Primary Teacher Courses

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Below is a list of ICT courses we can offer your school at a location / time that suits your school's needs. Tailor-made courses can be designed to cover the ICT skills and topics your school requires. Contact us to discuss your training needs.

	WHOLE-STAFF TRAINING DAYS Course Duration: 1 x Day / 2 x Twilights Software Used: Various / TBC The Creative Learning Centres would strongly recommend that schools consider taking part on a whole staff training day, where creative learning centre staff can visit the school and provide teaching staff with tailored training, advice and the benefits of their expertise onsite, within the school environment. This type of whole school training and development opportunity is a highly effective introduction to the potential creative use of ICT across a school’s curricular and ex-curricular programme. The course offers support and advice in relation to resources, best practice, management and planning across the curriculum. This is a popular area of the centres’ professional development programme and is in high demand. Day courses must be booked well in advance, on a first come first served basis and by a process of application only. Please contact centres directly for application details.
	HOW TO USE YOUR COMPUTER CREATIVELY Course Duration: 1 x Day / 2 x Twilights Software Used: iLife (Mac), Audacity, Photo Story 3 & Windows Movie Maker (PC) Teachers who are curious about how their classroom computer can be used in more creative ways are the primary target for this course. The purpose of the day is to begin to show teachers what is possible when using their computer platform, whether PC or Macbased, and to give them some of the basic skills and confidence they will need to help them explore the software environment within their own classroom. Course activities will include the creation of slideshows, digital stories and comic strips.
	HOW TO USE YOUR STILLS CAMERA CREATIVELY Course Duration: 2 x Days / 4 x Twilights Software Used: PowerPoint (PC/Mac) & Comic Life (Mac), Photo Story 3 (PC) This introductory course will enable teachers to explore the use of the digital stills camera as a tool to help their pupils view, understand and create still and moving images in the classroom. The course will help teachers to identify innovative ways of using the camera as a tool for gathering, creating and sharing stories in the classroom. The course will also take teachers through the basic stages of moving image production using still images, including a guide on how to storyboard and compose photos effectively. Some advice will also be offered on features which teachers should look out for when choosing a camera for their own classroom.
	HOW TO USE SOUND CREATIVELY IN THE CLASSROOM Course Duration: 1 x Day / 2 x Twilights Software Used: Audacity (freeware for PC/Mac) & Windows Movie Maker (PC), GarageBand & iMovie (Mac) This course will explore the creative use of sound in the classroom, introducing teachers to sound recording and sound manipulation. Sound will be explored as a tool for learning across the curriculum and the course will pay particular attention to the linking of sound with words. Using a text or a poem, teachers will learn how to make and record sound effects, to record a narration, to source, download and add online sound effects and to export the final narration to CD.
	STARTING STOP-MOTION ANIMATION Course Duration: 2 x Days / 4 x Twilights Software Used: iStopMotion (Mac) (PC software will also be referred to) This hands-on introductory course will introduce teachers to some of the ways of using stop-motion animation as a creative tool for teaching and learning in the classroom. Teachers will be introduced to the simple step-by-step stages of the stop-motion animation process and will also look at the use of sound and voice-over. Some examples of good primary teaching practice in this area will also be discussed and teachers will then be given the time to explore and share possible ways in which they might begin to use animation in their own classes.
	STARTING DIGITAL STORYTELLING Course Duration: 2 x Days / 4 x Twilights Software Used: iMovie (Mac), Windows Movie Maker (PC) This introductory course will enable teachers to explore the use of a digital stills camera as a tool to help their pupils view, understand & create moving image productions in the classroom. In particular, it will focus on ways in which digital technology can be used to gather, create and share stories and will consider different approaches to managing and organising this work in the classroom, with some examples of best practice in this area. The course will take teachers through all the basic stages of moving image production using still images, including a guide on how to storyboard and compose photos effectively. Using basic editing software, teachers will be given the opportunity to edit their images together into a finished piece with sound, titles and credits and these will be screened and evaluated at the end of the course.