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Think.Com – Malaysia
Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) and MOE
Kick-off Activities for 2007
19th Apr 2007
Agenda
• Welcome address
• Objective
• Current landscape
• Targets 2007
• Proposed model, roles and responsibilities
• School activities 2007
• Q&A
Objectives
• Establish communication channels via
• Teleconference & Web Conference
• Emails – distribution lists
• Kickoff – activities in 2007
• Communicating targets
• Communicating approach
Current Landscape
• Register registered school users (students & teachers) :
22,387
• Current active school users (students & teachers) in last
12 months: 7,268
• No of schools registered : 790
• Malaysia is included in Tier 1 – Think.Com rollout in Asia
Pacific (India, China, Australia and Thailand)
Targets 2007
• “Performance recognition plan - fosters and propel ICT
usage in schools
• MOE (including PKGs and Teachers) interaction with OEF
• Provide proactive technical support, new features
• Provide continuous 2 way open communication channel
• PKG on the ground – can help monitor and measure
school success
Targets 2007
• Project Collaboration Activities
• Maintain active users – inculcates ICT in teaching and learning
• Conduct and devised activities – reduces the digital divide
• Measurement from Apr, 2007 – Dec, 2007
• Suggestion 3 milestones (propose Jun, Aug, Oct 07)
• Mix project themes
• Jun – open – pull factors, flexible topics or curriculum
• Aug – patriotic – inline with 50 years Independence Day
• Oct – curriculum or flexible topics
• Number of school active users expected (60,000) by end of Dec 2007
• “Profile”/”Segmentation/Category” of targets. Proposal
• Group A Schools : 150 schools * 150 school users = 25,000
• Group B Schools : 300 schools * 75 school users = 22, 500
• Group C Schools : 372 schools * 40 school users = 14, 880
• Total ~60,000 school users
First Milestone
• Open project collaboration activities – Jun 07
• Kickoff meeting today (19 Apr 2007)
• Announcement in Think.Com in Apr/May 07
• Inline with BTP KPI measurement timeframe
• Devised for Jun 07 (by before end of the month)
• Online project collaboration activities/competitions
• Varieties of topics – themes based (bi-lingual)
• Jointly with OEF to devised ‘Rubric’ announce in Malaysia
• PKGs and Schools submit nominations
• PKGs to encourage and monitor school’s progress
 Proposed Model
TC (OEF) Ms Hui Seng, Boon
Zones Teleconference &
(PKGs or webconference
monthly
State PSPN … … … ………….
1 2 3 8
representing
the Zones) Meet/Teleconference fortnightly Chat 1 hour per week
(Kommunikasi)
PKGs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Meet/Teleconference fortnightly Chat 1 hour per week

(Kommunikasi & Pemantauan Progress Sekolah)

Schools 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Total ~822 schools

Roles and responsibilities
• Establish and foster 2 way communications
• Between OEF, PKGs and Schools
• Jointly with OEF to devised ‘Rubric’ announce in Malaysia
• PKGs and Schools submit nominations
• PKGs to encourage and monitor school’s progress
School activities
• High active users
• One school per district – total 80 Schools.
• Best district school per zone – 10 districts.
• Best zone out of 8 zones.
• PKGs recognition
• Project Qualification teams
• First Group Prize, Best Coach
• Second Group Prize, Best Coach
 School Activities
Project Collaboration Jun 07 - themes
• Choice of themes (bi-lingual) based on the age groups
• SK – Tahap 1 (Year 1-3) Primary 1
1. Caring for animals
2. Be my friend
3. Games that you like to play
4. Festival/Perayaan
5. Eat right/Pemakanan yang sihat
• SK – Tahap 2 (Year 4-6) (Primary 2)
1. Road safety/Keselamatan Jalanraya
2. Interesting places/Tempat-tempat menarik
3. Green your environment
• SMK – Rendah (Form 1 – 3) (Lower Secondary)
1. Making your own toys
2. Obesity
3. Love your nature
4. Your dream vacation
5. Who write letters these days?
• SMK – Atas (Form 4 & 5) (Upper Secondary)
• Stress free learning
• Using IT in daily lives
• Extreme sports
• Space exploration
Q&A