Report on my previous experiences using IT for teaching or for learning

Regina Chan

I am neither a teacher nor engaged in the field of IT or IT-related industry. I am working in Hong Kong Sports Institute, with major responsibility to provide education and career support for personal development of elite athletes of Hong Kong. One of my major duties is to develop and provide an e-platform for them in order to facilitate their learning. Indeed, the world of technology is affecting every facet of our lives, and technology & learning can help education professionals and myself make it a vibrant, important part of curriculum development and learning. Everyday I used email, word processing, spreadsheet, the Internet and Intranet, graphic and PowerPoint for communication with athletes and coaches, creating reports and making presentation for management and teams at workplace; electronic journals, database, audio and video for study and leisure.

Since two years ago, working with IT department, I started to get involve in IT-related communication and education projects for example the set-up of mini Multi-media learning centre, set-up emails accounts, development of Athletes’ Portal project and interactive teaching and learning platform for our service targets. My role, as provider’s perspectives, is more focusing on development direction for what, why and how to address the learning needs of athletes with the technology integration, less hands-on experience on software operation. I think it is not enough. I experienced that as long as we are actively exposed to the applications of computer network technology, we become real learner and discover and construct our own learning experiences and the on-line environment also enhances communication between teachers and learners, between individual learners, perhaps peer communication and parent-and-child interaction.

That’s why I enroll this course. Ha Ha!