Basically, the project involves a lot of computational and information engineering work which is highly technical in nature. But apart from this technical work, we lay great emphasis on a continual liaison with our partnership schools in order to 1) make them aware of the web lexical resources we provide for them, 2) know their changing needs so that we can address to these needs when we are upgrading our tools or when we are making plans for our future work, and 3) give them every possible assistance, if required, so that they will gradually develop their own web pages and use them for school-based student-teacher activities related to language education. To achieve this goal, we will organize the following activities:

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i) School visits to partnership schools with onsite demonstration for teachers and students introducing to them our work and conveying to them the message that web resources can make language teaching and learning effective, productive, innovative, as well as interesting.

ii) During our visits, we will help our partnership schools to install browser and telnet hot links on their internet-connected computers, so that access to our language supporting internet services (lexicons, databases etc) will be as simple as a mouse click. It is expected that through these dedicated machines, the habit and techniques of using language related internet tools can be further promoted in language classes and further propagated to home-based computers of teachers and students. This same dedicated PCs can also be used outside classes as working platform by teachers and students who will become more involved in school-based internet activities to be further explicated in 3).

iii) Publication of brochures and newsletters introducing our work and our products. Besides the 15 partnership schools, other schools in Hong Kong, including primary ones, will also be included in our mailing list.

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iv) Teachers of partner schools will be invited to become beta-users of our new services prior to their official release to the school sector. In this way, the need and expectation of our target users will be duly reflected.

v) Questionnaires will be sent to students and teachers to collect their feedback on our work. They will also be encouraged to give suggestion on what material should be included in our future projects.

vi) Organization of hands-on workshops for language subject teachers. Besides sharing with them our experience as information provider over the network, we will also encourage language subject teachers to bring along didactic materials derived from their real-life teaching experience so that we can consider how these materials can be consolidated into topic-specific web pages. Didactic materials with universal relevance will be incorporated into our core program. Materials which are valuable but specific to individual schools will be hooked up to school-based web-pages to be discussed in 3).

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vii) We will provide each school an account in our server and enough storage capacity, free of charge, so that they can use our computing platform to experiment on the application of network techniques in promoting biliteracy and trilingualism. Online or onsite technical assistance will be given.

viii) We will discuss with our 15 partnership schools and give them advice to form student-teacher initiatives for the setting up of their school web-pages of their own. With the setup of the school web-page, other school-based internet activities can be further induced.

ix) With the same account, each partnership school can, inter alia, set up electronic "chatrooms" as well as electronic "mailing lists" to allow interactive exchange of ideas between teachers and students themselves. Technical assistance will be given if needed.

x) Subject teachers and computer-minded upper formers can also use our account to launch topic-specific pages related to language education. In case of technical obstacles, our working team will provide all necessary assistance.

xi) Occasional workshops will be organized so that cross-school interaction and brainstorming can be achieved, and also that subject-related and technical experience can be shared for mutual benefit.

xii) While the web-pages of the various partnership schools are taking shape, we will set up a central Web-Page in the name of the Project and have the efforts of all the partnership schools consolidated and linked-up. This central web-page will become a crystallization point for similar work of other schools in Hong Kong.