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
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Katharine Carruthers
Brooke House
Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
Essex, CB10 2AA
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