Effort was devoted to the selection of cases that would provide a range of
examples reflecting the widest range of teaching approaches present in Hong
Kong schools. In order to arrive at a list of potential schools for the study, the
research team consulted members of the Steering Committee of the SITES-M1
and Education Department officials of the government who had good contacts
with schools, as well as used publicly available information and events like
newspaper features and education, and exhibitions to identify schools that
were actively engaged in some form of integrating ICT in their school
curriculum. The research team then contacted each of the school principals and
asked if they would be willing to allow the team to conduct the research in their
schools. The key criterion for selection was that the team should be allowed to
observe some classrooms where ICT was used and that the team could
videotape the lesson when it was being conducted (Law et al., 2000). The
researchers finally selected seven primary and 11 secondary schools from