This beginner’s course is for Primary and Post Primary teachers with little or no experience of working with computers.  No previous computer experience is required.

• Creating, saving & retrieving documents
• Basic editing and formatting
• Using Word Processing to support literacy & numeracy
• Introduction to PowerPoint presentations
• Using PowerPoint to enhance teaching & learning
• Using the Internet in the classroom
• Searching the Internet for classroom resources
• Creating, sending and organising email messages

This practical hands-on course will assist the participants to become comfortable working with the computer at school and at home. Participants will be able to complete the above tasks in class and will be given detailed handouts

To book a place on the course, please complete the application form and return to Dublin West Education Centre.

Application Form

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This course is for Primary and Post Primary teachers
Pre-requisites: Some experience of basic ICT tasks and Internet use

Topics covered:

• Creating ICT resources using the Internet
• Working with the Digital Camera
• Downloading photos from your camera & storing them on your computer
• Editing photos using Picasa
• Using Photo Story to create a digital story using images & sound

This practical hands-on course will assist the participants to become comfortable working with the computer at school and at home. Participants will be able to complete the above tasks in class and will be given detailed handouts.

To book a place on the course, please complete the application form and return to Dublin West Education Centre.

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Developing e-Learning in your School (Post Primary)
Course dates: Feb 6 – Mar 9, 2012.

Developing e-Learning in your School (Primary)
Course dates: Feb 20 – Mar 23, 2012.

Open for enrolment from Monday 19th December

Please go to www.ncte.ie/onlinecourses to book a place. Early booking is advised to ensure a place!

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Computer maintenance and useful applications for creating teaching resources (NCTE/T4)

The aim of the "Computer maintenance and useful applications for creating teaching resources" course is to enable teachers to develop their own teaching resources to meet their own particular needs. Designed by T4 in collaboration with NCTE for the post primary Design and Communication Graphics and Technology syllabuses, this course has relevance to teachers in the primary sector also.

The course will demonstrate how a number of IT applications can be integrated to produce interactive resources to suit the individual learning styles of their students.  As teachers use a desktop/laptop as a teaching tool, the basic maintenance and care of this hardware will also be an aspect of this course

Duration: The course is modular, 2.50 hours duration (10.00 hours in total, a 5th session may be added if required)
Venue: Dublin West Education
Dates: Tuesdays 27th March, 3rd, 17th and 24th April 2012
Times: 6.30-9.00pm

Prerequisites:
Participants should have basic ICT skills and have some experience of using the Internet.

Target Audience:
While originally designed for post primary teachers of technology subjects, in particular teachers of Design and Communications Graphics and Technology, the course is also of interest and relevant to primary teachers.

Course Content:
Unit 1 - Basic maintenance and care of desktop/laptop computers
While it is not feasible for teachers to maintain the computer hardware, it is feasible for them to maintain the system and application software. Computers get slower over time.  This is due to a combination of factors, all software related.  With regular maintenance, it is possible to keep computers running at their optimal speed.  This unit will deal with issues such as storage maintenance, scheduled tasks, disk imaging and malware.

Unit 2: Creating worksheets using MS Word 2007
This unit will deal with creating worksheets using MS Word.  A number of other applications will be used in the creation of the material such as SolidWorks and image capturing software.  Converting worksheets to Portable Document Format (pdf) using freeware where appropriate will also be addressed.

Unit 3: Creating worksheets using MS Publisher 2007
Microsoft Publisher gives you the opportunity to combine images, graphics and text in ways that will suit the production of most worksheets for the technology subjects. It is also a useful application for the production of design portfolios, reports, etc.

  As places are limited early booking is advised. There is a deposit of €10.00, refundable on completion of course.

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Scratch Courses for Teachers

Dates: Saturdays 3rd and 10th March 2012
Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

The Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI) and Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre are engaging in an initiative to develop and roll out teacher training in the use of Scratch (a visual programming language) in the classroom, funded by the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE).

Whole School Courses

Courses can be run as "whole school" events, taking place either in the Education Centre or in your own school   These courses are based on the specific requirements of a school and can cover a range of different topics from using a digital camera to using the internet in teaching and learning.

To request whole school training in ICT, please contact Mary or call 01 4528002

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