The Hong Kong system is such that people can do their preservice teacher training (either as an undergraduate degree, ie, a B.Ed., or as a one-year postgraduate diploma) prior to becoming a teacher, or start teaching immediately after getting a degree and then do a two-year part-time teaching diploma. The other questions you asked are meaningful but big questions. I hope I'll be able to address these in my blog in the near future.

Hey Janet.
Thanks for leaving your introduction on My Page.
Well, what my company is actually doing is that we are developing this authoring tool for both content creators and educational institutions to digitalize their contents as a package for students.
It's kinda hard to really put it just in text.
So to kinda help you picture what it is that we are doing, please click on the link below:
http://sales.ensophia.com/?s=60
The link will guide you to a sample content that we created using our software, ensophia.
The content is currently in Japanese but it talks about the features of ensophia.
Is there anything in particular that you would like to know about the education system in Japan etc.
Let me know if you have specific questions that you would like me to answer and I'll help you as much as I can.
Have an awesome day!
Cheers
Tracy

Hi Janet,
My students use computers individually, usually, when they need to write something, such as an essay on Google Docs. That said, setting up computers and making sure that all documents are shared properly can be quite a hassle, too much of hassle sometimes, I believe.

My students are local students who have been learning English formally for at least a dozen years, and whose public exam marks were mediocre at best, which at CityU requires the students to take our ELC courses -- they are "regular" mediocre students.

Please feel free to look through my blog, in which you can find some similar correspondence to ours.

http://davidwoo.vox.com/library/posts/tags/correspondence/