FÍS - Film in Schools Project

Please note the regional screening for Fís 2010 will take place in The Storm Cinema Portlaoise on Wed 26 May.
Please forward your film to Laois Education Centre on or before Wed 19 May 2010. Please contact the Education Centre if you require help with your film.

PEP School Websites Exhibition

Congratulation to all schools who exhibited their websites as part of the PEP which Laois Education Centre runs with the cooperation of Offaly County Enterprise Board. Following is a list of the lastest websites:
www.broughallns.ie
www.stphilomenasns.ie
www.stpatricksnsclonbulloue.ie
www.mucklaghns.ie
www.gortnamonans.ie

Scoilnet Maps Support Sessions - Basic and Advanced

COURSE CODE: 10LS580

DATE: Thursday 25 March 2010

TIME: 7.00 pm—9.30 pm

Venue: Laois Education Centre

Course duration:
This course consists of two modules each designed to be of 2.5 hours in duration.
Target Audience:
This course is aimed at post primary Geography teachers and has been designed to help them to integrate IT into their work in sourcing, developing and organising relevant digital resources. These support sessions will highlight how Scoilnet Maps can support the Geography curriculum and enliven the Geography classroom. The course will demonstrate how Scoilnet Maps provides access to all of Ordnance Survey Ireland’s maps and photographs as well as a range of European and world maps. Participants will also be shown how to access and utilise the Scoilnet Maps resources capability, which is a facility that provides teachers with thousands of resources and the option to develop, organise and even share their own resources too.

Course Content/Topics:
Scoilnet Maps Support Session – Level 1 (BASIC) 2.5 hours
Based on using the website, the basics covers:

  • Logging on
  • Website Layout and the Toolbar
  • Selecting Maps
  • Search
  • Printing
  • Measuring Distance

Scoilnet Maps Support Session – Level 2 (ADVANCED) 2.5 hours
Building on the skills covered in the basics course, the advanced course will cover:

  • Resources Explorer and Searching
  • Uploading Resources
  • Working with Uploaded Resources to Create Playlists
  • Creating Pupil Accounts
  • Finding and Viewing Thematic Data

Pre-requisites:
Participants attending this course must be familiar with using the Internet & Email, uploading and downloading files, as well as the basic ICT tasks (opening, editing, saving, closing files, etc).

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