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Launching of ECDL Website at Margaret Mortimer Girls' Junior Lyceum, Santa Lucia by the Hon. Minister of Education, Dr Louis Galea on 15th June, 2004 |
Recognising the importance of continued learning, the Ministry of Education through the Department of Technology in Education is offering a 25-hour ECDL Conversion Course for those Form 5 students wishing to undertake the ECDL exams.
Many state and non-state school students have this year been offered the opportunity to enroll for the five-week programme, which is primarily aimed to cover those units within the ECDL syllabus that were not previously covered during the secondary school years due to the recent introduction of this new ICT concept.
Ten schools have been chosen to act as ECDL training Centres, which are catering for over 2,100 students. This is a 31% interest increase since last year, thus iterating the ever-growing increase in popularity of this new ICT benchmark.
These ten centres are supporting students by offering their premises after normal school-opening hours in order not to disrupt the schools’ time-table.
During this course students will receive tuition and carry out mock assessments in preparation for their final examination which will lead them to the full ECDL certification.
In order to facilitate the students’ learning experience, the Department of Technology in Education designed a new web-site to cater for both the students’ and well as the teachers’ needs.
In this web-site, one can find all the related material for teaching and learning as well as administrative information that is useful both for students as well as for teachers.
This web-site which can be found on http://schoolnet.gov.mt/ictcecdl was designed by Mr Joseph Micallef, a support teacher within the Department of Technology in Education.
Dr Louis Galea, Minister of Education, Youths and Work launched the site at Margaret Mortimer Junior Lyceum, Sta. Lucia when he was paying a visit during the ECDL Conversion Course.
Mr Lawrence Zammit, Director of Technolgoy, Mr Charles Galea, Education Officer – Secondary Sector, Ms Joan Micallef, Head of School and Ms Marcelle Galea, ECDL CO-ordinator were also present.
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