Welcome
to Hong Kong Geographical Association
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| Hong
Kong Teachers' Centre Annual Conference: Curriculum Development and Teaching
Practice |
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| Fieldwork Learning in Geography for Junior and Senior Secondary Students | |
| Section organized by HKGA | |
| Date: | 17 May 2008 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 11:00am to 12:30pm |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Teachers' Centre, EDB Education Services Building, Kowloon Tong |
| Speaker: | Dr. Lai Kwok-chan (a veteran Senior Inspector of Geography in the Education Department and now the Director of Strategic and Academic Planning at The Hong Kong Institute of Education) |
| The application deadline to the HKTC is 30th April 2008. More details can be found in the latest news section of the HKTC website, www.edb.gov.hk/hktc. | |
| (Posted 31 March 2008) | |
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| Hong Kong Geography Day 2008: Inter-school Poster Design Competition | |
| Hong Kong Geography Day (2008) will be held on 15 November 2008. We are inviting secondary school students to join our Inter-school Poster Design Competition. The winning design will be used as posters and souvenir production for Hong Kong Geography Day (2008). | |
| Invitation letter, regulations and registration form (in PDF format) | |
| Deadline of Application: 25 April 2008 | |
| Deadline of Artwork Submission: 23 May 2008 | |
| (Posted 9 April 2008) | |
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| HKGA
Project funded by the Education and Manpower Bureau |
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| FREE GIS Workshop: “Conducting Spatial Enquiry in the New Senior Secondary Geography Curriculum” | |
| This Workshop is a trial run on Module One: Managing Urban Transport of the HKGA project led by Dr. Becky P.Y. Loo. Each module consists of a fieldwork component involving an on-site survey and a spatial enquiry component using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). | |
| Date: | 26 April 2008 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 9:30am to 12:30pm |
| Venue: | Geographic Information Systems Laboratory (GIS Lab), Room 212, 2/F, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong |
| A FREE CD-ROM with the datasets and user instructions will be distributed to all Workshop participants | |
| GIS Knowledge NOT Required! Free of charge and priority given to HKGA members. | |
| Seats are limited. Registration deadline: 21 April 2008 | |
| Details and registration form (in PDF format) | |
| Workshop summary (in PDF format) | |
| (Posted 31 March 2008) | |
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| Annual General Meeting 2008 and Prize Presentation Ceremony of Secondary School Project Learning Competition 2007 | |
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All members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting and the prize presentation ceremony of Secondary School Project Learning Competition 2007. The event will be held after the GIS Workshop in the morning of the same day. |
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| Date: | 26 April 2008 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm |
| Venue: | Map Library, Rm 201, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong |
| AGM invitation letter (in PDF format) | |
| (Posted 12 April 2008) | |
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| Institute
of Space and Earth Information Science, the Chinese University of Hong
Kong |
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| Integrating Transportation and Geographic Information Systems: A Problem-solving Approach | |
| By Becky P.Y. Loo, P.C. Lai and Hui Lin | |
| This book (approximately 800 pages) aims to integrate transportation knowledge with geographic information systems (GIS) in Hong Kong. The major problem encountered by the transportation and GIS students is that the former find the use of GIS software difficult and the latter do not fully understand the transportation model and algorithms underlying the GIS software. This teaching package allows both groups of students to integrate some basic models and theories of transportation, and the applications of GIS in transportation (GIS-T). | |
| Detailed information available at: http://geog.hku.hk/transgis/publications/ | |
| 10% discount is offered to HKGA members | |
| Order form (for HKGA members only, in PDF format) | |
| (Posted 22 January 2008) | |
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Hong
Kong University Press |
| The book examines the physical and human origins of landscapes in Hong Kong. |
| Cover, Information, Table of Content & Ordering Informationt (in PDF format) |
| Price: Members: HK$200 (including postage) Non-members: HK$200 (plus HK$20 for postage) |
| (posted 21 November 2007) |
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| Project Learning Competition on Liberal Studies and Geography 2006-07 | ||
HKGA-HKIEd Project Learning Competition has completed with great success and the price winners have been decided by the adjudicator panel in June 2007. 32 projects with a wide range of topics were submitted by different schools. Entries were judged according to: 1) Creativity and content of inquiry (35%); 2) Enquiry method (35%); 3) Presentation (20%) and 4) Originality (10%). |
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| Champion: | Wan Chai Reclamation Phase II: Gain or Loss? | |
| Saint Joseph's College | ||
| First runner-up: |  |
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| Cheung Chau Government Secondary School | ||
| Second runner-up: |  |
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| Po Leung Kuk Ma Kam Ming College | ||
| Certificate of merits: |  |
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| Carmel Bunnan Tong Memorial Secondary School | ||
| Certificate of merits: | West Kowloon and Sustainable Development | |
| Heep Yunn School | ||
| Certificate of merits: |  |
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| Wah Yan College, Kowloon | ||
| Congratulations to prize winners. HKGA and HKIEd would like to thank the support of all schools, teachers, students and adjudicators to the event. A complimentary one-year HKGA corporate membership will be given to each school joining the competition. Details of prize-giving ceremony will be announced soon! | ||
| (posted 1 November 2007) | ||
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| EMB Funds the HKGA Proposal on “Conducting Spatial Enquiry in the New Senior Secondary Geography Curriculum” | ||
The
Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region (HKSAR) Government has recently announced its funding of the proposal
of the Hong Kong Geographical Association (HKGA) on “Conducting
Spatial Enquiry in the New Senior Secondary Geography Curriculum”
under the “Partnership Scheme with Subject-related Organizations”.
The funding exercise was highly competitive and the winning proposal of
HKGA was developed by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Becky P.Y. Loo,
Chairperson of the HKGA. |
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| Details (in PDF format) | ||
| (posted 8 March 2007) | ||
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