Courses 2009

Advanced Users of Wikis and Blogs

You have started a Wiki and/or Blog and now you would like to add more to it to make it more interesting and informative for your readers. Find out what widgets and gadgets are available for education use  to bring your blog alive. Discuss what content could be added and how it can be presented in many different ways. Personalise your wiki/blog so it reflects the message you are sending.

Pre-requisite: You must already have a blog and/or a wiki that you are working on.

mimio: Classroom Teaching and Learning

You have a mimio in the classroom but you are not sure how to use it for teaching and learning purposes. Find out how you can use the mimio, mimio software and other software on your computer to develop activities and teaching models using the interactive properties of the mimio hardware.

Encouraging Students to be better researchers; is there life after Google?

Is there life after Google? How can we encourage students to be better researchers? What other tools and software can you use in the classroom? What skills do I need as a teacher to facilitate learning and demonstrate advanced researching skills? Find out how you and your students can become better researchers. Come prepared with topic ideas in Science and Social Studies.

Multiple Intelligences and ICT

Everybody has one or several intelligences that are more highly developed than other intelligences. Our students like to learn in different ways and using technology is one of those mediums. Experiment with a multitude of online and offline applications that cater for the different intelligences. See how other ICT technologies apart from computers can be used to further develop those intelligences. Plan your next unit using those applications and tools.

You will need to know what your topics are for planning purposes. Please bring laptops with all leads and ensure that your laptop is not blocked to receiving wireless connection.

This course is suitable for all levels Primary, Intermediate and Secondary

Wikis, blogs and cool Web2.0 tools

Create a class website with individual pages for your children to showcase their work. Use the free tools available on the internet to make this happen. Experiment with free software that will publish your students’ work in ways you have never seen before. Identify the tools that you are going to be able to use with your students in the class. Find out how simple this can be and transform the teaching, learning and assessment in your classroom practice.

You will need to have examples of student’s work on your laptop this can be any WordProcessed documents, Word, PowerPoints, Keynotes; photos of art work, handwriting samples, test results; Kidspiration and Inspiration documents, in fact any work they have completed. Please bring laptops with all leads and ensure that your laptop is not blocked to receiving wireless connection.

This course is suitable for all levels Primary, Intermediate and Secondary

101 ways to Digital Cameras

Find out how to use your school digital or digital video camera in an innovative child-centered integrated setting, by learning how to use the features on your own school or personal camera. Use this new found knowledge to take part in a variety of activities and develop a bank of activities that can be used in your school at your own particular level. See how a variety of software can be used with digital cameras. Some of the software that could be used is Microsoft Office, Kidspiration or Inspiration, KidPix and movie making software such as MovieMaker (Windows) and iMovie (Mac)

CI, The road to Curriculum Integration

There are several stages teachers can go through before they are fully integrating ICT into all curriculum areas resulting in a child centred environment. Some of these stages could comprise of a complete change in teaching style. This course will enable you to identify where you are on the Curriculum Integration scale and establish what you need to do to further develop yourself as an ICT literate classroom practitioner. Participants will see examples of teaching and learning at the different stages and collect a bank of activities, ideas and management techniques that can be used back in the class.

Get to know your Laptop

Learn how to operate and navigate in Windows XP, Vista or Apple OS10.

Participants will learn how to find programmes, organise folders and files, perform basic troubleshooting and find out how to do basic computer maintenance. See how to save to computer, CD and memory sticks. Learn how to put music on your laptops and organise and find your photos. Finally learn some tips and tricks when working with Word.

Early Childhood only

Early Childhood only

Digital Portfolios

Digital portfolios are a digitized cumulative assessment of an individual’s ability displaying a wide range of work. Using a variety of digital tools and software develop a template that can be used in your classroom to show case student achievement. Discover how digital portfolios can be created for your student and school needs.

Early Childhood only

Higher Order Thinking & Graphic Organisers

Integrate Higher Order Thinking and ICT by looking at the software that can be used to develop and organise thinking skills and processes through using a myriad of graphic organisers. See how ICT can be used with Revised Blooms Taxonomy and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences and how complex ideas can be communicated through the use of software. Use this new information to develop ideas for  units of work that can be used in the classroom.

Create your own Webquest

Have you looked for a suitable Webquest on the internet and found that they are not quite what you are looking for or are not entirely appropriate? Then create your own from scratch! Come to this course knowing what you would like to make a Webquest about, bring any available resources online, digital or non-digital and then work through developing the Webquest right from the beginning to the end.

Word from beginners to expertise
Participants  will

• use menu bars and toolbars
• experience basics of opening, typing, saving files
• Edit and format text
• Use text boxes and graphics
• Add borders and headings
• Create basic activities
• Work with bullets (formatting, creating your own)
• Use the draw tools to create graphics
• Use and extend draw tools
• Extend formatting skills
• Work with tables and graphs
• Create activities

All Versions of Word will be covered

PowerPoint

Know the basics in PowerPoint XP, 2003, 2004 or 2007 or just starting out? This course will take you through from the first setting up of PowerPoint slideshow to all the bells and whistles that will tastefully enhance your presentations. Learn how to hyperlink to other programmes and the internet. Experience how you can insert photos, movies and sounds to create a dynamic slideshow. Prepare a presentation that you can use back in your classroom.

Junior Literacy

ICT integrated into Literacy will encourage even the most reluctant reader or writer to become more interested and motivated to read or write. Using software such as Kidspiration, KidPix, Word or PowerPoint can enhance your literacy programme and give students another choice of how to develop new ideas. In this course you can create Writing and Reading activities for the classroom and experiment with WordProcessing and multimedia software to see how it can be used in the literacy Programme.
 

Senior Literacy

ICT integrated into Literacy will encourage even the most reluctant reader or writer to become more interested and motivated to read or write. Using software such as Inspiration, Reason!Able, Word or PowerPoint can enhance your literacy programme and give students another choice of how to develop new ideas. In this course you can create Writing and Reading activities for the classroom and experiment with WordProcessing and multimedia software to see how it can be used in the literacy Programme.
 

 Learning Stories

Learn to create learning stories using a variety of ICT tools and programmes. Use shortcuts and learn some tips and tricks to enhance your stories. Find out how to use formatting tools, graphics and photos in creative ways to create exciting and informative reports.

Early Childhood only
 

Early Childhood only

Using Computers in your Junior Maths Programme

Enhance your existing math programme and stimulate children’s learning by using computers and other digital tools to make challenging problem solving activities. Use a variety of software such as Office, Kidspiration and KidPix to create these math activities for your students. Use draw and table tools to create mathematical problems and observe how using these programmes can reinforce concepts visually.

Using Computers in your Senior Maths Programme

Enhance your existing math programme and stimulate children’s learning by using computers and other digital tools to make challenging problem solving activities. Use a variety of software such as Office, Inspiration and Hot Potatoes to create these math activities for your students. Use draw and table tools to create mathematical problems and observe how using these programmes can reinforce concepts visually.

iMovie for Macs

Learn how to use iMovie, iTunes and iPhoto to make digital story books, movies and interactive activities using your Mac computer or laptop in your classroom. This course will show you how to use the software and integrate it together into iMovie and iDVD to make an original film that showcases all of you and your students’ talent. Requirements: Bring your own laptop, digital camera or/and digital video camera and leads, music CDs, photos and video footage. Please ensure that you have the latest version of the software and any digital camera software loaded.

Please bring a laptop, digital camera and/or a video camera (with charged batteries)

MovieMaker for Windows

Learn how to use MovieMaker, Media Player and digital photo editing software to make digital story books, movies and interactive activities using your Windows computer or laptop in your classroom. This course will show you how to use the software and integrate it together into Moviemaker to make an original film that showcases all of you  and your students’ talent. Requirements: Bring your own laptop, digital camera or/and digital video camera and leads, music CDs, photos and video footage. Please ensure that you have the latest version of the software and any digital camera software loaded.

Please bring a laptop, digital camera and/or a video camera (with charged batteries)