'The Education Project Asia" is a consultancy designed to offer support to International Schools in S.E.Asia ... particularly in the area of integration of ICT across the curriculum.

Apart from maintaining the "Shambles" website I also provides on-site support to schools : for example Singapore (ICT School Review), Brunei (conference on elearning), Malaysia (general ICT support to staff), Thailand and Hong Kong.

A three day visit to one school last term included a day with all staff on ICT across the curriculum (much of it 'hands-on'), two days working with individual teachers and their class in an ICT room and finally an evening presentation to parents on "Can we trust the internet?".

The modifications on the Shambles website continues in response to feedback ... new sections have been completed for Assessment Recording and Reporting, Information Literacy, Financial Planning

Try your own subject or interest area by clicking here :
| Headteacher or Senior Manager | School Counsellors/careers staff | School Nurses |
| Mathematics | English | Science | Information Technology | Geography | History | Religious Education |
| Art and Design | Design and Technology | Music | Modern Foreign Languages | Physical Education |
| SEN | ESL | The School Library | The ICT Technician Room | ... and (for primary / K-6) a 'Topics' area.

HELP : I'm just starting to build a webpage of resources that are relevant to I.B. International Baccalaureate at www.shambles.net/ib .... if you know of good websites then please add them to this page .... especially if relevant to individual subjects.

If you are looking for photographs (especially Asia)then some options are :

• a few of my own personal pictures that may be used for free for education providing an acknowledgement is made ... www.csmith.info/ (in an earlier life I taught photography) .. the "Fireworks over Hong Kong" section is particularly good.
• a dedicated area on Shambles at www.shambles.net/image_search/
• an area for photography teachers is at www.shambles.net/pages/learning/Photo/
• 58,000 high quality stock photographs are available free for non commercial use (schools) at www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Maths : Mr. Surowski's Home Page (China) http://search.saschina.org/surowski/
A Maths page at Shanghai American School ... the layout is straightforward and functional and there is considerable content behind it .. especially algebra.

Maths again : Sha Tin Junior School (Hong Kong) www.sjsmaths.org/
This Maths website (K-6 / Primary) is credited to Dave Cooper the Schools former maths coordinator who is rumored to now be somewhere in Vietnam. This is geared to the British National curriculum but should be of interest to most K-6 teachers. (and parents)

Film Club site on Dragonnet http://dragonnet.hkis.edu.hk/hs/technology/dnetflicks/
A previous newsletter mentioned a Spring 2004 student film festival that was held in Hong Kong ... the films are now available in full to view online from this site at Hong Kong International School.

.. and for this academic year : "We are planning a 48 hour Filmmaking contest with a number of high schools in Hong Kong on the weekend of November 19-21 and our annual Film Festival this year will be the week of April 11-16. We usually have 3 days of screenings to select finalists during the week, then finals on Saturday night (April 16)."
Submission for the Film Festival in April can include the 48 hour movies or other movies produced during the current school year in the following categories: 1) Animation, 2) Ads or Promotionals, 3) Short Films i.e., Drama or Comedy), 4) Music Videos, 5) Documentaries.
Visit the website or email Richard Friedericks rfriedericks@hkis.edu.hk for details.  

Not many schools have taken up the advertising options on 'Shambles' which is a surprise as our pages do come up high in search engines.

'Shambles' is a free service because of sponsorship and advertising ... your support would be appreciated .. email me for more details if interested csmith@csmith.info
 

Invitation to Register to participate in a free Online Conference 6-12 December 2004 on the topic of Educational Leadership.

To register, email the Online Conference Manager, Ms Debra Brydon, at: brydon@bigpond.net.au you will then be given the programme details and website address where it all will take place.

This type of continuing professional development opportunity is becoming a greater part of international schools inservice programmes; it can be cost effective (this one is free) and reduce disruption to students as the teacher does not have to be away from school. Teachers can also just visit and participate in the areas that are most highly relevant to them and not have to sit through everything.

Registered participants will be given detailed guidance on how to participate in an online conference so that they can benefit by experiencing not only the content but also the process ... helping them also to decide if this is a preferred personal learning style (PPLS).

This is a joint venture between The Specialist Schools Trust (UK) and iNet (International Networking for Educational Transformation).

During my travels around schools I'm surprised that I have not seen (heard) the internet being used to find and play 'sounds' across the curriculum ... often the results of searches are kept text based. Maybe because many students are still only comfortable in expressing themselves in the written word or visually.

But where they are used 'sound effects and music' seem to be top of the list ... still a well hidden resource, except for many history teachers, are the online archives of recordings of famous people. Have a look at (listen to) some of the links at www.shambles.net/pages/school/voices/

.... and for a regional experience .... listen to the sounds of Hong Kong at
www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/interactive/sounds/index.jhtml
 

Not many International School websites have an online Guestbook for people to sign ..... in fact why bother when most visitors just ignore them .... and, to be honest, are they ever read by anyone?

But with a little imagination, and clarification to visitors, a Guestbook could well become a learning resource for students and an information source for other visitors. The Guestbook on "Shambles" is graphical, using a world map for visitors to indicate their physical location as well as providing an opportunity to leave comments. This could well be fine tuned by asking visitors specific question to comment on rather than presenting them with just a blank page (I'll get around to this one day).

To see the "Shambles" graphical guestbook (guestmap) CLICK HERE