Training Material for IT Certification

The Mobile Classroom, by James Messer, is a great ICT resource providing videos to help you with some of your most common questions about personal computer technology. The content is aimed at anyone who has a connection to the Internet.



James also provides specialized video training material for some IT industry certifications including CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, Microsoft 70-680 and Nmap at his Professor Messer website.

These videos run approximately from ten to twenty minutes and are all hosted on Professor Messer'sYoutube Channel.

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Great Tutorials from GCFLearnFree

GCFLearnFree provide "quality, innovative online learning opportunities" for anyone who wants to improve their technology, literacy or mathematics skills.

There are over 200 tutorials available including topics such as Facebook, Microsoft office, open office, computer basics, email and Internet safety.

GCFLearnFree also provide free online classes, for the Microsoft applications, where you can learn to use these applications with the help of an online instructor.

You can also create an account to store your own personal profile and learning history.

A very useful resource indeed!

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Free Online Training for Language Teachers

Jürgen Wagner, from the E-Learning department of the Landesinstitut für Pädagogik und Medien [LPM] in Saarbrücken, Germany is hosting a series of free webinars for language teachers during September.

To participate simply send an email to Jurgen, in advance of the webinar, using the following address: JWagner*AT*lpm.uni-sb.de

Webinar 1: How to use Spotlight Magazine in the EFL classroom
by Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief of Spotlight-magazine, München

• Date: Thursday 9th September 2010
• Time: 5pm - 6.30pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/spotlight.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/inezsharp

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar postponed. To be rescheduled

Webinar 2: Google Docs in the Foreign Language Classroom
by Patricia Donaghy, Inchicore College of Further Education in Dublin, Ireland

• Date: Thursday 23rd September 2010
• Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/googledocs.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/googledocs

This is my webinar and it is aimed at teachers who have not used google docs before. During the webinar participants will have an opportunity to experience working on shared documents.

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar recording.





Webinar 3: A first hand guided tour of the BBC's and British Council's joint website http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
by Rob Lewis, TeachingEnglish website manager, Warszaw

• Date: Thursday 30th September 2010
• Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/bbcbritishcouncil.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/teachingenglish

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar recording.

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Urgent Appeal from VSO Ireland

VSO Ireland have launched an urgent appeal for Irish teachers "who are over 25 with at least three years' experience" to sign up to their overseas teacher training programme taking place in "44 countries around the globe (places like Guyana, Ghana, Nepal, China, Mongolia, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea to name a few!)."

Each teacher that VSO Ireland recruit will train 30 teachers who will go on to teach 30,000 students!

For more information please:
* visit VSO Ireland or
* call the VSO Ireland office on +353 (0) 1 814 7070 or
* text 'VSO' to 57500 (texts cost €2.50 including donation)

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Useful Multimedia Training Kit

ItrainOnline, promoting Internet training, provide a very useful Multimedia Training Kit, which could be used for introductory ICT modules, professional development modules or indeed for self paced learning.

The Kit includes full sets of trainers notes, handouts, presentations, exercises, worksheets, glossaries and evaluation forms. Most of the material is provided in text/graphics format, although there are some videos included.

If you wish you can update the modules, some last updated in 2003, as they are provided under Creative Commons licence.

Apart from the Multimedia Training Kit there are lots of other useful resources on this site, which are relevant and up to date. Well worth having a look around.

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Open Training with UNESCO

UNESCO's Open Training Platform is fantastic resource providing links to over 3,000 training resources within 293 categories.

The purpose of the platform is to "empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and value the “open” training materials, which are freely and openly accessible for trainers and self-learners to use and re-use for non commercial purposes such as teaching, learning and research".

Could be well worth your while checking out the resources on the Open Training Platform. 

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