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Video Conference Database
Video Conferencing (VC) has become a prevalent conference solution in the world today. Regardless of where you are, it allows you to have 'face-to-face' opportunities to meet up with people overseas and cost-effective. Video Conferencing allows connections with other schools or organizations throughout the world.
As a school we might never have chance to take all of our students to visit all the places in the world but through the video conferencing we can take our students to far away places. It helps to expand the scope of their world and provides opportunities for exercising various skills such as presentation skills, communication skills and collaboration skills. And one of the best parts of video conferencing is that students have so much fun that they don't even realize it's a learning experience.
| 18 November 2008, 5pm HK Time
Video Conference with Osnovna škola Horvati (Croatia) Focus: Cultural Exchange
Croatia is a southern Central European country borders with Slovenia and Hungary to the north, Serbia to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the east. The country is also known as the birthplace of a number of historical figures. Included among the notable people are three Nobel prize winners and numerous inventors.
Our students presented musical performances, Jazz dance and taught them some Chinese characters and our daily greetings in Mandarin whereas the other side educated our students on their traditional Croatian food ŠTRUKLI, traditional song in Croatian and general greetings in their mother tongue. At the end students from both sides had an informal chat on daily lives and hobbies. Overall was a great experience and opening our students to the outer world.
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| November 2, 2007, 8am HK Time
Video Conference with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Focus: Pascal’s Law; Under Pressure: To Pop or Not to Pop Students witnessed a series of experiments about the life in a Space Laboratory. Our students also tried out their experiments to see how the astronauts can be protected out there in the space. Students created their own astronaut using a water balloon and made special clothes for it. Furthermore, the NASA instructor also took the students into space station, which they use to train astronauts. Overall it broadened the students’ knowledge on astronauts’ job in space, dangers they might encounter and some facts on galaxy. |
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June 29, 2007, 10 am HK Time Video Conference with Maori Girls' Focus: music and cultural exchange Students from our schools performed on Chinese traditional dance and give out some fabulous musical and choir performances whereas the students from Maori Girl’s College educated our schools on their culture and sang their traditional Maori songs. |
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