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Seminar on Using Online Resources in English Learning and Teaching cum TVnews 2007/08 Award Presentation Ceremony
4th October 2008 (Saturday)
Organized by: English Campus, HKEdCity
25 Jan 2006
TVnews – a free, online, self-access English learning platform
Objectives Encourage students to learn English via
multimedia and authentic online resources Help students build their habit of viewing English
news Enrich students’ vocabulary and enhance their
listening skills Increase students’ awareness of social affairs in
HK Enhance students’ self-access learning and IT skills
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Feedback from teachers
Q1: Do you use ‘Teacher Ideas’ ( ‘After watching’ ) in class?
as writing ideas for follow up work good insight for us to make use of authentic materials insightful, stimulating good for discussion
Q2: How do you incorporate TVnews into your teaching?
as supplementary exercises at home as part of the continuing assessment marks On-going coursework assessment
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Feedback from teachers
Q3: Do you think TVnews provides effective English resources for teaching?
96% teachers agree
Q4: To what extent do you agree TVnews has helped students in the following aspects?
Average 88% teachers agree TVnews has helped students in: enhancing listening skills enriching vocabulary raising awareness in social affairs increasing initiatives to learn English
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Feedback from students
“I seldom watch television, especially English TV programmes. However, I like TVnews because I can learn a lot in just about 15 minutes. TVnews provided a chance for me to practise my listening and comprehension skills.” (Emily Sze, Carmel Divine Grace Foundation Secondary School)
“My listening skill has significantly improved after doing a series of TVnews practices. I have also acquired a lot of vocabularies and developed a habit of watching TV news.”(Rosy Tsang,Carmel Divine Grace Foundation Secondary School)
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TVnews 08/09
Two sections:
1. News Archive2. News Practice
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News Archive
a. Daily local English news• for easy access and frequent viewing
b. Student Forum • discussion topics provided
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News Practicea. online exercises on vocabulary and listeningb. 45 exercises and 15 quizzes c. updated every Monday and Thursday d. Start from 16 Oct 2008 to 1st June 2009, excluding
public holidays
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Exercise – Before you watch What you know (guiding questions) New Words and Phrases (with online dictionary)
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Exercise - Watch 15 questions based on the news clip (on listening
comprehension and vocabulary from the clip)
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Exercise – After watching
News Extra (linguistic items from the news) • Voting • Student Forum• Links• Teacher Ideas (for carrying out
writing and speaking activities)
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Exercise – My Learning Log guidelines and sample sentences are given to students for learnin
g reflection
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Quiz
a. Listening comprehension + vocabulary test (based on last three news practices)
b. Answer questions in 25 minutes
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Facilitate students’ self-directed learning1. Listening Hints + Useful links (online dictionaries, text
to speech, overseas online news)
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Facilitate students’ self-directed learning
2. Student Forum
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Facilitate students’ self-directed learning3. My Profile
a. Vocab book b. Performance c. My Learning Log
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Support teachers’ learning & teaching activities
1. Reports• each class' and student's participation and
performance of each exercise and quiz • total participation and scores of exercises & quizzes
in the accumulated total• Teachers can give feedback to each student or the
class online
(Only the submission of ‘Watch’ and ‘Quizzes’ will be calculated as submission rate.)
2. Teacher Ideas• ideas for in classroom activities
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Support teachers’ learning & teaching activities
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1. Admin function to grant access right for students and teachers to enter the TVnews platform. (Should the TIC change, please inform [email protected] as soon as possible.)
Administration for teacher-in-charge / panel-head
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2. ‘Organize My Groups’ to create special groupings of students for TVnews. (Should the TIC change, please inform [email protected] as soon as possible.)
Administration for teacher-in-charge / panel-head