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Blackrock Education Centre (BEC)

A resource centre for schools , who wish to teach Open source software to ECDL standards.The Centre have published a comprehensive set of training manuals for Open Office and Microsoft Office, both to ECDL standards.

Contact information:

Director : Dr Séamus Ó Canainn

The Centre was established in 1972 in Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Since 1996, BEC has been located in the grounds of the IADT Dún Laoghaire at Deansgrange - near Baker's Corner public house (Bar), a useful landmark for orientation purposes!

The present building was officially opened by the Minister for Education, Niamh Bhreathnach on February 27th 1997, almost 25 years to the day after it first came into being. Blackrock Education Centre was designed by Shay Cleary Architects. The design of the centre earned them a Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland award.

Built around a central courtyard, the Centre comprises a large entrance foyer, a conference room, a number of training rooms including an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training facility, meeting rooms and other facilities. A feature of the courtyard is a replica of a monastic sundial from early Christian times.

Local teachers and other local groups use the Centre for meetings, presentations and discussions.

Click here for a link to the sitehttp://www.blackrockec.ie

Summary:

Supporting the effective teaching of ICT is one of the key roles of BEC.The role of the ICT Advisor is to support schools and teachers in promoting the objectives of the Department of Education and Science's ICT in Schools programme within the implementation framework devised by National Centre for Technology in Education. This will include each of the principal initiatives: Technology Integration Initiative, Teaching Skills Initiative, Schools Integration Project, ScoilNet. The Advisor has a particular role in promoting the pedagogical objectives of the policy and its implementation initiatives. The Advisor works in collaboration with Education Centre Director and other providers and will service the ICT needs of the schools in the catchment area of the Education Centre.

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