the syllabus quickly and easily.
(ii) Users will have the option to participate in an online survey, so that they could voice their opinions regarding the syllabus.
(iii) Users will also have the option to participate in a Discussion Forum, so that they could collaborate with other users on their views and understanding of the curriculum.
(iv) A "Useful Links" page will also be provided for users to further pursue their studies in the topic.
(v) A "FAQ" page to help parents answer some common questions.
(vi) An email link is provided for users to collaborate with the website authors.

What tools could be linked to illustrate your points?
The WIKI Seed will be the main platform where the e-learning content resides. However, other tools will be used also. One of them is a free online surveying tool called, MY3Q.COM. It will be used to collect the views of the users regarding the Liberal Studies curriculum.

• Making an action plan
The action plan is as follows:
(i) Collect data and documents regarding the Liberal Studies curriculum.
(ii) Divide the work among the members. The division of labour is as follows:

CHAN, Ho Ying (Ada)
(a) Content related to the Area of Study 2
(b) Content related to Independent Enquiry Studies
(c) Graphics design of the website

CHEUNG, Chun Kay, Jaco
Content of the
(a) general information of Liberal Studies
(b) Reason will Liberal Studies was chosen to become a core subject
(c) How are Liberal Studies and ICT learning integrated.

CHU, Chui Wa (Joyce)
(a) Introduction and Purpose of Liberal Studies
(b) Set up questions for survey

TANG, Shirley Ann
(a) Overall website design and setup
(b) Content of Area of Study 1 and Area of Study 3
(c) Setup of the online survey at MY3Q.com

(iii) Setting target stages of implementation and completion stages.

• Identifying support systems
The support systems we will have would be help from…
(i) Dr. Sue Trinidad
(ii) Help from SeedWiKi
(iii) EMB website on educational reform
(iv) Help from the current Liberal Studies teachers of our schools.

• Getting ready for action
(i) First the WIKI website is setup the the structure of the different pages it requires.
(ii) Each member will find the information of the content assigned.
(iii) The content will be put into the WIKI and group members will gather together to discuss on how to refine the website, so that it would be attractive enough and easy enough for users to use.

• Anticipating challenges. What can you achieve by 30th June?
One of our greatest challenges is to figure out how to use the SeedWIKI to build our website. Since this is the first time we used this tool, we will need to learn how to manipulate the website.

By June 30th, we anticipate all the content of the website is completed and the website should be 90% complete. The only items we would still be working on would the decorative part, or just some minor change.