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Learning Beyond Books, Reaching Out To Others |
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Schools And The Community Benefit From Infocomm
Innovation And Usage At The 'Infocomm Clubs' |
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Infocomm Clubs, one of the latest school
Co-Curricular Activity (CCA), where youths from ages 9 to 18 play and
learn with infocomm, are spawning a new generation of infocomm-savvy
students. |
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Thanks to the fervent support of teachers,
who show they know what it takes to realise the potential of infocomm to
better the way we work, live, learn and play. |
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National Infocomm Club Awards |
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Students at Guangyang Primary are now
learning how they can protect domestic animals from abuse with a fun
flash animation game they produced. It taught them to be responsible
when looking after animals and to give them a comfortable home. |
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Meanwhile, students at the Methodist Girls’
School are using specially-designed infocomm-based lessons and movie
clips to teach basic English and computer skills to youths in Cambodia. |
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Then, at Pei Tong Primary School, students
are discovering the joy of learning on difficult science subject with
the help of interactive resources, such as worksheets, videos and
mindmaps, online anytime and anywhere. |
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And, for teachers at Hwa Chong Institution,
they are saying good-bye to stacks of files as they now keep records of
their academic and CCA performances on a web portal. |
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For their ingenuity in the use of infocomm,
they received today the first-ever National Infocomm Club Awards from
RADM (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Minister of State, Ministry of Education (MOE). |
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These six winners' projects are part of the
14 shortlisted for the inaugural National Infocomm Club Awards,
organised by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and
supported by the MOE. A total of 74 submissions were received. |
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"Today we have seen the Infocomm Club
members’ creativity and originality in applying their infocomm skills
and entrepreneurial role beyond the classroom. I am confident that these
young students, our future techno-strategists, will continue to embrace
infocomm, make it their career and lead Singapore's growth into the
Digital Age," said Mr Leong Keng Thai, Deputy Chief Executive and
Director-General (Telecoms) at the IDA. |
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The National Infocomm Club Awards recognise
the creativity of Infocomm Club students in using technology to educate
and connect to the wider community, or within schools. |
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The Awards also recognise the exemplary
efforts of Infocomm Club teachers in promoting the use of infocomm to
students and nurturing them into future infocomm talent. (See Annex A,
'Project description of National Infocomm Club Awards finalists'). |
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The winners of The National Infocomm Club
Awards are: |
Primary Category
Top Winner : River Valley Primary School (Project: The Adventures of
Respect)
Merit Winner : Chua Chu Kang Primary School (Project: Intelligent
Communicators)
Merit Winner : Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Project: HOPE) |
Secondary / Junior College
Category
Top Winner : Raffles Institution
(Project: E-learning Packages for Down Syndrome Youths)
Merit Winner : Hwa Chong Institution (Project: Spiderportal)
Merit Winner : Victoria Junior College (Project: Automated Quiz
Management System) |
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Students' Choice Award winners are Chua Chu
Kang Primary School (Project: Intelligent Communicators) and Raffles
Institution (Project: Raffles Infocomm Outreach Programme 2007). (Based
on votes of 300 attendees at today's award presentation ceremony) |
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The Top Prize Winners in Secondary / Junior
College category and Primary category received prizes and book vouchers
worth $10,000 and $7,000 respectively. |
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Merit Winners in Secondary / Junior College
category and Primary category received prizes and book vouchers worth
$4,500 and $2,500 respectively. Students' Choice received $300 worth of
book vouchers. Prizes are sponsored by Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and
SingTel. (Please see Annex B 'National Infocomm Club Awards Prizes') |
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The winners of the first-ever National
Infocomm Club Awards were selected by a panel comprising representatives
from IDA, MOE, Singapore Science Centre and Singapore Computer Society. |
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Source:
www.ida.gov.sg Media Release 16 Nov
2007 |
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