From: David Neary (nearyd at domain khumbu.eeng.dcu.ie)
Date: Mon 07 Feb 2000 - 09:13:21 GMT
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, John P. Looney wrote:
> In the school we did it in, it was pretty poor. Granted that that was
> about lumme...1992 or so, but we covered:
>
> COMAL (COBOL/BASIC hybrid - absolutely useless)
> Text based spreadsheet (close to useless)
> Art Packages (I can't say how close to useless this was)
At least it was better than BASIC on 8-year-old Apple IIe's :)
> Could you recommend a way that ILUG people could actually get into
> teaching in schools, in their spare time ? It would be excellent if there
> was someone like the "teacher with a clue" in every school - it was an
> hour or two a week, after school, learning cool stuff like pointers in C
> and how hard drives worked. It's not something for everyone, but once you
> get an idea of what you can do with computers at a young age...and I'm
> sure there has to be one teacher in every school in the country that would
> like an ILUG member to call out for an hour or three a week teaching them
> stuff too.
The DITs are always looking for part-time staff (4-8 hours a week, about
IR25.00 per hour). Kevin St. was particularly good (they have a computers
degree and a 3 yr cert). Their course is fairly basic for the first couple
of years, PASCAL in 1st year, C in second year, hard C and Java in 3rd
year, network programming in Java/C in 4th year. Someone with a solid CA
background would probably get to supervise a few projects, which is where
the really interesting stuff happens.
Aside from that, you could write away to schools offering your services
(you'd actually be a substitute teacher in name, since most of us wouldn't
have H.Dip.Eds under our belt, but it'd be VEC rates). Other than that,
the only way into something like that is through an acquaintance, I
think...
BTW, when's teh next meeting? I missed the last one, and in fact I've been
too shy to come to any of the ILUG events yet (I had planned to go to the
last meeting, but something came up), and these seem like a good in. Is it
next Saturday? What are the topics?
> Kate
Cheers,
Dave Neary.
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