Below is a list of staff cover, workshops and trainee rep activities for today and the rest of the month. You can click on any event to get more detail about it.
A larger copy of this calendar can be found here
Don’t forget to scroll down for the latest news and updates!
Heddiw yw diwrnod ‘Pethau Bychain‘ – diwrnod i ddathlu’r iaith Gymraeg arlein ac i annog mwy o bobol i defnyddio Cymraeg ar y we.
Mae ITeC yn awyddus i gefnogi yr iaith Gymraeg a dw i’n dysgu yr iaith (yn araf!). Mae’n ddiddorol iawn i fi i fod yn dysgwr yn lle athrawes am unwaith!
Dollennau diddorol…
Say Something in Welsh – Os dych chi’n moyn dysgu yr iaith neu wella’ch sgiliau… Cwrs da iawn. Dim ond siarad a gwrando – dim darllen a ysgrifennu.
Cwrs Cyfrifiadur – Cwrs arlein yn Gymraeg (o Microsoft)
“Pethau Bychain” (Small Things) is a day to celebrate the Welsh language online and to encourage more people to use the language on the web.
ITeC is keen to support the use of Welsh and I’m learning the language (slowly!). It’s very interesting to be a learner instead of a tutor for once!
Interesting links
Say Something in Welsh – If you want to learn or improve your language skills this is a very good course. Just speakingand listening – no reading and writing.
IT Course – Online IT course (from Microsoft) in Welsh
And here are more on Delicious
As from today the Jul group will join the Jun group in the blue room. Using a different computer to the one you’ve got used to can sometimes involve a bit of fiddling to start with, but is perfectly normal and common practice in the workplace so worth getting used to. Below are some of the common issues and solutions.
Firefox Homepage (Or “where’s the blog”)
This blog should normally be the first page you see when opening Firefox. If it isn’t then the steps below should solve the problem.
“Word keeps trying to install”
The first time you open Word (or another Office application) on a different PC to normal you will see an installation message. After a few moments it will ask you to confirm you user name. This is normal. Just click OK when asked for your user name.
American Keyboard (Or “My @ key doesn’t work”)
Some of the training PCs have been incorrectly set to use an American keyboard layout. unfortunately this needs to be changed for each user. If you are getting a quote mark (“) instead of your @ symbol, you have this problem. To solve it…
You may have to close and reopen any windows you are working in to get the change to work correctly.
Missing Printers
This is fairly common problem but an easy one to resolve and something which is useful to know how to do in any case. If you can’t see the printer you need:
Missing Network Drives (Or “I can’t find my user space”)
This is a more unusual error, but a quick one to solve. If trainee on ‘atlas’ does not appear in My Computer then:
Well done to all the following learners on completing qualifications recently:
Also a special well done to those learners who’ve worked so hard to raise their Basic Skill level and achieve Level 1 in the Numeracy assessment:
Just a reminder — Swansea ITeC will be shut on Monday (30th August) for the bank holiday.
Why do we bang on about blogs? Facebook? Twitter?
This is why…
This week’s basic skills workshop (25th Aug 11-12:30) will be a revision session for those leaving this month.
We will go over the questions which people got wrong in the inital assessment in preparation for resitting the papers on Thursday in the normal exam slot.
If you did not achieve Level 1in your incoming initial assessment it would be a good idea to come along even if yhou haven’t been attending the maths sessions so far as you will need to resit them anyway.
Learners who are staying on past this month are also welcome to attend.
All of the May/June group blog work has now been proofread. Your marked-up drafts are saved in your Mahara ePortfolios. You should check these and your assessment plans and check what you have still to do to get the work ready for logging in.
A few notes:
Hi
For those learners leaving us at the end of August, I would like to take this opportunity of wishing you all the best and good luck for the future.
Hello the to our new trainees who have started today.
This is just a message from everyone at the ITeC center to say hello to all our new starters. Here is a video that can help every body not just our starters.
Please if you get to this point then please take a 5 minute break.
Thank you for your time.
Mark Williams
Trainee Rep
Hello there everyone.
Yesterday we said good bye to a friend to us all in Diane and we will all miss her very much. This is a thank you message from Diane.
” Thank you to everyone for my leaving card – it really means a lot to me.
Good Luck with your exams and everything you plan to do in the future.
Diane x”
Diane is still here today if you would like to say good bye to her personally.
Thank you for your time.
Mark Williams
Trainee Rep
