Progress

11 Sept 2004

Project Work Exhibition was held on Saturday 11th September 2004 at Canberra Secondary School. 28 project groups showcased their PW products to both international and local visitors. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all those involved in the PW exhibition. Your support was very much appreciated.

Photos from the Project Work exhibition are available here.

During this period, we will be administering teachers' and students' questionnaires for data collection and analysis. Every feedback is valuable to us and we deeply appreciate your contribution and cooperation.

We would like to thank all those involved in Oral Presentation 2004. Your support was very much appreciated by everyone in the research team.

Photos from Oral Presentation 2004 are available here.

Our team of researchers visited Bukit Panjang Gov. High, Canberra, Geylang Methodist, Ngee Ann and Zhonghua in Week 6. We thank all schools for having us in their PW classrooms. For photos of the school visits, please click on the links below.

The photos from the PW Visit to Bukit Panjang Government High School are available here.

The photos from the PW Visit to Geylang Methodist School are available here.

The photos from the PW Visit to Ngee Ann Secondary School are available here.

The photos from the PW Visit to Zhonghua Secondary School are available here.

More groups from Coral Secondary had their internal PW Presentations on 21st April 2004. The students did a fantastic job! We also paid a PW Visit to Nan Chiau High School and had an enriching time there as well. Well done students and teachers! We look forward to more PW Visits! See you at your schools!

The photos from the PW Visit to Coral are available here.

The photos from the PW Visit to Nan Chiau High are available here.

Groups FF1-FF5 from Coral Secondary had their internal PW Presentations on 14th April 2004. The students did a good job!

The photos from the PW Visit to Coral are available here.

Face-to-Face Meeting 2004 provided the opportunity for students from different schools, collaborating on the same project, to meet up with one another "in the flesh". This session familiarizes the students with each other. Held at the start of the one week term break, it was a good time for the students to discuss their various tasks and responsibilities during the vacation. In addition, students could also make plans for the coming Oral presentation on the 29th May. Good luck students!!

The photos from the Face-to-Face Meeting are available here.

The slides from the Face-to-Face Meeting are available here.

With the combined effort of NIE researchers, school teachers and TAs from the participating schools, an one-hour training session was organised to train the students in these schools in order to equip them with the basic skills of online collaboration using the Knowledge Community platform. Examples of the skills taughts are like "How to log on to KC", "How to read and post notes" and "How to collaborate in project groups".

The slides from the training session are available here.

The NIE team conducted a 3 1/2 hours training workshop for the participating teachers in Coral Secondary School. The workshop comprised two parts: the first part focused on some knowledge and skills which we think are helpful to the teachers in facilitating the students' online learning process. The second part of the workshop was dedicated to modifying the project write-ups crafted by teachers to be more suitable for the students, who will work on their projects based on the Students' Project Write-ups prepared by the teachers.

The slides for the workshop are available here.

The teacher participants crafted their project tasks online using the Knowledge Community environment from June to end of October 2003. These were the project tasks which the teachers have crafted:

14 June 2003

The third workshop on 14th June was conducted successfully. We were impressed by the enthusiasm displayed by all during the workshop. Photos were taken, and can be viewed here. Also, the slides from the presentation can be downloaded here.

2 training sessions for participating teachers were conducted on 10th and 17th May with very positive response. The sessions presented new perspectives on student-centred learning and PW, as well as familiarizing the teachers with the Knowledge Community e-learning system. A third session will be conducted on 14th June. The slides for the training presentation are available here. TrainingSession.ppt - 1.3 MB Powerpoint XP file 22 March 2003 The briefing on 22nd March was conducted successfully. For those who were unable to attend, the briefing slides and photos can be accessed here. Instructions for accessing Knowledge Community will be made available soon. Photos from the briefing Click here to download the briefing slides 17 March 2003 Having completed the preliminary Needs Analysis survey, the project team is now better equipped to identify key objectives in our next few phases, and to tailor the execution of those phases so as to achieve better synergy with the participants' abilities and needs. Back to top of page