eLearning Consortium ELC Education 2.9 Conference (Feb 2013)

On 23rd February, 2013, eLearning Consortium (eLC) held “Education 2.9 Conference-Next Step in e-Learning Revolution” in Cyber Port. Eddie Ng Hak-kim GBS, JP, the Secretary for Education, was invited as guest for opening speech. Our WebOrganic CEO, Mr.Erwin Huang, delivered the welcome remarks. 

The event was divided into four sessions, including “School Infrastructure Readiness”, “Content and System Readiness”, “Student and Parent Readiness” and “Teacher Readiness”.

I was one of the speakers on that day. My sharing topic was “Bicycle and Tricycle of e-Learning”, which included the role of parents during implementation e-Learning programmes, as well as parental support offered by WebOrganic.

It was my first time to have over 100 audience. I got short notice for this event as well. This time I got 3 days notice (not that bad) but was super busy with my first consultancy project in WebOrganic. Luckily, I had Nic to test out the contents with me. It was important to keep things simple and insightful.

 The speech was regarded as "Make or Break" my career, since it will be delivered to 100+ people and my CEO as well. I did rehearsed for a few times in order to achieve a smooth presentation flow.

Originally my speech was in the morning when even more audience was there. However, due to overrun by previous speakers, mine became the first after lunch. Good and bad... Good was that I got more time to rehearse; Bad was that I forgot a lot of my scripts in the morning (maybe because I was quite attentive to process what I heard from other speakers).

Overall speaking, this was a great experience for my career. Hope in one day, I will deliver a speech in front of a million people.

The seminar speakers are listed below:

• Mr. Charles Mok , Legislative Councilor – (IT);
• Ms. Winnie Wong, Head of Marketing, HK Cyberport Management Company Limited;
• Ms. Leona Wong, Executive Director, HK Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA); Mr. She Mang, Chief Curriculum Development Officer, IT in Education;
• Mr. Victor Cheng, Executive Director, Hong Kong Education City;
• Mr. Ip Kin Yuen Legislative Councilor – (Education Constituency);
• Dr. Allen Wong, SVP, Product Development and Management, Consumer Group, HKT Education Limited;
• Mr. Li Chi Shing (IT Panel); Po Leung Kuk, Chee Jing Yin Primary School, (won in 2012 Chief Executive's Award for Excellence in Education (information Technology in Education); Ms. Becky Lo, Education Lead, Public Sector Group, Microsoft Hong Kong Limited;
• Ms. Deon Man, Baptist Lui Ming Choi (Shatin Wai) Primary School; Cheung Kwok Che, Legislative Councilor (Social Welfare);
• Mr. Jeff Ng, Programme Manager, WebOrganic;
• Mr. Ha Chi Hung, IT Panel, True Light Middle School of HK, the Hong Kong Institute of Education;
• Dr. Kong Siu Cheung, Head of Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, Hong Kong Institute of Education the Hong Kong Institute of Education Jockey Club;
• Mr. Chu Tsz Wing, The HKIEd Jockey Club Primary School;
• Mr. Jimmy Lam, Head of Information Technology Department;
• Mr. Andy Li, IT Panel, Salesian School;
• Mr. Wong Kin Wai, Albert, Chairman of Association of IT Leaders in Education (AiTLE)

For more information, please visit ELC's website: http://elearning.org.hk/