Christmas in Portugal...

I also wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
All good things of this season. Portuguese eat a lot of food!!

Merry Christmas To You All

We wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Let´s exercise together

I propose this link because it´s really a common subject. All students can try to solve them, even those students with basic ICT knowledge.
Students can improve their English skill language as ICT.

See the main page...They have some nice ICT resources.

Very good website about Computer Network contents

A network is simply a group of two or more Personal Computers linked together. Many types of networks exist, but the most common types of networks are Local-Area Networks LANs), and Wide-Area Networks (WANs).

In a LAN, computers are connected together within a "local" area (for example, an office or home). In a WAN, computers are further apart and are connected via telephone/communication lines, radio waves or other means of connection.

Here in Greece, our students mostly do programming lessons. They
learn Html and Javascript with notepad and dreamweaver and we
let our students use a site www.w3schools.com where they can
be helped with the syntax of html javascript and there they take
online quizzes and do many excersises. Try it !






In multimedia they learn photoshop, in which i have many excersises
if anybody is interested
and Flash. Very useful link is :http://www.tutorialized.com in
which you can find a variety of excersises

What Greek Students use

One of our classes here in Greece is Internet Programming
and we teach Html and Javascript.
Our students write with notepad and Dreamweaver
and we let them use a site we have found very useful.
Try it www.w3schools.com. There you can find indexes,
online lessons and many quizzes











Also, we teach multimedia, where our students learn photoshop and flash. If anybody is interested we have specific photoshop excersises and in Flash we use a site with address
http://www.teacherclick.com/flash2004/index.htm

Computer network exercises

Some exercises related with computer network concepts and IP addresses.

Ischia 2008

Here goes a short video about the workshop in Ischia. In the first day the workshop!!
Some of you probably know some persons.

Some simple exercises

Simple computer network questions - link
Some binary conversion - link

Science Fiction films

My students are very interested in this kind of films, what about yours?

Internet Addiction

Let's share these lessons!

Forum

Computers: from the past to the present

Can you answer about... ?

the device used in China as a calculating machine
the first mechanical calculator
the scientist considered the "father of computing"
the machine used by H. Hollerith in 1890 to read the US census
the computer developed by Konrad Zuse in 1941
the digital computer built by engineers at IBM and H. Aiken in 1950
the device designed by Alan Turing to perform logical operations
the giant machine which had more than 2,000 vacuum tubes
the company that designed the first microprocessor in 1971
the creators of Microsoft
the first computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse
the main uses of the Web and where it was developed

Greetings from Greece

The students and the teachers of 2nd EPAL Evosmou, in Thessaloniki,Greece
have just joined you !! Greetings to every student and teacher in Europe.

We will be back soon !
Here is a video from us working in another project where we pretent we are bussinesmen!
Next time we will talk about puting titles and adding effects in out digital video clip.

Building the Digital Age

An interesting PDF document
BBC News

Computer History Museum

You can also visit their video collection on youtube.

4Bi - Today!

Podcast?

Timeline of Computing History

Computer History

Have a look!

Italian students at work!

Have a look at my 4Bi students working on our eTwinning project!

How to upload images in our Forum

Simple video

Hi! From Carole...

I am a teacher of English from France, in Verona working with Fiorenza. She is a wonderful teacher and great partner involved in various European projects and especially in our Leonardo project: "Mon devenir dans l'Europe" a 5 week experience (cultural and work) in Verona.

Today we will have a look around the town, the school and taste specialities!!!

Hope to take part in the project

Bye

Carole Dupont

Lycee La Chataigneraie

Normandy (near Rouen and not far from Paris)

CCNA 2 - Module 1

Portuguese students will start on next tuesday Module 1 of CCNA 2.

I must show to students how router configuration relates to the Internet, which is a global internetwork made possible by routers. Students will learn the difference between WANs and LANs, and will identify WAN connections, encapsulations, and protocols.

Goals:
Students who complete this module should be able to:
- Identify organizations responsible for WAN standards
- Explain the difference between WANs and LANs and the types of addresses they use
- Describe the role of a router in a WAN
- Identify internal components of a router and describe their functions
- Describe the physical characteristics of a router
- Connect Ethernet, serial WAN, and console ports

At the end of each module they shall do the Cisco Systems exam.

Strategies:
- Use powerpont presentations
- Read the Cisco Systems curriculum
- Use the simulator Packet Tracer
- Work with the Cisco bundle of routers and switches

Polish students' participation in the project.

Polish classes content is based on the coursebook Infotech
“English for computers users”

I am an English teacher who provides exta lessons for students who study ICT . They are based on the coursebook mentioned above. My students ,involved in the project, are from 3rd and 4th form ( the last year students just before final exams which will take part in May). The content of the classes:
3rd form(aged 18/19):
- Computer applications
- What is inside a PC system?
- Bying a computer (suitable products available on the market)
- Capture your favourite image (using different input devices)
- Viewing the output (monitors or VDU)
- Choosing a printer
3rd and 4th form
- I/O devices for the disabled
- Optical breakthrough (discs and drives)
- Operating systems
4th form (aged 19/20):
- Grafical user interface
- Word processing facilities
- Spreadsheets
- Databases
- Faces of the internet
- Computer graphics
- Multimedia magic
- Programming languages

My students have different professional classes depending on specialisation they chose at the beginning of the 3rd form. Some of them are more fluent in operating systems, some in multimedia , the others in graphics. I am sure that they will share their experience with students from other countries writing about the content of their curriculum.

Contents of 4th class, ITIS G. Marconi

CPU Peripherals I/O

Memory management

C language programming

OSs structure and history

Multi - Threading programming

LANs basic knowledge

OSI model

Our school LAN

Polish students of electronics also joined the project

One of my students' groups has decided to join the project. They are from 2nd form (aged 15-17)and they are taught to be technicians of electronics. That is why their curriculum differs fom the students' ones whose main profile is information technology. These groups have not only different subjects but also different acceses to the computers and the internet.
Students are eager to co-operate and participate in the project. I have decided to adjust their English curriculum to the projects requirements.

Contents of portugues students (8ºG)

These is what i will teach to class 8ºG. This class has students form 15 to 17 years old.
- Evolution of the communication
- Communication concept and terms associated
- Advantages of the network communication
- Network and telecommunications
- OSI Model
- Evolution of networking devices and the OSI layers
- Basic LAN Devices
- Transmission signals
- Physical topology and logical topology
- Communication protocols
- Internet evolution
- Internet

Blog tutorial

This little video demonstrate how to addjavascript:void(0) a message, edit and delete.

Bulgarian ICT education

I will tell you about bulgarian ICT education.
I teach Computer science to students 15, 16, 17 years old. Students that are 15 years old study Computer science for first way.
Contents for my students that are 15 years old:
1. Microsoft Word
2. Microsoft Excel
3. Computer devices
4. Internet
5. Paint
6. Operation sistems: MS DOS, Microsoft Windows

Contents for my students that are 16 years old:
1. Microsoft Access
2. Microsoft Power Point
3. Internet, Computer networks
4. Program language - QBasic

Contents for my students that are 17 years old:
1. Microsoft Word
2. Microsoft Excel
3. HTML, CSS

I have to mention that our school is humanitarian school. Our students sudy more literature, history, philosophy. In the other school the students study Computer science for another programs.

Contents of portugues students (12ºF)

Contents for my students that are finishing school:
1. WANs & Routers
2. Introduction to Routers
3. Configuring a Router
4. Learning about Other Devices
5. Managing Cisco IOS Software
6. Routing & Routing Protocols
7. Distance Vector Routing Protocols
8. TCP/IP Error & Control Messages
9. Basic Router Troubleshooting
10. Intermediate TCP/IP
11.Access Control Lists

Blog tutorial

Link for 2 blog tutorials about how to add new message and edit it.

Planning my English/ICT lessons...

This school year I'll teach my ICT students:

to talk and write about computer applications in everyday life

to understand the basic structure of a computer system

to classify computer devices

to use basic IT vocabulary

to understand the structure and functions of the CPU

to distinguish between RAM and ROM

to understand how memory is measured

to understand the technical specs of different computers

to select the most suitable computers for particular people

to be able to describe input devices

to understand how a computer display works

to recommend the most suitable display for particular people

to understand what sort of input/output devices disabled people can use

to discriminate between different types of magnetic drive and disk

to give instructions and advice on how to protect data

to be able to describe flash-based devices

to discuss the personal qualities and professional skills needed for a job in ICT

to write a CV in English and a letter applying for a job

to understand the function of the operating system

to recognize the features of a graphical user interface, or GUI

to understand the basic features and applications of word processors

Let's study together!

My eTwinning students

My 4Bi students will work on this eTwinning project.

My students' names are:

Thomas, Danny, Igor, Jacopo, Massimo, Simone, Andrea F., Mattia, Andrea F., Marco, Andrea P., Nicholas, Giuseppe, Federico, Zeno, Mattia, Michael.

We'll take a picture next week...

New school year

In Portugal, most students will start school the 15 of September.
I already know my school schedule:
- I will teach Computer Network to students with 17-19 year old. They are concluding the Secondary level
- I will have a class with students from a special Course, these students don´t want to continue studies. They are about 15-16 year old, next year they will be finishing their studies. They will be Informatics’ Operator. They learn the basic of informatics, such as:
- Installing and configuring computers;
- Use word processor, spreadsheets, graphical presentations, administrative software;
- Configuring computer to work in a network;
- Change some hardware;
I will be the coordinator of this class.

Let´s have a nice school year.

Join our ICT forum!

ICT in Portugal

In Portugal students all have ICT in the 8º (14 years) and 9º (15 years).
Link to the resume of what we have at my school.

Our eTwinning project

Integrating ICT into the Curriculum: teaching and learning Computer Science and L2