1.+Introduction.+What's+the+HKDT+group+all+about?

toc =__**The HKDT Group. What's it all about?**__=

Welcome to the Hong Kong Design & Technology Wikispace 2010!

This Wikispace is managed entirely by myself, Tim Ford, Head of Faculty (DT and ICT) at Sha Tin College and functions as a focal point relating to my PhD research project and for the region-wide collaborations between our schools that it will hopefully generate.

The aims of this Wikispace are:


 * 1) **To provide a platform that encourages all Hong Kong schools to collaborate on issues concerning Design and Technology**
 * 2) **To provide a means by which Design and Technology Educators can locate each other's contact details**
 * 3) **To act as the hub through which my research project will be managed (2009-2012) and through which related information can be accessed.**

Please remember that this is a research project, a work in progress. It's development may be slow and take unknown directions, but the aims above will not change.

You are welcome to contact me:

tf@shatincollege.edu.hk

Work: 2699 1811 ext 131

Sha Tin College, Lai Wo Lane, Sui Wo Road, Fo Tan, Sha Tin.~

=__**A little more about me...**__=

Not an especially interesting topic, but everyone asks so here we go:


 * Born in Stourbridge, West Midlands (UK) August 1966
 * Bachelor of Education Degree with Honours from Middlesex Polytechnic, (now University) London 1988
 * Masters Degree in Technology Education 1995 (Middlesex University)
 * Worked in 3 secondary schools in London 1988-2002 (Bishop Douglass, Archbishop Tenisons, Highams Park)
 * Worked in Bristol (Speedwell Technology College) 2002-2004
 * Appointed Head of Design and Technology Department at Sha Tin College 2004
 * Current post: Head of Faculty: DT & ICT, Sha Tin College.
 * Married to Jane, also a DT teacher at King George Vth School, Kowloon.
 * 2 Children: Owen aged 8 and Robyn aged 3.
 * Enrolled on the Doctor of Education course with Bristol University in September 2006.
 * Anticipated completion date: some time in 2012!

I am really interested in raising the profile of Design and Technology as the great untapped learning mode of our age. I love to see how students solve problems in a practical context and how their learning manifests itself in such a unique and ever-changing way. I am keen to share our knowledge and expertise across Hong Kong so that we can help this subject grow and support each other in the process. I am especially interested at the moment in the management of our subject and how we can develop management strategies to better support our learners and ourselves. My PhD thesis is centred on this issue, but is only a small part of the project, it has wider aims that I hope will benefit all involved:


 * 1) **To provide a platform that encourages all Hong Kong schools to collaborate on issues concerning Design and Technology.**
 * 2) **To provide a means by which Design and Technology Educators can locate each other's contact details.**
 * 3) **To act as the hub through which my research project will be managed (2009-2012) and through which related information can be accessed.**

You can find out a bit more about my Faculty from our Wikispace which is **[|here] .**

When I'm not teaching, studying or trying to be a Dad, I like to play the guitar. I also love exploring Hong Kong and you can find out more about that **[|here.]**

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