Project CRUCIAL*

[*acronym for: The Centre for Resources and Understanding in Cross-curricular Instruction and Learning.]

First of all, please reflect on these questions

• Do teachers constantly seek resources for cross-curricular topics?
• Do teachers produce good materials for teaching & learning that others could benefit from?
• Do teachers have no time to attend endless meetings but want a quick & easy forum to develop professional ideas?
• Do students need to do more than study from text books, by involving themselves in education beyond the "school subjects"

The answer to your needs?

This project may be an answer to some of your needs, but we need your school's help!

Here's why...

For a few years, some schools have had limited Internet (World Wide Web) access through CUHK's School Net project. Unfortunately, this project, excellent though it is, is not primarily aimed at educational resource input or output.

Since 1986, schools have been overwhelmed with a need to teach cross-curricular subjects, e.g civic education, sex-education, drug-education, environmental education, anti-corruption education, but resources have been limited to Government-produced "kits" which do not always fit the crowded curriculum.

New teaching subjects and methods, e.g. Liberal Studies, and soon Integrated Science, among others, have suggested school-based resource development, but there is little time, and unless the resources can be shared, it will be inefficient to take time for everyone to produce their own materials.

CRUCIAL seeks to change that...

The Hong Kong Institute of Education, in association with sister institutions in Hong Kong will offer a Web-site for resources placement, development, and discussion of school-based development projects.

Initial areas of concentration for the CRUCIAL Project

Initially, depending on your responses, we will concentrate on building these study rooms:

• Health (including sex & drug education)
• Environmental Education
• Integrated Science
• Language across the Curriculum ; and
• Personal & Social Education (including civic & moral education)

However, if we get other inputs, then other "study rooms" will quickly be added to the CRUCIAL CYBER-COLLEGE.

CRUCIAL Project objectives

These are our objectives:

• To provide teachers with quality resources in 'difficult-to-cover' school curriculum areas, especially cross-curricular areas
• To provide an electronic publishing area for teachers' (& students?) produced resources, edited by the project team
• To provide a teacher-discussion forum for curriculum development discussion (not a free-for-all news-group, but more like a "letters to the editor" page)
• To provide research into and training for teachers in internet-based teaching & learning
• To mirror and inform about exciting World Wide Web sites where teachers & students can find valuable learning resources
• To develop the World Wide Web in Hong Kong as a cheap, easy learning resource tool which teachers and students will be keen to access from home and school as the Hong Kong Education Department begins to provide computers as general learning tools outside the confines of Computer Studies.

The Project Development Team

The initial project development team is : Eugene Adam, HKIEd.; Jeffrey Day, HKIEd; Ms.Angela Castro, HKU; Denis Donohoe, HKIEd.; Ms. Lo Mun Ling, HKU; Eric Tsang Po Keung, HKIEd., Roger Webb, HKIEd., together with three full time employed graphics/computer editorial specialists.

This project, delayed owing to internal re-organisation, is now fully funded.

Here's HOW you can help!

Please ask your colleagues whether they will be interested to support this very inexpensive resource development project, funded initially by The Hong Kong Institute of Education . We hope very soon to find other sources of funding through sponsorships.

If you wish your school to be associated with this project in its initial stages, please complete the form below or e-mail jrday@nc.ied.edu.hk

A simple Questionnaire

Yes, my school is definitely interested in the project:

Name of School:

Address:

A contact teacher's name would be:

Our school at present has : a modem link access to the Internet/World Wide Web

student use of computers outside of Computer Studies Lessons

Name of person completing the form:

E-mail: Telephone No: Fax:

since 26-08-97

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