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[Haggen So <haggenso AT gmail.com>]

Dear All,

Here comes the formal announcement. Please come if you can make it. It
is an important event for CCHK as well as for Hong Kong.

Launch of the Liberal Studies Creative Archive
An Open and Shared Educational Resource for the New Senior Secondary
School Curriculum

Date:   9th September 2009, Wednesday
Time:   4.30pm – 5.30 pm
Venue:    Convocation Room, Room 218 Main Building, HKU
Organiser:   Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU

Purpose:  Modeled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s
Creative Archive, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and other media
organizations will license seed materials, including text, audio and
video content, to create a Liberal Studies Creative Archive in support
of teachers and students of Liberal Studies.

Using Creative Commons (CC), an innovative framework for the legal
sharing of copyrighted materials, the Journalism and Media Studies
Centre  invites  members of our creative and information industries
to support this novel approach to help develop  open educational
resources for  our teachers  and students.

Distinguished panelists will share their views on:-

1. The importance of building teaching resources for Liberal Studies
2. How legal sharing of educational resources will foster creativity
in our education system
3. How the creators of legal sharing of educational resources will
empower teachers and students in  developing course materials for
Liberal Studies

Panel Participants:

Mr. Kenneth Chen  Undersecretary for Education, EMB
Mr. Gordon Leung  Deputy Director of Broadcasting RTHK
Mr. Peter Cheung  Deputy Director of the Intellectual Property Department
Mr. Johnny Cheung  Commissioner for Outreach, Wikimedia Hong Kong
Mr. Chitat Chan  Assistant Project Manager, Centre for Research in
Interdisciplinary and Liberal Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of
Education

Moderators:

Prof. Ying Chan  Director and Professor of the Journalism and Media
Studies Centre, Hong Kong University
Mr. Pindar Wong  Co-Head, Creative Commons Hong Kong

Regards,

Haggen

2009/8/31 Mr. Pindar Wong <pindar AT pacific.net.hk>:
> Dear All,
>
> Please mark your calendar for the 9th September 2009 (09/09/09)  2.30pm.
>
> CCHK's planning to make a major announcement with respect to tomorrow's
> launch of 'Liberal Studies': one of four required subjects of the New Senior
> Secondary School Curriculum.
>
> Further details will be announced closer to the 9th, but if you've material
> that you believe will help the deployment of Liberal Studies then we'd love
> to hear from you!
>
> Please  email Dr. Haggen So cc'ed above and we'll see if we can include you
> in our programme. :)
>
> For an overview see here:-
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Senior_Secondary_Liberal_Studies
>
> Stay tuned ...
>
> Pindar
>
>

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