Anne
Thanks very much for your response and very good ideas! Will definitely
ensure that the pages contain these sections too.
Am on the hunt for photos for the pages - do you have any of your
students engaged in learning Chinese or in China?
Regards
Katharine
In message <000f01c44199$1af9d980$979c2b52@y0j4q7>, Anne Martin
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Katherine
>Thats great -
>on subheadings it would be useful to have a section on partner schools in
>China to share experiences on setting up and how we develop the
>relationship.
>I would also like to have a section on accreditation, GCSE, ABC -could also
>contain news on the new languages ladder. We hope to pilot this at Ashcombe
>School.
>Regards
>Anne Martin
>The Ashcombe School
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Katharine Carruthers" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:35 PM
>Subject: Chinese Network
>
>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I am writing to tell you about the project to develop a Chinese set of
>> webpages on the Specialist Schools Trust website. These pages will be
>> called The Chinese Network. There will be news from schools teaching
>> Chinese, news of events, sharing and exchange of teaching resources (an
>> opportunity for teachers to upload and download lesson plans and
>> resources), weblinks, pupils' pages etc.
>>
>> The Network will complement the ALL e-mail forum, which I would say has
>> been well used over the last few weeks for discussion. The Network's
>> main focus will be on the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in
>> secondary schools, but it will aim to be as inclusive as possible and so
>> will also cover community schools, FE, AE, HE and primary education.
>>
>> I am working on behalf of the Trust to develop these pages (not, I
>> hasten to add, the technical side, but the content!). I hope they will
>> be lively, useful and a valuable resource for all those involved in the
>> teaching of Chinese. However, I will need lots of ideas and input from
>> everyone.
>>
>> In the first instance, I have the following requests:
>>
>> 1. The name for the webpages in English will be Chinese Network. I
>> thought that the Chinese name could be zhong1wen2wang3. However, I would
>> welcome feedback on this. If anyone has any different ideas or
>> suggestions or agrees with my proposal, then all feedback is very
>> welcome. Finding the best name at the outset is very important!
>>
>> 2. As far as I understand at the moment, the header of each webpage will
>> have a photograph and there will be a couple of smaller photographs down
>> the side of each page (these photos will be the same on each page; there
>> won't be different photos on each page). I think the smaller photographs
>> will be a semi-permanent feature of each page and that the header
>> photograph will be changed regularly.
>>
>> Do any of you have any suitable photographs? It would be good to have
>> pictures of learners involved in some exciting activity in the classroom
>> or putting their learning into action in China. Any digital pictures
>> any of you could send me would be great. The Trust has an official
>> permission slip which I would need to ask you to get the parents of any
>> children on photographs selected for use on the site to sign.
>>
>> 3. I will be starting to collect material for the pages very soon, but
>> in the first instance, it would be very useful if you could come back to
>> me with any ideas of what you would like to see on the site over and
>> above the sub-headings I mentioned above.
>>
>> We are lucky to have a good communications network set up already, so I
>> intend to use it to ensure that the Chinese Network pages are as useful
>> for everyone as possible!
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from you all.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Katharine Carruthers
>> --
>>
>> Katharine Carruthers
>> Brooke House
>> Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
>> Essex, CB10 2AA
>>
>>
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Katharine Carruthers
Brooke House
Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
Essex, CB10 2AA
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