Seeking ‘experts’ for IB ITGS students to interview

Can you help? Are you an expert in one of the following or know one?

My current grade 12 IB ITGS students at the Western Academy of Beijing need ‘experts’ to interview online or via email for their portfolio extension. They are 17-18 years old and have been (individually) investigating issues arising from the use of IT. Each student has produced a portfolio paper on their topic which is based on secondary research and now need to interview an ‘expert’ for further opinions for their extension. (The experts must be over the age of 18 and have first-hand experience of the topic.) Please, please would you think about your contacts and let me know if you are able to help? We are aiming to get these interviews done in the next couple of weeks (by Dec 17) – if possible! You can email me directly (madeleine_brookes@wab.edu) or leave a comment here.

Here is the list of what we need (in the words of the individual students):

Topic: The effect of SMS on language of high school students
Issue: The degradation of written language
Who you want to interview: a high school English teacher where the primary teaching language is English, a linguistic expert on spoken and written English.

Topic: Biometric Identification System in schools
Issue: Privacy issue
Who you want to interview: The organiser of the biometric system in a school. Principal of school which has the biometric system.

Topic: The use of remote Webcam technology to spy on kids
Issue: Privacy
Interviewers: A LANrev employee, and someone who opposes to use of technology to spy on kids

Topic: Health issues arising from the use of eBay to purchase medicine
Issue: Health
Interviewee wanted:
1. Manager or better working for an online auction/shopping website that allows medicine/drugs-shopping
2. Medic/Doctor/GP who knows auction/shopping websites

Topic: E-book piracy
Issue: The impact that E-book piracy is having on the publishing industry
People that I want to interview:
– Someone working in the publishing industry that is being affected by E-book piracy.
– An E-book pirate or uploader.

Topic: Google Earth Privacy issue
Issue: Privacy invasion ranging from personal to country
Who you want to interview: I have a secondary interviewee but I need the actual government person who might be censoring Google Earth or any kind of official people who might be doing this job in an organization censoring Google Earth for some reason.

Topic: A “iPhone Program” implemented in UK schools for students to rate teachers
Issue: Students abuse this power and teachers feel they have become slaves to student’s needs rather than how they should be doing their own method to teach.
Who you want to interview: An expert who knows a lot about how schools use technology to rate teachers.

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