Spending your ICT Grant

Target Audience: Principals and ICT Co-ordinating Teachers

Date: Thursday 25th March

Location: Laois Education Centre

Places Available: - 25 Places

Objectives of this workshop:

• To enable schools to spend their ICT grants effectively ("New Classrooms ICT Grant" November and "ICT Infrastructure Grant" December 2009).

• To provide participants with practical ICT purchasing advice and ICT purchasing options.

• To provide participants with an insight into the future ICT infrastructural devlelopmnet of their schools.

Introduction to PCs and file Management (2.5 hours)

CODE: 10LS574

DATE: Tuesday 23 March 2010

TIME: 7.00 pm—9.30 pm

VENUE: Laois Education Centre

An Introduction to Internet & email course (Primary & Post Primary) (2.5 hours)

COURSE CODE: 10LS576

DATES: Monday 22nd March

TIME: 7.00pm—9.30pm

VENUE: Laois Education Centre

An Introduction Digital Media (5 hours) (Primary & Post Primary)

COURSE CODE: 10LS569

DATES: Monday 1 & 8 March 2010

TIME: 7.00pm—9.30pm

VENUE: Laois Education Centre

ICT & Maths (in collaboration with Project Maths) Post Primary

COURSE CODE: 10LS581

DATES: Saturday 17 & 24 April 2010

TIME: 9.30am- 3.30pm

VENUE: Laois Education Centre

Introductory Modules*: (Primary and Post Primary)

It is advisable that teachers intending to participate on the Project Maths course be comfortable with the following:

· Introduction to PCs and file Management

· Creating presentations and worksheets using ICT

· Introduction to Digital Media

· Introduction to the Internet and e-mail

Special Needs & ICT Learning Support Course (Primary)

COURSE CODE: 10LS572

DATES: Thursday 15 22 & 29 Apr & 10 May

TIMES: 7.00 pm—9.30 pm

VENUE: Laois Education Centre

Learning Support teachers at both primary and post-primary levels
Mainstream teachers who have students with learning difficulties in their class and teachers who have a large number of disadvantaged students in their class may also find this course useful.

The course is intended to provide teachers with information on ICT use in learning support, the confidence to introduce it into their own classes and specific strategies, tools and resources to use in the integration of ICT into the curriculum.

Aims to

• Explore ways in which ICT can be used to support individual students' needs
• Provide exposure to online resources/software which the teacher can use to remediate those needs
• Explore the use of ICT to motivate students and enable students and teachers to collaborate

Developing your school’s e-Learning plan

Introductory Workshop (1)

COURSE CODE: 10LS578

DATE: Tuesday 27 April

TIME: 7.00pm—9.00pm

VENUE: Laois Education Centre

Introductory Workshop (2)

COURSE CODE: 10LS577

DATE: Tuesday 23 March

TIMES: 7.00pm—9.30pm

VENUE: Tullamore Area

The NCTE’s new online course aims to help primary and post primary teachers integrate ICT across the school and into learning and teaching.

The course is itself an e-learning course which consists of five two-hour modules.