Training sessions were really a combination of peer support and information
sharing, and new skills acquisition. The teachers usually talked for the first
half of each session about what they had been doing, problems and ideas, and
sharing ovservations about what was happening.
These were mostly held in a coffee
shop away from the distractions of the workplace and the computer lab. They were
a good time for developing a sense of mutual support within the group, and
were the place where a lot of concerns and issues were discussed, and sometimes resolved.
The hands-on part of the training mostly took place at Carlton Contact in the
small computer lab. This was the teaching space for two of the teachers too, so
it provided a good opportunity for some real trouble-shooting and test-driving of
ideas to be tried in the classroom.
Examples of training activities
- Introduction to the WWW
- Search engines and directories
- Basic searches
- Finding good language activities on the web
- Getting a web based email account (Yahoo mail, Hotmail)
- Reading and sending emails
- MOOing - real time 'chat' with other students and teachers
- Introduction to web page making
- Uploading web pages
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