1. The Concluding part …
By C K Lau

2. Two issues for us to answer:
The Sustainability Issue (this school)
Will it be entertained by language teachers and other teachers?
How to fit it into the school plan?
The Promotion Issue (our role as a COE)
Will language teachers in Hong Kong buy the concept?
Atmosphere, Skill, Tool, Planning in Advance
Promotion Scheme and refresher training course
YES!

3. What we have achieved at Own-school level
Ms. Chan’s Blog
Book Report Writing
Environmental Pioneers
Hand in Hand in Hong Kong
F.6 Students News Commenting
Poetry-Writing Class
Prose-writing Class
Liberal Studies

4. What we have achieved at Own-school level
2 subject departments, showed willingness to use web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning next year:
- Chinese language department
- Liberal Subject department
Change in school culture

5. What we have done so far at Territory-wide level
We have provided training to more than 1,000 teachers.
We have created a HKEdcity Platform and welcome by users.
We have produced successful cases of using blogs in language learning. We have launched a Teacher Blog Promotion Scheme and made some interim assessment. The result is positive.

6. What we have done so far at Territory-wide level
Our effort coincides with the directions of the the Third Strategy on Information Technology.
The idea of using web 2.0 in language learning is widely received via different media..

7. Our examples testify that they form learning communities
They empower students to learn in a way previously unavailable
Students act as both learners and teachers
Students can choose where to learn, what to learn and what to write
They involve students, teachers, parents and other people to create ad-hoc learning communities
Values come when using content in creative, interactive and meaningful way
Teachers need not use artificial effort the enforce the practice

8. What we can do next Disseminate cases of good practices to teachers
Launching more sophisticated Promotion Schemes to promote using Blogs and other web 2.0 tools for language learning and teaching with the following foci:
Forming Student learning community
Forming school learning community
Using web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching
Further developing the HKedcity Platform
More training to language teachers – the idea of learning 2.0 in the age of web 2.0

9. End of Presentation
Thank You!