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!
The ITeC will be closed to learners on Tuesday 21 May 2013.
There will be no training on this day.
Please see below for details of current vacancy with Chwarae Teg:
Regional Project Co-ordinator – Llanelli
Full time – 35 hours per week – part time applications also welcome
£20,465 per annum, pro rata, plus generous benefits package
Fixed term contract until March 2014
For more details please visit chwaraeteg/careers
If your only memory of π is a vague memory from school that it’s “something to do with circles” then you might be surprised to discover that it’s “Pi Day” today – and more so to discover that the use of the Greek letter π to represent the number was first used by a farmer’s son from Anglesey!
Anyone still stuck for an ESW project could do worse than look at local history for inspiration!
Next week is Essential Skills Boot Camp week!
Don’t be afraid of the name, we do not expect you to scale camouflaged nets or be yelled at by a Sergeant Major!!
The week will be FUN and you will get lots of tutor support to guide you through the PLAN > DO > REVIEW cycle.
Some of you may be wondering what exactly we are going to expect from you as your first project – so why not have a look at what previous groups created.
http://ourlearning.wordpress.com/category/key-skills/
The previous groups created their projects as PowerPoint presentations, leaflets or reports. As you can see from their own comments on the Learning Reflections blog, many were feeling just as you might do now, but were really pleased when they had successfully completed their projects.
“It was daunting at first, but once I got into it, there was no stopping me! After my first month of training, its great to see how far I have come.” – David Morgan
There is no need to start the project yet, to be honest it is better if you just attend all the workshops and get the support you need from the tutors to guide you through the planning process!
But there is nothing to stop you thinking of a topic you would like to research and complete your project on.
It can be on ANYTHING IN THE WORLD and should be on something that you are at least interested in – otherwise you will have a boring week!
Examples:
Anything goes!
We’d be particularly keen to see projects that have a real world purpose above and beyond ‘passing the course at ITeC’.
One possible charity activity we’ve linked in with in the past is the LAA Youth and Education Support organisation which encourages young people to take up science, technology, engineering and maths careers (including IT!), using the medium of aviation as a ‘hook’ in. Some of our younger learners recently organised an event with them at the Waterfront Museum! They’re preparing for a conference next month and have a lot of brochures, agendas, info packs etc to produce as well as articles for their newsletter.
Another option for a real world project is web content for Oystermouth Castle. They’re looking to adapt some print articles for the web, add this season’s events information and get more local content up to push up the search rankings.
If either of the above appeal and you’re interested in making your project more ‘real’ then see me (Leia) this week before starting your project plan.
Bloodhound SSC: The 1000mph Supersonic Car
14th March, 2013
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
Join us on a unique engineering adventure to find out about the history behind the ultimate, unlimited racing car, BLOODHOUND SSC. Designed to go at 1,000mph the story of the jet and rocket powered car and the computational modelling technology behind it will unfold in a captivating lecture by Swansea University’s College of Engineering. This event is supported by ITWales and the BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT.
Exciting stuff! This is a free event down at the Waterfront Museum. Full details and booking here on EventBrite.
If you are interested in college courses Gower College are holding two Open Evenings as detailed below:
Thursday 7th March, 2013 5.30pm – 7.30pm Tycoch Campus
Monday 11th March, 2013 5.30pm – 7.30pm Gorseinon Campus
If you need any further information please see Diane
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Skills Academy Wales are hosting an Apprenticeship Fair:
Wednesday 13th March, 2013 12pm – 8pm Llandarcy Academy of Sport
If anyone is interested in attending please confirm with Tracey (Reception or 01792 464561)
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Many of you know that this blog has been under attack from a sneaky hack called ‘Pharma Hack’. The original attack happened over the Christmas/New Year period and affected our main website [see original clean up operation]
Well, it has been visiting us again, this time on our WordPress blog. Links were embedded in about a dozen posts, advertising ‘those little blue pills for men’ 
Now the links have been removed and the blog is back up, but I know that the problem has not been eradicated.
Swansea ITeC is closed for staff training tomorrow: Monday 21 January. Business as usual on Tuesday. Please pass the message on to your fellow students.
