Hong Kong Education Manpower Bureau (EMB), Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) and Microsoft Hong Kong Limited successfully co-hosted the "School Leader Development Series (VII): A symposium on e-leadership stories" workshop on 25 November, 2006. We have over 200 principals, mid-level management teachers, IT team members who participated in this event. We are honored to invite Mr. Don Hall, the Executive Director (CIO) for Information Technology in Kent School District to share his experience in using technology to improve instruction. Furthermore, we invited Prof. K. M. Cheng, Chair Professor of Education and Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor, HKU and Mr. Ma Siu Leung, Chief Executive Officer, Fung Kai Public School to share with us some tips on how to utilize IT on e-leadership and lead the IT projects.

We invited 4 local principals to share with us their insights on how to become a digital leader and introduce the 4 elements to be aware of in the IT education process, including "unleash innovation", "team building", "multiple roles of being a leader" and "the significance of 'digital' in IT leadership".

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Opening Speech Mr. She Mang
Curriculum Development Officer
(IT in Education),
Education and Manpower Bureau

Ms. Joelle Woo
Director of Developer and Platform Group
Microsoft Hong Kong Limited
Significant themes from e-Leadership journeys:
  1. "Initiating Innovation" ¢w should goals be focused on broad?
  2. "Team building" ¢w does the membership matter?
  3. "Principal roles" ¢w which roles are important, and do these change over time?
  4. "Does 'e' matter in e-Leadership?" ¢w Does the specific choice of IT make any difference to how the innovation should be led?
 Ms. Ng Lai Han
Principal of CCC Kei Tsz Primary School

Mrs. Chan Hung Yuk Fun
Principal of BM Kotewall Memorial School the Spastics Association of Hong Kong

Ms. Lam Yee Wah
Principal of CCC Heep Woh College

Mr. Li Lok Yin
Principal of Queen's College

Plenary Session I: e-Leadership at the School Level
  1. Learning from e-Leadership stories
  2. Leadership or Administration? ¡V the challenge of leveraging IT for learning
 Prof. Nancy Law
Director of CITE, HKU

Prof. Kai-Ming Cheng
Chair Professor of Education and Senior Advisor to the
Vice-Chancellor, HKU

Plenary Session II: e-Leadership beyond the School Level
e-Leadership to support school change at the district level 		Mr. Don Hall
Executive Director of Information Technology,
Kent School District,
Washington State, USA

Panel Discussion: e-Leadership beyond the school level ¡V way forward for Hong Kong?
 Mr. Don Hall
Executive Director of Information Technology,
Kent School District,
Washington State, USA

Mr. Ma Siu Leung
Chief Executive Officer of Fung Kai Public School

Mr. Ng Hok Ling
Chairman of Hong Kong Association for Computer Education

Concluding note Dr. Allan Yuen
Deputy Director of CITE