UICT Teacher Training Week 2014

Dear Teacher,

Welcome to our annual UICT Teacher Training Week.

This year we go full STEAM ahead with our 3D STEAM course featuring free innovative apps for the iPad. Create a 3D moveable figure or creature and print it using our 3D printers and go a step further by animating your 3D printouts. While in the Nerve Centre Derry/London Derry, teachers will explore how to design, fabricate, programme and showcase a simple automated robot, capturing and documenting their progress on video along the way.
For our Primary school teachers we offer you our very popular Introduction to iPads in the Classroom course, but be quick to book! And for the gamer in you try your hand at creating a few games using Scratch.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

All Belfast UICT courses will be held in Nerve Belfast at the Ulidia Resource Centre.
We are also holding UICT courses in the Nerve Centre Derry/London Derry.
Click here to view the full range of Nerve Centre Derry UICT courses.

For further details please contact:
Derry Courses:     Nerve Centre | Sharon Tosh | s.tosh@nervecentre.org
Belfast Courses:   Nerve Belfast | Veronica Tate | v.tate@nervecentre.org

As always all courses are free and offered on a first come first served basis, please book early as they tend to fill up within 1-2 days.

Tuesday 12th August  9:30 – 3:30

Learn the basics of using iPads, including sharing and backing up work, and get creative with a variety of apps that can be used in the Primary classroom to enhance teaching and learning in KS1 & KS2.

  BOOKED UP.  Waiting List Available.

Plan a script for a specific audience and record sound using microphones.
Assemble and edit multiple tracks using sound files in Garageband and produce a final mixdown.
UICT Desirable Features covered: Working with Sound

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Wednesday 13th August  9:30 – 3:30

Learn how film and animation can be used to enhance teaching and learning in KS2 and KS3.
Go through the basics of the film-making process, use a variety of apps on the iPad and create a finished moving image production using iMovie.
UICT Desirable Features covered: Film & Animation (Primary), Moving Images (Post-Primary).

    BOOKED UP.  Waiting List Available.

Explore a variety of simple animation techniques. Use stop-motion apps and iMovie on the iPad to create a finished animation.
UICT Desirable Features covered: Film & Animation.

  BOOKED UP.  Waiting List Available.

Learn about the basics of photography and composition using a variety of apps to manipulate and edit images to create digital graphics and artworks.
UICT Desirable Features covered: Film & Animation.

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Thursday 14th August  9:30 – 3:30

Learn the basics of programming using Scratch – a free, easy programming language for creating interactive stories, games, music and art.
UICT Desirable Features covered: Exploring Programming.

    BOOKED UP IN BELFAST.  Waiting List Available.

Learn how plan, design and create a variety of documents such as newspapers, comics, and leaflets using Comic Life and Pages on the iPad.
UICT Desirable Features covered: Desktop Publishing.

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Friday 15th August  9:30 – 3:30

Plan, create, produce and publish a multitrack podcast with added special effects using appropriate software such as Audacity and Garageband on the iPad. UICT Desirable Features covered: Exploring Music & Sound.

    BOOKED UP IN BELFAST.  Waiting List Available.

Learn how moving images can be used to enhance teaching and learning in KS2 and KS3.
Go through the basics of the film-making process and create a finished film using MovieMaker.
UICT Desirable Features covered: Film & Animation (Primary), Moving Images (Post-Primary).

 

For Primary teachers, a hands-on taster of 3D Printers that can make almost anything. Explore how design and 3D printers can support teaching and learning across the KS 2 curriculum. You will design your very own 3D creatures and figures on the iPad and animate them using Stop-Motion. This course will introduce teachers to open-source software and processes that can fuse STEAM (STEM + Arts) and Using ICT with the Primary curriculum.

Please note that there are two UICT STEAM courses in the Nerve Centre Derry.
CLICK HERE to book Full STEAM Ahead PRIMARY  in Nerve Centre Derry
CLICK HERE to book Full STEAM Ahead POST-PRIMARY in Nerve Centre Derry