DGS Headmistress Mrs. Stella Lau welcomed participants and the SWIFT Forum was declared officially open. 

Keynote Speech by Professor Nancy Law, Faculty of Education, HKU (PDF)

• Self-Directed Learning in Science
• importance of students, teachers, school heads and in particular networking
• open lessons for  sharing and pedagogical improvement
• cluster meetings with collaborative involvement between schools 
• website :  http://sdls.cite.hku.hk/

Keynote Speech by Professor Wong Po Choi, Director of IT, Hang Seng Management College (PDF)

• advantages of self-directed learning
• adopting the right attitude to learning (LQ)
• ways to motivate teacher transition to IT-based learning
• from e-learning to u-learning
• aim of learning is to be a blessing to society

In-house Sharing by Diocesan Girls' School

Mobile Learning: from Planning to Implementation (PDF)

• infrastructure, curriculum, professional support and reflection of 1 student: 1 iPad programme  
• sharing of practices using  iPads by the English, Physics, Geography and Computer Departments
• The Fourth Strategy on IT in Education : http://ite4.fwg.hk:8080/ite4/Eng/content/index.html

In-house Sharing by Nanyang Girls' High School

A Day in the Life of a Nanyang Teacher and Student (PDF, video)

• curriculum based on the principle of 3Es : Exciting, Engaging and Empowering learners.
• Pedagogical design in the use of iPads as learning tools in lessons
• Substitution,  Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition (SAMR)
• sharing of good teaching practices in Physics, Geography, Humanities, Chinese and Chemistry 
• 4th Master plan of ICT by MOE Singapore : http://www.slideshare.net/janehbasto/singapore-ict-education

Q  & A: methods of showcasing students' work submitted online with parents were broached.

Report of Day 2 Programme

Report of Day 3 Programme