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Our course on New Media & Web 2.0 Applications started today – we’re very happy to welcome 15 people from 5 different European countries!

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The European Commission offers grants for courses listed in their Comenius/Grundtvig course database, covering course fee, travel & subsistence. With the application deadline of 14 January approaching rapidly, we would like to draw your attention to some courses the non-profit organization Let’s Learn IT has to offer.

Course overview

1. Moodle at School: Installing & Deploying a Course Management System for Language Teachers (BE-2010-128-003)
   This one week course, which takes place in Athens, Greece, from 10 – 17 July 2011, will give you everything you need to know in order to not only install but also configure and manage your own Moodle Course Management System. Additionally, you will also learn how to effectively implement all of its features in your daily teaching practice.
2. Tools for teachers: New Media & Web 2.0 Applications (BE-2010-130-003)
   This one week course, which takes place in Ghent, Belgium, from 24 July – 31 July 2011, will give you an overview of many New Media applications (such as Blogs, Wikis, social networks, etc), and show you how you can effectively implement all of their features in your daily teaching practice. Having completed this course, you will be able to create improved learning materials that will appeal to young & IT-savvy students.
3. Training for the Future – Improving Education with Blogs & Wikis (BE-2010-131-003)
   This course takes place in Ghent, Belgium, from 21 – 28 August 2011. As blogs and wikis abound on the web, it is essential teachers as well as students learn how to work with them, and how they can implement them in their daily teaching practice. Creating a blog or wiki can easily happen in a matter of minutes it does take more than that to turn your blog or wiki into a successful learning experience.

If you think these courses might interest any of your colleagues, then please share this information with them. For more specific information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Preregistration & information

People who are interested should preregister for our courses as soon as possible via our Preregistration Form. Full details regarding the courses are also available via the overview of our international courses.

Application Deadline

The application deadline for Comenius – Grundtvig courses comes very early this year (14 January 2011). It is therefore very important that you submit your application for funding before 13 January 2011. For country-specific deadlines, please inquire with your own National Agency.

From February 7–13, 2010 in Ghent (Belgium) vzw Let’s Learn IT organizes the workshop:

Web 2.0, Multimedia & Presentation Skills: Empowering IT Competences For Today’s Job Market (Workshop Reference number: 2009-1-BE3-GRU13-01100)

The main objective behind this workshop is to give the participants a decent training on how they can use computers to enhance their chances for finding a job. The focus will be on various web 2.0 applications, presentation tools, and digital audio and video.

Objectives

Participants will have learnt the following:

• how to use computers and computer peripherals to create multimedia presentations;
• how to use modern web 2.0 applications like wikis, blogs and social community websites;
• how to work with digital audio and video;
• how to give an efficient presentation.

Interested?

Thanks to the Grundtvig programme of the European Commission and the Flemish National Agency, vzw Let’s Learn IT can offer this workshop completely free of charge (flight ticket, hotel, breakfast lunch & dinner will be paid by us) to 20 unemployed candidates. If you are interested in attending this workshop, you can send us a letter (or email) of motivation in which you tell us why you would like to attend this workshop. You will need to prove that at the moment of applying you are officially unemployed.

• Where? Ghent, Belgium
• When? February 7-13, 2010
• Who? Unemployed European citizens
• Costs? All costs related to the programme will be paid for by the organization

For more information, please visit Let’s Learn IT.