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The James Kane Foundation has provided funding for all 120 students in the 27 EOTAS Centres in Northern Ireland to be certified with the Go Berserk certificate. This allows them to complete 2 modules of the OCNNI IT Applications Level 2 qualification. The foundation commented
At the heart of Go Berserk is a strong desire to help children, young people and teachers to gain the much needed and greatly desired digital skills, especially relating to web development and learning to code.
The 2023 TechKnow Club Challenge final was held at Strathearn School today. Finalists came from primary and secondary schools across Northern Ireland, including Elmgrove Primary and Ballymagee Primary. The students were asked to recreate and pitch a professional three page website promoting UNESCO's Health and Wellbeing goals. Well done to all the finalists! Thanks to Allstate and W5 for their support.
Lough Road EOTAS Centre has won the Capita ICT Excellence Awards for 2023. Lough Road has been using Go Berserk resources to teach students how to build websites. The report of the judges can be seen here. The judges commented:
Go Berserk (HTML coding) has been introduced to Lough Road and being ratified into the Open College Network (NI) so it will be adopted nationwide as a Level 2 qualification next year...
In conclusion, judges felt it was clear EOTAS Service has come a very long way in a very short
time in respect of the use of digital technologies. What it has done in the past couple of years is the epitome of embedding the use of digital technology in collaboration and professional learning....
This collective entry scored remarkably highly on all judges’ scorecards and for this reason was deemed, unanimously, to be meritorious of being declared a winner in its own category.
Students at Lough Road EOTAS Centre in Lurgan were awarded certificates for completing the Go Berserk book 1. The certificates were presented by Stranmillis University College Principal. Professor Jonathan Heggarty, St Mary's University College Principal, Professor Peter Finn, and CORE Systems CEO, Patricia O'Hagan.
Peter Finn commented:
Earlier in the year I observed at first hand how effective the Go Berserk resources are in teaching HTML web design and coding when Ian Simons took a course for students at St Mary's
The 2022 TechKnow Club Challenge final was held at Strathearn School today. Finalists came from primary and secondary schools across Northern Ireland, including Enniskillen Royal. The students were asked to recreate and pitch a professional three page website promoting Climate Action. Everyone received a Go Berserk certificate accredited by Stranmillis and St Mary's University Colleges. Well done to all the finalists! Thanks to Allstate and W5 for their support.
We have launched our first online book!
The live1.go-berserk.com app teaches you how to make a website in HTML5.
Go to live1.go-berserk.com to access the app.
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all the features and content of the Go Berserk making websites with HTML paperback book, but with:
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Ian Simons was the keynote speaker for the ITS conference in Volda Norway. Afterwards, he introduced a group of primary and secondary school children to Go Berserk. All of them did go berserk, including their teachers who really loved the Norwegian translation of the HTML4 book.
The 2019 TechKnow Club Challenge final was held at Strathearn School today. Finalists came from primary and secondary schools across Northern Ireland, including Cregagh Primary School and Lurgan Junior High. Well done to all the finalists! Thanks to Allstate and W5 for their support.
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