Inculcating ICT Skills through a Collaborative Digital Library Initiative for Educational Use

摘要

The biographical portal is the domain used as the test-bed towards the implementation of a fully integrated collaborative digital library of historical resources. The interviews and the pilot surveys provide invaluable information about information gathering behaviour and the community's perception of digital libraries. To successfully implement the collaboration between partners, a number of problems need to be ironed out. The teachers involved need to be given training in publishing digital resources and the skill of indexing and validating the resources to ensure that the contents of the library can be efficiently retrieved. Users must accept the reality that the richness in content of the digital library is dependent upon their willingness and active participation as partners. The outcome of this involvement is imparting ICT awareness and skills to the educational community. Another important skill needed is the ability to reference or cite resources used correctly. Subsequent phase of this digital library project will further investigate the requirements of users by applying the survey instruments to a wider sample groups; expanding contents; incorporating a digital library history lessons, teaching tools, and examination questions bank on history for lower secondary schools. Future study is also needed to gauge students and teachers level of ICT literacy as a result of their involvement in the development of the digital library.