Courses+and+Conferences

Announcements for courses and conferences related to ICT

This is a space where you can find out about courses and conferences taking place in your area.
Peer Coaching 2011. A new [|Peer Coaching] course will take place in 2011. It will probably be held at Algoa College and is open to teachers in the PE and Uitenhage districts. Districts will be notified officially by SchoolNet SA and they in turn will invite principals to nominate teachers to become their school peer coach. If you are interested please approach you principal and ask him or her to contact the district office regarding details. The course involves attending 8 sessions over a period of about 10 months. Sessions are held on Saturdays from 8:00am to 4:00pm. The coach who attends the sessions will then work with one or two colleagues at their school to work on the three elements of Lesson Design, Coaching Skills and ICT integration. Teachers work together on lesson improvement.

Intel Elements Course. [|Intel Elements] introduces teachers to Project Based Learning which can be run over three one day sessions. I anticipate doing the first session at the start of the December holidays - Monday 13 December. The course is designed to be self-paced and participants can design a project to be used in their classroom in 2011. We can then do the second day at the end of the holidays, such as the last Thursday or Friday, and the final session on the first Saturday in term 1. If you are interested please contact Dezlin Jacobs who is the project manager at SchoolNet. Her address is dezlin@schoolnet.org.za Another option has been approved and that is to run a second Elements group over three days starting on Tuesday 14 December and going through to Thursday 16 December. You can choose either option. GETTING STARTED COURSE This course is organised in a modular format (14 modules) with the minimum requirement to finish is 26 hours to get certification. It assists educators and learners for efffective teaching and learning with the help of computers. Some interesting modules include but limited -developing 21th century skills, fostering critical thinking and collaboration, applying word processing, multimedia, spreadsheet and exploring the internet. You need not be a computer expert. For those who have no experience (like mouse handling) one can take extra hours for more practical work. For more information contact dezlin@schoolnet.org.za Unfortunately we have run out of funding for this particular project as of 1 August 2011. We are trusting for more funding in the new year!