Chiu Sheung School (CSS) is an
aided primary school located in Pok Fu Lam. CSS has 12 classes in 6 class
levels, with a total of 300 students. It is a Non-native student designated
school since 2007, with a majority of non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students. Home
countries of the students and their parents include India, Pakistan,
Philippines, Nepal, etc.
Quick Start from Ground Zero and End
with Great Achievements within 2 Months
To have a quick start, CSS
engaged WebOrganic for a 8-week pilot project. After the project, teachers
become confident in new ways of teaching. TA / TSS are trained to support
mobile learning devices and Social Network communication. School identifies the
detail requirements for infrastructure upgrade. School’s e-Learning roadmap is
drafted. The key outputs are:
1.With 30 iPad
and 1 Cisco AP, a stable e-Learning environment was created at CSS for 4 weeks.
2.30 Maths and
English lessons were conducted using iPad, within a 4-week try-out period.
Involved 3 teachers and 2 class levels.
3.Seamlessly
integrate lesson plans with 10 iPad apps through 4 co-plan and training
sessions.
4.Received 160+
YouTube pageviews and 140+ Facebook “Like” from students, parents, teachers,
alumni, and general public. (as of 7th May 2012)
5.School board approved funding proposal for e-Learning infrastructure upgrade and acquisition of e-Learning devices. A 3-year e-Learning roadmap is created.
Reference
For more information, please visit CSS’s
website, Facebook, and YouTube sites as below:
Background My consulting team did an eLearning Pilot Project with Chiu Sheung School (CSS) in March 2013. (Reference: e-Learning Consulting - Reference Case of Chiu Sheung School - Fast-Tracking e-Learning Enablement Project ). It was a quite successful one. We even received a compliment letter from her Principal, Mr. Chim Hon Ming. We were invited to set up a booth to introduce our organization, WebOrganic, during the school's parent day on 12 July 2013. Booth and School Hall Screen Apart from setting up a booth at the school entrance, the school hall main projector screen was used to display our organization's introduction, our project videos, as well as some videos on the positive use of the Internet. We did receive greatest exposure to parents on such day. I deeply thanks CSS for their kindness and respect to our work.
Delighting Parents Knowing that parents may need to wait before meeting class teachers, we prepared a leaflet of QR code for killing time. There were 20 QR codes, arranged as 4 channels with different themes. At the back of the leaflet, it was the brief introduction of WebOrganic. The first channel was about the videos of our iPad e-Learning Pilot Project at CSS. The second channel is to get benefits from the Internet (e.g. using Taobao to save money) and avoid troubles (e.g. setting up agreement with children on Internet usage). Channel 3 is about eLearning projects we did for other schools. The last channel is in Cantonese which is about the positive use of the Internet (e.g. avoid Internet addition).
The feedback of the leaflet was quite good. All the printed copies were distributed out at around 10am. Since we just set up the playlist for videos created by other users, we cannot track how many parents watched such videos through our QR leaflet. Hope this will improve in the future. Display Board There was one display board about eLearning. It was great that CSS formed a eLearning taskforce to promote eLearning, and she obtained resources to upgrade her wireless infrastructure as well as acquiring 30 iPad to start their eLearning journey. I believe we played an important part to accelerate the whole process.
Special Remarks Thanks for the Open Lesson at HKIEd Jockey Club Primary School (Ref: e-Learning Consulting - Open Lesson at Jockey Club Primary School ) early this year, which kicked start our conversation with CSS. Special thanks to Mr. Brian Tsang to make my wish came true. I wished to play basketball at school playground because I always saw students playing happily during their P.E. lessons. Finally I played basketball with Nic, Samson, and 7 non-Chinese-speaking (NCS) students from CSS. We also played volleyball and skateboard. Our sweat marked a beautiful full stop to the engagement with CSS this academic year.
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