COME AND JOIN US! Conference Come and share your experiences. ICT Bridges offers you the chance to share your story, your ideas and experiences, to tell us about your background and what technologies have helped you to overcome difficulties in learning. An integral part of ICT Bridges is the online forum, where you will be able to exchange ideas with others with a similar disability in your own country or throughout Europe.
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ICT Bridges Information and Communication Technologies as a Force for Change. 10 - 12 November 2009 Hotel Prosper, Celadn , Beskydy Mountains
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Come and create your story Whether you are a learner or an educator, we want to hear your story. Tell us how the use of ICT helped you overcome you own personal difficulties, how you achieved things that otherwise might not have been possible.
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Or if you are a trainer, tell us how ICT helped you to improve the quality of your teaching, especially with regard to the handicapped.
Come and present your story The ITC Bridges Conference will be held in the Hotel Prosper in Celadn , Beskydy Mountains, in the Czech Republic from the 10th to 12th of November, 2009. Come and join us. Participate in the Conference and present your story. The ICT Bridges Conference will be linked to the Third Annual SUNFLOWER Conference 2009.
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WHAT IS THE ICT BRIDGES PROJECT? People with disabilities encounter barriers of many kinds in their lives. They also encounter barriers to learning which determine how they can further their vocational training, their areas of study in higher education, as well as their life long learning. The use of Information and Communication Technologies increasingly enables people with disabilities to follow an individualized training pathway, and helps to remove barriers to learning. This empowerment maximises inclusion in society and access to employment. This project aims to raise awareness among trainers and teachers of the important contribution that can be made by ICT and also to create bridges between people with disabilities, in order for them to exchange their experiences. Objectives: To use information and communication technologies as instruments to overcome the different physical, social, geographical or other barriers encountered by people with disabilities in the field of vocational training. To promote the effective acquisition of skills and knowledge and improve the quality of the vocational training system for people with disabilities by influencing the approach of trainers and educators through peer to peer experience sharing. To foster the use of ICT to integrate the disabled into the educational process and the work market, by sharing experiences and achievements in best practice. This sharing by both disadvantaged learners and educators can impact the contribution of innovative approaches in the creation of a more attractive environment in vocational training.
TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERS Products and Outcomes Handbook ICT Bridges for educators and learners, both on-line and on CD. Exchange visits (mobilities) of trainers and learners with a view to fostering cooperation among institutions and partners. To share outputs with educators and learners. Increased awareness of the effectiveness of ICT in overcoming barriers for both the disabled and management of organizations involved in the learning process. To promote communication in English through trainee and educator participation in peer-learning activities conducted in English. The use of ICT for education by specific groups is the core of the project. The project team will create a handbook with a collection of single case studies on how ICT can eliminate barriers for the handicapped. Articles devoted to concrete services offered by educators for the handicapped will be the part of handbook. The content will be accessible on Internet.
Project Coordinator: Innovation of Education Institute VSB - Technick Univerzita Ostrava Czech Republic http://www.vsb.cz The VSB Education Institute’s Sunflower Centre provides services for disadvantaged students which enable them to achieve a University degree using ICT tools. Partners: Camera de Comert si Industrie Bistrita-Nasaud Romania www.cciabn.ro The Training Centre of the CCIA BN focuses on vocational training. It provides training for different kinds of beneficaries, including vulnerable groups, using ICT tools. Lawton School S.L. Spain www.lawtonschool.com Lawton School has developed on line vocational language courses for the blind and visually impaired. It is involved in developing vocational training through language competences using ICT tools. Berufsf rderungsinstitut Steiermark Austria www.bfi-stmk.at Bfi Steiermark has carried a lot of projects for disabled people, mainly with the blind and visually impaired and the deaf. BfI employs experts in the field of barrier free web design, programming and teaching ICT for the disabled.