The teacher training at NiLS started on 24.11.2009
On 24.11.2009 the teacher training for the ITEMS course “Einführung in Funktionen (Klasse 6)” (Introduction into functions) started. The teachers where introduced into the goals and concepts of the ITEMS project. Then the teachers enrolled in the ITEMS teacher training course. This course is used in the next time to give teachers help when they start to teach the real course.
Every teacher got a copy of the course and was enrolled as a teacher in his course, which he will give in the near future.
At the end of course, a short questionnaire gave feedback about the impression the course made.
All teachers where very much convinced about the usefulness of the training session and the use of Moodle in general and the presented ITEMS course.
All teachers wanted more ITEMS courses like this.
Most teachers expected a positive reaction of the children. On the other hand, the teachers think that the needed IT competences of the children are at high level for the age group. The same holds for the teachers. No wonder that most teachers urgently wanted more training to use Moodle.
After having practised the courses, the teachers will come back and fill in the next questionnaire reporting about their results.
The International Expert Science Conference InfoKomTeh 2009 - The New Vision of Future Tecnologies took place on October 28th and 29th 2009 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference was organized by European House Ljubljana.
The conference presented the possibilities of information and communication technologies in education, medicine, administration, government etc.
The International Conference InfoKomTeh 2009 was partly financed by The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology and Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Enterpreneurship and Foreign Investments.
Project ITEMS was presented by Breda Poličar. The participants of the conference, especially the teachers, showed a great interest in ITEMS project modules.
The presentations can be found on the conference website http://www.infokomteh.com/,
http://www.infokomteh.com/Admin/Docs/Zbornik%20celotnih%20prispevkov%20mednarodne%20konference%20InfoKomTeh%202009%203.pdf , ITEMS presentation starts on the page 496 – 502. The abstracts is also available in the printed version.
ITEMS presenatation in slovenian language:
KAKO UPORABLJAM SPLETNO UČILNICO PRI POUČEVANJU MATEMATIKE
Christian Wulff, prime minister of Lower saxony opened the “Tag der Medienkompetenz” (Day of media competence) in Hannover on 5.11.2009. At this day, teachers and representatives of educational institutions, had the opportunity to get information about latest developments in the field of media and education.
ITEMS was represented by Karl Sarnow, who gave a presentation about the project at the booth of the lower saxony teacher training insitution NILS.
The presentation was well accepted and several teachers subscribed immediately to the teacher training for the ITEMS course “Einführung in Funktionen” (grade 6).
On October 28, a group of teachers at Christian Gymnasium Hermannsburg followed a 3 hour workshop on Moodle in general and worked with ITEMS as one of the good examples of Moodle use in ordinary school life. The interactive parts of the ITEM “Introduction to functions (grade 6)” made some impressions and inspired to more contact with ITEMS modules.
The image shows Jürgen Ganzer (left) and Karl Sarnow (right) pointing to ITEMS.
