The Hanoi Textile Industry – Fashion Junior College was upgraded from the Tayloring Techonology and Fashion Number One Secondary College in 2005 The College was founded in 1964 with the name, College of Tailoring Technology and Skills, belonging to the ministry of home trade In 1969, the college came to belong to the ministry of light industry (now ministry of industry and trade) In 1995 the college was under the charge of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group – ministry of industry and trade At present the college is charged with the tasks of giving training in the following branches and professions: Regular Junior College, Upgrading Junior College, Work-Study Junior College Tailoring technology Fashion design Engineering technologies Electrical and electronic technologies Business management Accounting Finance and banking Marketing Applied Information techonology English Professional Secondary College Tailoring Technology Fashion design Exploiting and Reparing Industrial and civilian electricity Information Technology Welding technology Tailoring equipment Business Management Accounting Marketing Processing metalic materials Finance and banking Vocational Junior College, Vocational Secondary College Fashionable Tailoring Fashion design Computer network management Management of small and medium business Training given the educational orders of businesses Going through 40 years of establishment and growing up, the Hanoi Textile Industry – Fashion Junior College having many stages of development, many names, has unceasingly developed and strengthened it Especially in the renovated years and over the past five years the college rapidly and firmly developed, a result demonstrated by achivements and rewarding awards To promote development, the Training Department was a pioneer in applying Information Techonology to the teaching system This was a prerequisite for development in the new era Having the functional responsibility for Information Technology, making training and recruiting plans, without applying Information Techonology the training process would not have achieved a chained system in the educational processes So the Training Department applied Information Technology to its work The state of applying Information Technology at the Hanoi Textile Industry – Fashion Junior College has undergone positive changes in comparison with the time without such an application Implementing the directions, resolutions of the Party, the State policy, over the past years, the Hanoi Textile Industry – Fashion Junior College has determined that the development and application of Information Technology is the breakthrough that might help the College to improve the quality of the human resources training, promote academic researches and technolgical transfers, contributing to the renovation of leading methods and working styles to ensure the competitiveness in the intellectual economy and the process of international integration Being aware that the application of Information Technology would better serve the administration and leadership of the Party committees at different levels, would be an important factor in contributing to the improvement of working effectiveness and rapidly promoting the renovation of the leading methods of the Party, a number of cadres and Party members took relevant lessons, gained knowledge and expored the possibilities of applying Information Technology and used other modern means to exploit, process and store information in the service of the leadership of the Party committee, gradually changed the old working habits and styles and adopted the new working styles; helped to transfer and process information more quickly and accurately, save time and the cost of printing and transporting, etc contributing to improve the quality and effectiveness of work - The Party committee sent cadres to attend training programmes, improve knowledge about the management of information technology projects and information networks, etc organized by the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group and the Department of Science and Technology of Hanoi City At present the College has 800 computers of different kinds The Party committees and cells are all provided with computers, printers and Internet connections, local area network (LAN) Immediately after the provision of computers and Information Technology equipment they were put into use, meeting the needs for improving the ability to draft and type documents in particular and the exchange and process information in general All the comrades in the Party committee and its divisions are proficient in using the computers to draft documents, store and exploit and exchange information in the computer network, search and exploit information in the available websites The sum capacity of the data facilities of the Party Committee of the College is more than 1GB The shared information system the data bases are rapidly implemented The Party Committee has applied software to work like the software Open Offices, Party membership data base, membership cards, membership fees management, etc The Party member’s data base with more than 700 files is being constructed and frequently updated being put in place for exploitation The updating of the data base about party documents and the data base about the table of contents of the documents in the archives of the Party Committee of the College is being actively implemented People are retyping the records and documents of the Party work of the Party Committee since its establishment to store them in the data base Besides achievements, the present application and development of Information Technology at the Hanoi Textile Industry – Fashion Junior College still have a number of remaining limitations or shortcomings that need to be overcome, namely: - Information technology has not been used as a very effective tool for making leadership and management decisions as well as the running of the College The foreign language ability, especially the English ability, of the cadres and party members are roughly not high, limiting the ability and need to communicate and exchange information through the web or network - Due to the very rapid development of science and technology, the system of equipment becomes outdated and backward quickly, so there is the urgent demand for replacing, updating re-furbishing computers and Information Technology equipment The internet system is presently overloaded, failing to maximally meet the learning, teaching and researching needs of cadres and students - The training of cadres has only concentrated on presenting general knowledge about Information Technology and training basic skills at using and exploiting computer networks Therefore, cadres need to receive continued training as regards Information Technology - The integration of systems of information in the Electronic Page of the College has been slowly implemented, with inadequately harmonious co-ordination between the functional departments and divisions The cadres administering the networks are fewer and less able than needed A number of shared applications have not been realized: registration, management and tracking of incoming and outgoing documents; tracking of application documetns and letters; sending and receiving documents; processing official letters; financial and property management, looking up dossiers, directories, etc With years of experiences and applications at the Hanoi Textile Industry – Fashion Junior College; I draw a number of experiences lessons: - Lecturers should be dreadless, should not be fearful of difficulties or hardship If they design and use their own electronic lectures, the lecturers can exercise many skills and coordinate well other active teaching methods; - When devising the electronic lectures the teacher should before hand prepare the scenarios, materials (Video, images, maps, ), choose the solutions for the application of science and technology, only thereafter drafting the lectures If MS PowerPoint is used as the main tool the teacher should mind the letter Font, colour (Blue (black)- white, yellow/red) and the suitable effect (simple and gentle effect, helping to keep concentration on the content of the lectures); - The lectures’ content should be compendious, imageable and have a compact style, whose simulations should be close to the subjects (there should not be many images or letters in one slide) The contents to be written down by the students should have conventions (frames or background colours might be used) which will help to overcome expected difficulties of the students; The content of the lectures should contain many bonds, especially connections with the system of questions to overcome arising pedagogical problems (like the repetition of knowledge, lesson plan, the running out of lesson time, …such bonds may be placed in the master slide), exploiting the strong point of CNTT in testing and checking the results (While consolidating the lessons, questions should be asked to drive at applicable or testing answers); - Not to misuse technologies if they not have a positive impact on the teaching process and the development of the students, not to misuse reproductive technologies if they not faithfully reflect the content, artistic value, and reality Standardized knowledge at the applying level needs to be combined with board [bảng: chưa rõ nghĩa chữ này] and the using of other teaching methods for good effect; - Lecturers need to study and participate in the training courses for drafting and delivering electronic lectures, frequently log in the websites and the forums: bachkim.vn, dayhocintel.org, giaovien.net, moet.edu.vn, … each school should have the “Electronic lectures” to exchange and enrich experiences, obtaining new technologies or giving and taking good methods - Multipurpose room should come into existence and fully equiped with projector, filming camera, camera, Internet connection, etc …instructions for use (the positions of the projector, spotlight, luminance need to be taken into consideration), provisions for reparing and upgrading hardware, educational software, fringe benefit for the cadre in charge of the room to solve errors and faults and maintain permanently good use; - The Department of Education needs to have guidance documents to help the colleges implement the application of Information Technology to teaching (implementation from where and how is it to be?), hold annually the “The lecturer good at using Information Technology” competition or “ Golden keyboard”, … to stimulate the passion for creativity in the service for the education cause - Education experts should soon put forward criteria assessing the study period using Information Technology, preparing electronic lectures so that there will be a basis for assessments and a bank of high quality electronic lectures - The Department of Education should have a WebServer to process the documents, create the educational material data base, www, elearning, etc name sub Domian for the subordinating units to reduce expenses and have a concentrated management of data In recent years, Information Technology has developed unceasingly and rapidly, many intellectual products of mankind have been put into use in production lines, academic researches, commerce, etc Vietnamese Information Techonolcy has also rapidly developed evidently confirmed by the application of Information Technology by enterprises, units, organizations and individuals to all fields such as academic researches, automated production lines, and especially production management and business However, the contact with and approaches to Information Technology have not been as fast as IT development itself Not all enterprises, units, organizations, etc understand clearly the ways to apply Information Technology to the management of their own enterprises and units Basing on the particular conditions of each customer, our experts will help you to understand more clearly the ways to apply software to management, their effectiveness and the benefits obtained Such particulars may be: The material basis of modern Information Technology The number of subordinate units (if any) The present professional procedures of the customer Other particular bases Information about the material basis of the Information Technology is the important basis to determine the application of which technology will be suitable for the management task of the company The number of subordinating units (if any) of the company will be the basis to determine the management form of the company, helping to suggest the forms of the data bases, dispersion or concentration, or both Regarding enterprises and organizations with only one main base, the management by the concentrating management data base will ensure the high safety level for the whole system The most important factor for applying the software system to management and operation is the present professional management of the customer + Regarding customers having experiences in management methods, we will base on such skills to suggest solutions applying management software to replace their present methods and develop new ones suitable for the management method using software systems + Regarding customers who are new enterpreneurs who just began operations, having a diversified management method, we will base on the particular situation regarding organizational structure, production branch or business kind, entrepreneurial model, number of employees, Information Technology conditions and infrastructure, etc to suggest solutions applying the software systems to the production and business management Other bases are supplementary bases for each customer; there are special forms of management skills to serve as a basis for suggestions for management methods for such special tasks Apart from the mentioned concrete factors, we frequently support customers regarding the factors concerning the supplementation of management skills, upgrading the software systems suitable for the demand for uninterrupted development of the custombers APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES The application of Information Technology (IT) in schools and colleges is an inevitable trend of the Information era It is impossible to refute the role and importance of the application of IT to education Now it is not the question whether IT should be applied to Vietnamese schools but the question how to implement the application of IT To have the effective application the strong points and advantages of IT need to be brought into full play while its negative side effect should be avoided, taking into account at the same time the particulars of each locality and unit This essay would like to approach a number of solutions feasible and widely applicable in schools in many forms and at many educational levels The basis to determine the solutions: Scientifically, the application of IT to schools needs to be synchroniously implemented and uniformly managed Without guidance, there is no basis for the management to test and assess From the systematic point of view, the educational process is locally seen as a closed system; yet regarding a broad aspect (together with the other objective processes) the educational process is an open system assemblying many dialectically interactive elements, helping to make a lecturer of the Hanoi Textile Industry – Fashion Junior College Such solutions were implemented with good effect at many experimented schools covered by the project “Information Technology in education and management” carried out by Thiên An in cooperation with the College So when IT application in schools is implemented, a systemtatic and comprehensive viewpoint should be adopted As regards the realistic aspect, the IT application in Vietnamese schools has been implemented in the whole system, reaching different levels and achieving a number of successes To increase the number of such successes and consolidate them, the schools need to establish a mobile “mechanism”, i.e building an organization-personnel machinery to implement IT application in schools Objective: With a view to having timely and reasonable guidance for implementation of IT application in schools School leaders make the decision to establish the organization-personnel machinery to serve as consultants for the headmaster regarding the implementation and good management of IT application in schools; for teachers regarding the methods and forms of exploiting IT in effective teaching and learning, contributing to the elevation of teaching quality This organization-personnel machinery is comprised of: the support group: cadres in charge of IT of the Department of Education, District Bureau and Headmaster—people in a position to make decisions concerning the organizationpersonnel machinery and the implementation of IT application The support group has the task of determining the vision, missions and strategy of implementing IT application in schools in a certain stage It can also make management decisions in support of the activities of IT application Operation group: People authorized by the headmaster to run the activities of IT application in schools This group is responsible for planning the implementation, assigning tasks to each unit, supervising and managing the application of IT in schools Coordination group: technological and pedagogical coordination + Technological coordination: are people knowledgable about IT having the responsibility for: Consultancy regarding planning the procurement of necessary equipment; Management and maintenance of equipment; Management of materials (software, lectures, materials, etc.); giving training for teachers concerning how to use software; Coordination of the use of equipment by teachers and students in accordance with the needs of each study period; Making procedures for using equipment, internal rules concerning the using of equipment for teachers and students; Technological support for teachers during the study period when need be + Pedagocial coordination: People knowledgable about professional management at schools and pedagocial methods, having the responsibility for: Support for IT application in management; Support for IT application in teaching and studying; Organization of discussions among members of the implementation group on how to apply IT effectively; Engagement in exchanges of view with the implementation group on scenarios of applying IT; Organization of discussions evaluating the hardware, software, utility, web pages, etc Giving training to members of the implementation group; Organization of discussions within the implementation group concerning the models of lesson plans for a study period having IT application, the norms to assess the effectiveness of a study period having IT application, etc + Implementation group: all teachers, cadres of departments and divisions participating in teaching For this the organization-personnel machinery to have effective and long-term activities, the result of the activities of this machinery needs to be included in the criteria concerning emulation of each academic term and year, etc II The schools organize training for the using of the above mentioned software and the related hardware for the teachers’ knowledge and use Teachers of the departments and divisions hold discussions on how to use IT facilities with a view to bringing into full play IT effectiveness However, no methods are all-purpose Therefore, depending on the content of each special subject the teachers may choose the suitable IT methods and facilities The college or school establishes the norms to assess the effectiveness of a study period having IT application which will serve as a basis for assessing the effectiveness of the IT application in teaching The academic institution frequently organizes the emulation movements: Making electronic lectures and study periods with IT application, etc with a view to having an enthusiastic emulation atmosphere in the whole institution concerning the application of IT Deserving rewards for individuals, collectives pioneering in bringing IT into teaching The material and equipment basis of IT is needed for a basis concerning the determination of solutions for the application of IT in teaching The material and equipment basis of IT in the service of teaching and studying of the College is rather good at present but has not been up to the level suitable for the particular professional training task of the institution Many computer programs violated copyrights (Microsoft Office), the number of computer programs and IT utilities used in teaching is not numerous The availability of the multimedia rooms is inadequate regarding the number of students in class Many teachers not have the conditions or opportunities to get in touch with the multimedia rooms and software, etc Therefore people have not brought into play the hardware and software potential, having not contributed to create effectiveness for the study periods with IT application Objective: With a view to creating favourable conditions regarding equipment for the IT application in teaching Increase the number of computers in the lab At present the lab rooms of the College are rather modern, fully meeting the demands for IT application in teaching Nevertheless, the number of computers is limited Crowded classes can not use the lab effectively This problem might be solved by providing computers for the present classrooms Change the brick wall betweenthe lab and classroom 201 by a mobile divide When a class does not have many students, we use the mobile divide to have to independent classrooms When a class is a crowded one, we may roll up the divide to have a large classroom The provision of software for the effective application of IT, the software and IT utilities (taken up in solution II) should be available and installed before the users operate Ensuring that all teachers are well trained to have the skills to use them Immediately equipe the software Microsoft Office (copyrighted) or the software open source code freely for all computers (portable and desktop) Exploiting Internet and electronic library The use of computers in general and Internet in particular for supporting teaching and and studying has become very prevalent in universities IT in general and Internet in particular have become and are becoming the new training means The present website of the college is constructed with the object oriented programming technology ASP.NET Therefore the interactive character is rather strong But at present the website is only exploited for information for readers, not yet serving teaching and learning Therefore there should be more exploitation of the Internet, especially the website of the College for teaching activities The particular works for using the website for teaching, progressing towards the form of training and further training online:  Using the website to have communicative contacts between studentstudent, teacher – teacher, student – teacher, student – college, teacher – college via module forum, online exchanges, internal e-mail, etc  Internet management of students, teachers, scores, etc  Electronize the lectures, material in accordance with the standard SCORM  Make test questions bank for groups of special subjects for which there will be tests  Make the procedures, organize training for teachers, students regarding electronic study material, lectures, forms of teaching and learning via the network, etc  Pilot teaching and learning via the network Establishment of a bank of electronic materials on the basis of the promotion of an emulation movement, encouraging teachers to construct a bank of electronic materials in the service of teaching their own special subjects The College will synthesize and assess such materials and make them commonly available The basis for determining the solutions The IT application in teaching will only become effective when the essential conditions converge These are very important premises for the guarantee of applying IT successfully to teaching With only one computer it is impossible to bring IT into teaching effectively The materialistic, human, financial and policy-making factors all have great influence on the result of bringing IT into the schools Before presenting the teaching methods in the IT environment, we should determine these factors clearly because the absence of just one of them may also harm the efforts of ours The combination of necessary conditions will create an educational environment favourable for the powerful application of IT Objective: Helping the managers and teachers to have the conditions concerning knowledge and necessary facilities to apply IT successfully in teaching Content of solution Determination of the common vision The common vision is reflected by the active support of the leaders concerning administrative matters in the whole system of schools It will create the association and unity for the teachers The common vision should be shared by all members of the institution Creation of conditions for all teachers to approach IT Technology, software and the communication network is presently readily prepared for new teachers to use in teaching and serving the professional work at any time All teaching lecturers need to approach the IT utilities such as hardware, software and other media tools in the classroms, offices as well as at home The allocation of IT resources in the institution should be realized fairly concerning teachers at all levels However, not all teachers are fully informed about the development of IT Therefore, the technology division of the institution should introduce new technology to the lecturers and create favourable conditions for the latter to approach it Those proficient in using IT in the service of the teaching and managing tasks raise the basic IT level of the lecturers and managers and so on and so forth Knowledge about IT, the ability to professionally use and apply to teaching of the cadres of the institution might be different but there is the common ground regarding the basic IT level The instructing cadres might give consultancy and guide new lectuers and others Creation of opportunities for lecturers to develop disciplinary or professional ability Teaching cadres are continually in touch with opportunities to develop disciplinary ability involving many different forms and they have the time to make use of the available opportunities All teachers should participate in the programs to develop disciplinary or professional ability organized with a view to continually raising the IT skills and application of IT to the teaching programs Inexperienced lecturers are given guidance to select the best solution for the activities of their professional operation Technical support Technical support for lecturers is given timely and on the spot, including the help to improve the skills in managing software and hardware in teaching All lecturers are supported fairly and timely without discrimination on the grounds of seniority The objective of technical support is to ensure the continuity of teaching and learning activities give the lecturers the chance of to frequently learn or to cultivate the skills in processing problems arising in IT Technical support cadres direct and assist inexperienced lecturers in using hardware, software in teaching and and the steps required supplementary technical support Uniform standards concerning content and the teaching sources Part of professional development is to achieve academic criteria in a collaborative environment so all teachers can influence the reception of technological resources that helps students to have the content standards Standards concerning content and materials of the teaching programs need to be openly available for all lecturers and students Students not only get knowledge from class lectures but also such sources of materials, giving themselves the opportunities to widen and deepen knowledge and better the skills in processing information in the service of the educational activities  ... play IT effectiveness However, no methods are all-purpose Therefore, depending on the content of each special subject the teachers may choose the suitable IT methods and facilities The college or... communicative contacts between studentstudent, teacher – teacher, student – teacher, student – college, teacher – college via module forum, online exchanges, internal e- mail, etc  Internet management... present the website is only exploited for information for readers, not yet serving teaching and learning Therefore there should be more exploitation of the Internet, especially the website of the