INOTE IT survey (training needs)

The fourth post today from our survey of English teachers in Ireland. This one quotes responses to the question What areas of technology would you like training in?

• Interactive whiteboard (useful when I actually get one!)
• How to incorporate simple IT into my teaching of English.
• Just recently appointed Principal - ITC has been designated one of our priorities so any practical help on making ITC accessible and easily used in English classes would help. ITC needs to be part of daily teaching plans not the novelty item!
• Would like more on Google Docs and Apps
• Using i-pads, lists of useful web-sites, Moodle.
• Computers!
• I would really, really like to upskill in this area. I believe technology will be more important in the classroom going forward and I'm not that skilled. Looking forward to the presentation in Kilkenny.
• Presentations, animations, useful websites for english
• All and any!
• Not sure, but keen to hear about others.
• Anything that's going.
• Use of visualiser & other such equipment.
• Everything. I am a technophobe!
• I find that practice and experimentation are the best way to hone my technology skills, as, at 56, I don't feel that I'm as 'receptive' to learning all of these new skills as readily as some of my younger colleagues!  We had some very useful in-service in May as part of our Croke Park hours. What I need to do is to work on what we learned there, to master and perfect those skills.  Colleagues in my school are wonderful in terms of helping and teaching each other, as we slowly adapt our teaching methodologies to the new era.  Such 'gradual' learning suits me!  Interestingly, I asked my 6th year Higher Level students today if they would like me to use the Data Projector/Powerpoint presentation, in conjunction with my handout for teaching 'Literary Genre'  and they said no.  They preferred me to use the whiteboard + marker with the handouts, teaching in my traditional way!!!!
• Using laptop and screen to present and to engage pupils in texts and debate, etc. 
• Moodle, Visualisers, Educational apps.
• Any training would be great apart from the very basics! 
• Interactive whiteboards (many times).
• Using technology in a more interactive way for students.
• Day to day stuff - to make English more interactive - update skills
• Audacity - interactive whiteboards - recording/filming students doing recitals/presentations
• Use of interactive whiteboard (and to have one!!)
• Basics
• Downloading YouTube clips
• Loading notes/lessons onto the Internet 
• Interactive whiteboard & useful websites for english
• I don't tend to use technology in my English class other than showing a DVD on the projector screen, so I'd be interested in any ideas about how to use it.  Ideas need to be easy to prepare and to implement as I'm not an expert in using technology. One of the main reasons I don't use technology often is that I'm not confident I'll be able to fix a problem if something goes wrong, so some trouble-shooting ideas would also be good.
• Using laptop and data projector as an interactive resource in class instead of writing on white bard
• Using more technology in the English classroom in general
• How to safely and accurately download material from the net. 
• Information on available software & how to help students  make and upload their own videos
• Interactive white board (just very unsure about it)
• Troubleshooting when problems occur and I end up completely stuck. That's when I end up resorting to chalk and talk - sad but true. 
• Using interactive resources such as Moodle
• All areas
• Blogging with Blogger and/or Wordpress - Ways to self-publish one's own notes - Moodle
• Probably all of them - particularly the areas I have not even heard of!!
• Whatever areas will enhance the teaching/learning experience of English in my classrooms
• Using social media - could I use Twitter - How do I set up a blog?
• Powerpoint and YouTube
• Google apps and the various brilliant but confusing apps I see on SCC English!
• All of it!
• Scanning machine you can scan a picture into and then present to class via pc tv screen.
• Further expansion on IT in classroom - Collaborative projects for inter-school work
• Google docs / Google apps / Prezi
• (click Read More below for further responses)
• All areas appropriate for teaching
• I would like further training on using the interactive whiteboard to its full potential.
• Twitter / I'm very aware that I don't use my technology (data projector) to its fullest and would love to learn any useful techniques
• Interactive white boards - nifty ways to use ICT & the net - to hear what other teachers are doing
• I would like to be guided towards the better sites for English. To become more at home with using online resources. To be made aware of the various possibilities for using technology smoothly in the classroom.
• Websites with useful material / Classroom where only one computer available / Using computer to engage students
• Full and effective use of the whiteboard; Read and Write Gold training - we have it for our SEN students but people are unsure about using it properly (inc me!). Mindmapping software for planning.
• I'm just interested in some new ideas for using technology in my English class. 
• ECDL / animation / web design / interactive media devices- ipads/ tabs, etc..... interactive white board- difficult to find adequate training in this area- I have a feeling that it is capable of doing a lot more than the basic student interactive activities that I have  been shown.
• How to easily create Powerpoints
• Use of interactive whiteboard and data projectors
• Interactive whiteboard, although I don't know if the school finances will stretch to buying one!
• I would like to know how to cut a DVD into sections so that I could easily divide up the key moments of the comparative film and watch them without having to find them in the DVD each time.
• To perfect Office, using e-mail, mail merge.
• Google apps
• All areas as I'm looking to up-skill myself.
• More training on how to use the interactive white board more effectively. How to make senior English interesting! Need a lot more resources that are particular to Irish context.
• Powerpoint presentation / how to access sites / how to down load stuff from YouTube.
• Anything would be welcome.
• Making better Powerpoints
• Websites useful for the study of all disciplines from poetry to Shakespeare to personal writing.
• Interactive whiteboard / Mac technology / creating cartoons 
• Smartboard; specifically as it relates to English teaching.
• Making short films e.g. poem to film etc.. 
• Downloading film/poetry/story extracts from web-sites or YouTube.
• Blogging