ICT Courses
Tfc (ICT) sa bhunscoil
ICT
Overview
Is é is aidhm don gcúrsa seo ná scileanna an mhúinteora a fhorbairt chun a chur ar a chumas/ar a cumas úsáid éifeachtach a bhaint as TFC i seomra ranga Gaelscoileanna nó scoileanna Gaeltachta. Foghlaimeoidh na múinteoirí conas mar a aimsítear acmhainní oiriúnacha ar líne atá ar fáil trí mheán na Gaeilge agus conas mar a dhéantar acmhainní don mhúineadh agus don bhfoghlaim.
Is féidir na scileanna a fhoghlaimítear agus an t-ábhar a chlúdaítear sa chúrsa seo a úsáid ar chláir bhána idirghníomhacha, leis.
Duration 7.5 hours
Skill Level Basic
Sector Primary
Target Audience Múinteoirí i nGaelscoileanna / Scoileanna Gaeltachta nach bhfuil ach beagán eolais acu ar TFC agus ar mhaith leo tuilleadh a fhoghlaim ar úsáid na TFC chun tacú le múineadh agus foghlaim trí mheán na Gaeilge.
Prerequisites Méid áirithe taithí ar tascanna bunúsacha TFC a dhéanamh (comhaid a oscailt, a chur in eagar, a shábháil, a dhúnadh) agus ba mhaith an rud é dá mbeadh ar chumas an fhoghlaimeora brabhsálaí idirlín a úsáid.
Course Objectives
Cuirfear béim ar leith ar mhúineadh agus ar fhoghlaim. Beidh ar chumas na rannpháirtithe:
• Comhéadan Gaeilge a dhéanamh ar ríomhaire an tseomra ranga
• Uirlisí atá ar fáil trí mheán na Gaeilge agus atá saor in aisce a úsáid (Tux paint agus Google san áireamh)
• Bogearraí taispeána a úsáid chun acmhainn shimplí don seomra ranga a chruthú
• Scéal digiteach a dhéanamh ina n-úsáidtear íomhánna, fuaim agus insint
• Taifeadadh fuaime a úsáid mar uirlis sa seomra ranga
• Vicí ranga/scoile a dhéanamh agus a úsáid
Course Content
Tá trí mhodúl sa chúrsa:
• Modúl 1 – An Ríomhaire agus an Ghaeilge
• Modúl 2 – Ag Cruthú Áiseanna le TFC
• Modúl 3 – Forbairt TFC le Vicí
Cúrsa praiticiúil é seo. Déanfaidh na rannpháirtithe suíomhanna idirlín éagsúla a chíoradh a d’fhéadfaí a úsáid le haghaidh foghlama agus múinte i nGaelscoil agus i scoil Gaeltachta. Ina theannta sin beidh an cúrsa dírithe ar acmhainní TFC a chruthú agus déanfaidh na rannpháirtithe acmhainn a mbeidh íomhánna, téacs agus fuaim ag gabháil léi agus roinnfidh siad é ar a víci féin. Déanfar é seo i modúl deiridh an chúrsa.
Baineann an cúrsa seo leis na míreanna seo a leanas den gCreat TFC de chuid an NCCA:
Réimse C: Ag cruthú, ag cur in iúl agus ag déanamh comhar
Réimse F: Eolas, scileanna agus coincheapanna bunúsacha
Réimse S: Tionchar sóisialta agus pearsanta TFC
Réimse T: Ag smaoineamh go criticiúil agus go cruthaitheach
Máire Ní Riain
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Wednesday 8th, 22nd,& 29th February | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
An Introduction to Developing an e-Learning Plan in your school
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
This introductory session will provide the ICT coordinating teacher (or any teacher involved in ICT planning in their school) with the necessary information and tools to develop an eLearning plan for their school. Further sessions will lead on from this depending on demand
Willie McTiernan
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Thursday 9th February | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
Twitter for Education
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
Module 1- Introducing the layout of Twitter, setting up an account, following educators/classes, sending a tweet. Discovering the power of using lists in Twitter, intruding the pupils to hastags for education, discover the Tweetdeck/Hootsuit Twitter apps Vs the internet site.
Module 2- Using Twitter for specific subjects eg - Creating a multimedia tweets, designing a background, tweeting a book review, subject facts, asking questions, conducting polls/surveys, Twitter pen-pal, sharing class information with parents.
Module 3- How to set up your account to be private and the importance of monitoring of what you tweet. As social media becomes more popular so do Tweet-ups, we will discuss the safety issues of using social media and how to encourage safe tweeting.
Overview:
This course aims to develop your ICT skills in the filed of social media, harnessing Twitter for educational purposes. We will go over the layout, Twitter apps, how to use Twitter in the classroom/subjects/connect with pupils off-site and the local community in a safe way. Other examples of what we will be covering are: Tweet about upcoming due dates or assignments. Provide the class with a running news feed. Create a list. Coordinate assignments. Track a hash tag. Connect with the community. Follow the issues. Write a story or poem. Ask questions. Set up a foreign language news stream. Role play. Take and share notes. Connect classrooms/ pen-pals. Engage parents. Facilitate research. Track the government. Write reviews. Post supplementary materials. Design a background. Compare religions. Take a poll. Go on a scavenger hunt. Track weather patterns. Create a character. Create a progressive poem. Post math puzzles. Create an online art gallery. Join #EdChatIE
Skill Level:
Basic
Course Duration:
2.5 hours
Target Audience:
Both Primary and Post Primary teachers are more than welcome. Your level of ICT knowledge is irrelevant, we can walk you through this course if you are armed with a sense of curiosity.
Course Objectives:
With a particular focus on teaching, sharing, connecting and learning, participants will be enabled to:
• Share multimedia tweets
• Connect with other educators/classes and educational hashtags.
• Apply good classroom practice in relation to internet safety.
• Discover more about Twitter internet site, TweetDeck and Hootsuite pc apps.
Michelle Moloney
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Tuesday 21st February | Time: 7.00- 9.30pm |
Introduction to Scratch
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
Course Content
Module 1- Introduction to Scratch, layout of the graphical user interface (stage, sprite, background), create and manage multiple forms of media to create your own sprite and background), ending with the creation of an animation in Sprite.
Module 2- Exploring the process of coding a game ending with the creation of a basic game in Scratch.
Module 3- Combining the animation and game to create a more complex game.
Overview:
This course aims to develop the basic computer programming skills apply these skills to creating an animation and game. Become familiar with the Scratch layout. Create an animation and game and become familiar with the programming tools. Become familiar with troubleshooting skills in fixing programming issues. Use useful Internet sites for learning and sharing Scratch. Using your own resources (images, music, voice) to create your own game and animation. Using troubleshooting skills to resolve issues. Scratch can be used to create teacher resources (you can even create quiaes (advanced)), pupile can create their own games or you can show your pupils
Skill Level:
Basic
Course Duration:
2.5 hours
Target Audience:
Both Primary and Post Primary teachers with any computer knowledge are welcome.
Pre-requisites:
A sense of curiosity and a love of learning is the main pre-requisite. Computer programming is not difficult, you are just breaking down the instructions to minute levels and the computer will follow.
Course Objectives:
With a particular focus on learning and sharing Scratch projects, participants will be enabled to:
1. Find their way around the Scratch GUI.
2. Import sounds and images to create their own resources/games.
3. Create a Scratch animation.
4. Create a Scratch game.
5. Enhance their communication skills (by breaking down instruction to the porgamm).
6. Enhance problem identification, formulation & solution.
7. Enhance troubleshooting capabilities.
Michelle Moloney
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Tuesday 28th February | Time: 7.00-9.30pm |
ICT Maths 2
ICT
Post Primary Teachers
Using dynamic mathematics software to support the teaching of Strands 3, 4
and 5 of the post-primary mathematics curriculum.
The aim of the "ICT & Maths, Part 2" course is to enable teachers to use ICT and mathematics
software to support the teaching of Strands 3, 4 and 5 of the post-primary mathematics curriculum.
Designed by the Project Maths Development Team in collaboration with NCTE the course is the
second in a series of ICT & Maths courses on the use of GeoGebra, the free dynamic mathematics software, to
support the teaching of Strand 3 (Number), Strand 4 (Algebra) and Strand 5 (Functions).
The course is accompanied by a support wiki which contains exemplars of ICT for mathematics
including the use of digital projectors, visualisers and demonstrations of how ICT applications and
equipment can be used in learning and teaching. Teachers are encouraged to work collaboratively
and create and share interactive resources on the wiki.
Duration The course is modular and 7.5 hours in total (3 sessions of 2.5 hours duration each)
Robert Chaney
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Monday 27th February, 5th and 12th March | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
Getting Started with your Laptop and Digital Projector
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
Overview:
The course focuses on the development of basic ICT skills for those with little or no experience of ICT, particularly with regard to its use in the classroom. The aim is to enable teachers to begin to use ICT in their classrooms independently and pursue other NCTE courses at the Basic level with confidence. The skills learnt and content covered in this course are also applicable to interactive whiteboards.
Skill Level:
Beginners
Course Duration:
7.5 hours
Target Audience:
Both Primary and Post Primary teachers who wish to gain basic ICT skills for use in teaching and learning.
Pre-requisites:
None - participants do not require ICT skills in advance of this course.
Course Objectives:
With a particular focus on teaching and learning, participants will be enabled to:
• create and edit a simple document using word processing software
• describe files and folders and set up a basic folder structure for their own laptop or computer
• find online educational resources using an internet browser
• apply good classroom practice in relation to internet safety and copyright
• set up an email account and send and receive emails
• create a simple digital presentation using presentation software
• connect a digital projector to a laptop or teaching computer
• describe some practical applications of ICT to support the development of literacy and numeracy
• describe how ICT can support students with special educational needs
Course Content
The course is divided into three modules:
Module 1 – Creating and editing a document; using files and folders
Module 2 – Internet & Email
Module 3 – Digital presentations
These three modules address the course’s learning objectives above in a very practical, hands-on fashion. The process of, for instance, setting up an email account is covered using a step-by-step approach with each participant at a computer.
Jennifer Walsh
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: TBC |
| Date: Wednesday 22nd, 29th Feb and 7th March | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
Microsoft Word for Beginners
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
· First steps in Word Processing
o Opening Ms Word and creating a new document
o Saving the document
o Closing a document
· Entering text into a document
o Selecting text
o Editing text
· Formatting text
o Changing text appearance
o Applying bullets and Numbers
· Inserting an image
Jerry O Dwyer
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Wednesday 14th March | Time: 7.00 – 9.30pm |
Creating ICT Resources
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
(this is not the basic course, some experience required)
Module 1- Creating ICT Resources using the Internet- Scoilnet, Imagebank, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Internet Safety and Downloading sound and video files.
Module 2- Creating ICT Resources using Digital Media- Using a digital camera, Picasa, recording and using sound.
Module 3- Creating ICT Resources with Digital Storytelling- using Photo Story 3
Overview:
This course aims to develop the basic ICT skills many teachers already have and enable them to apply these skills to creating ICT resources for teaching and learning. Useful Internet sites for teaching and learning, digital cameras and creating digital stories using images and sound are among the key topics covered.
The course focuses on:
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Special Educational Needs.
The skills learnt and content covered in this course are also applicable to interactive whiteboards. Completion of this course, together with another short ICT skills course, equips teachers with the pre-requisites for other NCTE basic level courses.
Skill Level:
Basic
Course Duration:
7.5 hours
Target Audience:
Both Primary and Post Primary teachers with limited knowledge of and/or confidence in ICT use in the classroom who need to develop their basic skills and apply them in the classroom.
Pre-requisites:
Some experience of carrying out basic ICT tasks (opening, editing, saving, closing files) and ideally have used an Internet browser. Completion of a beginner’s ICT skills course will generally satisfy these prerequisites.
Course Objectives:
With a particular focus on teaching and learning, participants will be enabled to:
• access and retrieve educational resources from the Internet (using websites such as Scoilnet, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Imagebank among others)
• apply good classroom practice in relation to internet safety and copyright
• upload digital photos to a computer and carry out basic image editing
• record and edit sound using software
• create a digital story using images, text, narration and music
• describe practical applications of ICT to support the development of literacy and numeracy
• describe how ICT can support students with special educational needs
Course Content
The course is divided into three modules. Education centres may offer the three modules together as one course, or separately as a shorter course.
Module 1 – Creating ICT Resources using the Internet
Module 2 – Creating ICT Resources using Digital Media
Module 3 – Creating ICT Resources with Digital Storytelling
Participants use computers, digital cameras and widely available software programmes to create resources. These can be saved for later use in the classroom. Participants are also guided through the myriad of Internet sites relevant to teaching and learning, with a particular focus on Irish curriculum-related resources applicable to literacy, numeracy and special educational needs.
Jennifer Walsh
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: tbc |
| Date: Wednesday 21st, 28th March and 18th April | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
Creating your School’s Website or Blog using Scoilnet Blogs
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
Set up your school website using a Scoilnet Blog. This course will cover the following
Creating your school website, Adding and administering users, Adding content, including text, images, video, blogs, podcasts and multimedia.
This course will cover an overview of the use of blogging in the classroom. This course is a follow on course from WEB2.0: for Learning. Learn how to create a website or blog for your school, based on the new Scoilnet webhosting/blogging service to schools.
One 2.5 hour session with a follow up session by agreement with course participants
Willie McTiernan
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Thursday 23rd February | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
Using a Visualiser in the Classroom
ICT
This course is suitable for Primary / Post Primary Teachers
Visualisers or document cameras can be used with digital projectors to easily and quickly display "non digital" content and activities to a class.
Visualisers can also be used in conjunction with interactive whiteboards. There are a variety of different visualisers on the market.
This course will give an overview of the different types of visualisers and the classroom tasks for which they are useful.
Willie McTiernan
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Thursday 22nd March | Time: 7.00 – 9.30pm |
Interactive Whiteboard Advanced
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
A look at some of the advanced features of ActivInspire (Promethean Software) Making your IWB more Interactive
Using ActivInspire to create quizzes, action buttons, magic ink, hide and reveal, containers.
Willie McTiernan
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Monday 26th March | Time: 7.00 – 9.30pm |
Microsoft Powerpoint for Beginners
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
• First steps with Presentations
o Creating a new presentation
o New slides
o Saving a presentation
• Entering text and images
o Inputting and formatting text
o Working with pictures and images
• Slide shows
o Slide transitions
o Delivering a presentation
Jerry O Dwyer
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Tuesday 27th March | Time: 7.00 – 9.30pm |
Digital Media/Camera
ICT
Primary and Post Primary TeachersDigital Cameras: classroom use.
Bring along your digital camera, take some pictures, transfer pictures to PC/laptop. Easy editing,
Ideas for classroom use.
Willie McTiernan
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Wednesday 18th April | Time: 7.00-9.30pm |
WEB 2.0: Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis
ICT
Primary and Post Primary Teachers
An overview of web 2.0 tools and their classroom uses: wikis, rss feeds and social bookmarking. Setting up a blog using the Scoilnet Blogging service , making a post, creating pages, uploading images, sound files and video clips to your blog. Make a podcast and upload the podcast to the school blog (using Scoilnet Blog).
Willie McTiernan
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Thursday 19th and 26th April | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
ICT & Language in the Primary Classroom (NCTE/MLPSI)
ICT
This course is suitable for Primary Teachers
ICT & Modern Language in the Primary Classroom (NCTE/MLPSI). This is a new course, for all teachers in primary schools and special schools, including resource/learning support teachers.
This short course focuses on practical skills and ideas for using ICT in the teaching and learning of languages. The skills covered can be used in the teaching of Gaeilge, English, EAL and modern languages. It features various types of software/websites and their uses in the language lesson. Teachers are enabled to develop content and to show pupils how they can create their own content. The majority of the websites and software used are free to access and suit schools with varying ICT infrastructures, from one computer in the classroom to a suite of computers in the school. In addition, much of what is covered in the course can be used with interactive whiteboards.
Two 2.5 hour sessions
tbc
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Tues 24th April and 1st May | Time: 7 to 9.30pm |
Social Media and School
ICT
This course is suitable for Primary / Post Primary Teachers
The Growth of Social Media (facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia Blogs, Twitter) and the implications for teachers parents and pupils: New ways of accessing information and learning, safe use of the internet: privacy issues and cyberbullying
Willie McTiernan
| Fee: €0.00 | Location: Kilkenny Education Centre |
| Date: Monday 30th April | Time: 7.00 – 9.30pm |