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General |
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What does this platform provide? |
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How to join? |
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Any subscription fee? |
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Which level is the TVnews program for?
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How much of TVnews would be adaptable for junior secondary students (F.1-3)? |
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How long would a student be expected to take to complete all the TVnews activities
in one week? |
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Please clarify which Tasks or Quizzes are included in the scoring scheme. |
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About application |
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What are the selection criteria for schools applying to subscribe to the program? |
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Is it possible to take on more than 100 schools for the TVnews program? |
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Can students use News Archive if their school's application to news practice is
not successful? |
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Can schools not accepted still benefit from the program? If yes, how? |
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More on submission percentage |
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There are different sections in News Practice, such as 'Before you watch', 'Watch',
'After watching' and 'My Learning Log'. Should all sections be finished to count
as finishing one News Practice? |
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My school has four Form 4 classes and they are split into five groups for English.
Can some of these groups join TVnews 07/08? How will the submission percentage of
these Form 4 students count?
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How can you ensure that schools honour what they have promised in terms of percentage
of exercises and quizzes to be finished? |
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About students and teachers accounts
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We were a member school for TVnews last year. Do we need to create new accounts
for S.2 - S.7 and teachers? |
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I have forgotten the password for my account. What can I do? |
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Technical issues |
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What are the basic requirements of our school's computer system for TVnews? |
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Our school is using Window Media Player 9 but we can't view the videos at school.
Why? |
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What does this platform provide? |
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HKEdCity's English Campus has developed this online, self-access English learning
platform for secondary school students. We use TVB Pearl's local English news to
design online News Practice exercises on vocabulary and listening. We have also set up a News
Archive housing all TVB Pearl's local English news clips and a forum for students to discuss Hong Kong's social issues with their peers.
For News Practice, school application is needed. For details, please go to
Demo Exercises. Awards Schemes are introduced to
encourage students to participate more and get higher scores in the exercises and
quizzes.
For News Archive and Student Forum, Student and Teacher Accounts at HKEdCity are
needed. For details, please go to here.
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How to join? |
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For News Practice, school application and a school account at HKEdCity are needed.
Please click here to apply. To apply
for a school account, please go to Join Us. Because of limited resources, there is a quota
for school application. Priority will be given to those schools who commit more
classes with students who can complete more exercises.
For News Archive, Student and Teacher Accounts at HKEdCity are needed. To apply
for accounts, please go to Join Us. There is no limit to the number of archive and
forum users.
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Any subscription fee? |
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No! No subscription fee is required. |
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Which level is the TVnews program for?
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The student target of TVnews is Secondary Three or above. |
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How much of TVnews would be adaptable for junior secondary students (F.1-3)? |
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Some lower form students are able to complete the News quizzes. English teachers
would know best which students have sufficient English skills to benefit from such
a challenge.
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How long would a student be expected to take to complete all the TVnews activities
in one week? |
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Students should take 30 - 45 minutes to finish all sections of each News Practice.
The time limit for students to finish a News Quiz is 25 minutes. It is estimated
that a student will need 60 - 70 minutes to finish all TVnews activities in a week.
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Please clarify which Tasks or Quizzes are included in the scoring scheme. |
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Records of 'vocabulary','listening exercise' and 'My learning log' of each News
Practice and all News Quizzes will be found in each student's 'My Profile' and teacher's
reports. Finishing the 'Watch' section of News Practice and News Quizzes will be included
in the scoring scheme. (Please also see question no.1 of 'More on submission percentage') |
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What are the selection criteria for schools applying to subscribe to the program? |
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The selection criteria are:
(a) the % of exercises and quizzes the school will expect their students to finish
(b) the number of classes that will join the scheme
(c) whether a teacher from the school will attend the briefing on the project on 29 Sept 2007
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Is it possible to take on more than 100 schools for the TVnews program? |
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The actual number of schools TVnews can serve depends on the usage rate of participating
students and the number of students from each participating school. |
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Can students use News Archive if their school's application to news practice
is not successful? |
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Yes, News Archive is open to all schools. Students and teachers must have accounts
at HKEdCity to enjoy the service. |
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Can schools not accepted still benefit from the program? If yes, how? |
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Yes, schools can apply for a school account at HKEdCity and create accounts for
their students and teachers to watch the news clips and join the forum in News Archive. |
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More on submission percentage |
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There are different sections in News Practice, such as 'Before you watch', 'Watch',
'After watching' and 'My Learning Log'. Should all sections be finished to count
as finishing one News Practice? |
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Finishing the 'Watch' of a News Practice will
be counted as finishing one News Practice. |
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My school has four Form 4 classes and they are split into five groups for English.
Can some of these groups join TVnews 07/08? How will the submission percentage of
these Form 4 students count?
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A new function for putting students into groups rather classes has been added to
TVnews 07/08. The submission percentage of exercises for these students will be
based on their groups rather than classes at school.
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How can you ensure that schools honour what they have promised in terms of percentage
of exercises and quizzes to be finished? |
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We will send Principals and English Panel Heads bi-monthly reports with their school's
performance. We will also contact any schools whose actual submission percentage
is significantly behind the initial target to find out reasons and solutions for
attaining the target. |
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About students and teachers accounts |
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We were a member school for TVnews last year. Do we need to create new accounts
for S.2 - S.7 and teachers? |
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If there are new students and teachers joining your school, new accounts should
be created for them to access TVnews. For enquiries, please consult your school
IT coordinator or email support@hkedcity.net |
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I have forgotten the password for my account. What can I do? |
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For students, please consult your school's IT coordinator to reset your password
at the school account admin page.
For teachers, please go to the top grey bar of HKEdCity and click 'Forget Password'.
Key in your HKEdCity's Teacher Account ID and the registered email address of your
account. The system will then send a new password to your registered email box.
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What are the basic requirements of our school's computer system for TVnews? |
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Please note if your system meets all requirements:
(i) Internet Explorer
(ii) Windows Media Player 9 or above
(iii) Flash Player 8
(iv) a headset with mic or PC with mic |
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Our school is using Window Media Player 9 but we can't view the videos at school.
Why? |
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Sometimes your school's firewall may be blocking certain ports for videos. Please
consult your school's IT coordinator or follow these steps:
Windows Media Services 9 Series uses two streaming media protocols to deliver content
as a unicast stream to clients:
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Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (for Windows Media Player Series 9 or above)
- Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol (for old version of windows media player)
You need to open this port in firewall to accept outgoing connections:
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554 (Out) |
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MMS |
TCP |
554 (Out) |
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