The Blended CertICT

Certificate in Teaching Languages with Technology

In conjunction with The Consultants-E, validated by Trinity College

Fully validated by the Departament d'Educació of the Generalitat de Catalunya..

The 120-hour Blended CertICT: Certificate in Teaching Languages with Technology course is run partly face-to-face (50 hours) and partly online (70 hours).

Who is the Blended CertICT for?

The CertICT is a qualification for teachers and trainers of English and for teachers of other languages, who have already started their teaching careers and wish to further enhance their skills and expertise in using ICT (Information and Communications Technology) with their learners in the classroom.

The Blended CertICT is suitable for teachers and trainers worldwide, whatever their level of experience with ICT. Participants leave this course with a wealth of new ideas, tools, approaches and techniques to use ICT with their own face-to-face learners.

Course aims & objectives

The Blended CertICT aims to equip language teachers and trainers with the essential skills and knowledge to effectively use ICT in their own teaching or training contexts.

The aims and objectives of this qualification are as follows:

To develop and consolidate basic IT skills: word processing, manipulation of images, audio and video, email, file formats, online safety, security and virus protection.
To build a critical awareness of a range of commercially available ICT materials.
To consider ICT within the syllabus, and how to integrate ICT with regular classes.
To develop an awareness of the various contexts and cultural constraints in which ICT may be used by both teachers and learners.
To develop familiarity with search and evaluation skills for Internet-based resources.
To develop lesson planning and materials preparation skills for Internet-based resources.
To learn how to adapt and use current ICT tools with f2f learners, such as WebQuests, blogs, RSS feeds, chat (voice, video and text), podcasting, wikis, social bookmarking, online reference tools and electronic portfolios.
To develop an understanding of Web 2.0, VLEs, blended learning and m-learning, and how these could be used in the participant’s context.
To develop an understanding of the skills needed for working effectively with students and technology.
To consider how to integrate ICT and assessment (including online assessment).
To develop an awareness of how to continue the participant’s own professional development in ICT-related areas, and where and how to access this online.
To create, implement, and reflect on a final technology-based lesson plan or project.

Course structure & syllabus

The Blended CertICT consists of 3 modules, with total of 120 hours work for participants. The Blended CertICT is run part online and part face-to-face (f2f).

Of the total 120 course hours, 50 hours are offered f2f intensively over two weeks, and 70 hours are then offered online over 10 weeks.

We also offer an extensive version of the f2f component, which involves 10 face-to-face sessions over 10 or 11 weeks, followed by the online sessions.

Note that the online component of the course takes place after the f2f intensive component.

Modules

Module 01 Computer Skills

15 hours f2f
Email, file formats, word processing, working with images, audio & video, computer security, online safety issues.

Module 02 ICT Tools in the Classroom

35 hours f2f & 50 hours online = 85 hours
ICT usage and tools, Internet search techniques, evaluating websites, social bookmarking, planning and implementing Internet-based classes, WebQuests, voice, video & text chat, podcasting, blogs, RSS, wikis, online reference tools. Web 2.0, VLEs, blended learning, m-learning, electronic portfolios. Commercial ICT courseware, assessment, ICT in the syllabus, continual professional development online.

Module 03 Course Project

20 hours online
ICT Class Project: planning, implementation, review, reflection.

Click here to download a detailed course breakdown including timetabled video conferencing sessions, and the course breaks.

Course start dates

The face-to-face component of the Blended CertICT

Each day will consist of hands-on workshops and seminars from 9am to 3pm, with two 30 minute breaks. This makes a total of 5 hours work per day and a total of 50 hours, either intensively over 2 weeks (in July) or extensively over 10 or 11 weeks (October to December).

Participants will learn to use the ICT tools in the course description during the hands-on workshops, as well as consider the pedagogical implications of each tool. Internet access will be provided.

There are a maximum of 15 participants for the Blended CertICT.

The online component on the Blended CertICT

The online component of the course takes place in the learning environment Moodle. You are expected to spend about 7 hours per week on online individual, pair and collaborative group work, including offline reading and reflection.

Deadlines for task completion are weekly, and you can log on at any point during the week to work on the course. There are, however, no 'fixed' times to be online, apart from regular timetabled online video-conferencing sessions; the dates and times of these are negotiated to suit everyone on the course.

The online part of the course is structured around the weekly deadlines, so you are in constant contact with course colleagues and tutors in our course Moodle, for the duration of the course. Like the f2f part, the online part of the course is very highly tutor-supported: groups of 10+ participants have two online tutors.

You don't need to have any experience or knowledge of online learning or of Moodle before the course.

Find out more about how our online courses work in practice, and what they look like.

Assessment procedures

Participants need to complete a minimum of 80% of the course work for Module 1 and 2 to an acceptable standard within the time frame of the course. Module 3 (the course project) consists of creating, implementing and reflecting on an ICT lesson, or series of lessons, with learners; 100% of this needs to be completed.

An overall Pass or Fail grade is awarded for the CertICT. In order for participants to be awarded the Certificate, all 3 modules must be passed.

Participants who do not complete the minimum required course work within the stipulated course dates may still complete the course. However, they will not be awarded a Trinity College London CertICT Certificate, regardless of whether they have paid the Trinity external moderator fee.

In some cases, a referral and subsequent completion of work to the required standard, normally within one month of the course end date, will be accepted.

Download a detailed description of the CertICT assessment procedures and criteria in pdf format.

Price

Fees 2012: €1,125.

The course fee covers all course content and documentation, video conferencing sessions, full tutor support and ongoing feedback.

You will also need to pay the separate Trinity College London moderation fee of €120, before the course start date.

Part-time course 2012

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