ICT

Teaching staff

(Head of Department) Mrs J Booth

ICT Network Administrator Mr W McCreedy

Within the ICT department the following courses are offered:

Mrs Booth joined the department in 2003 to introduce the AVCE course to the new sixth form. This has been very successful and there are currently 26 students studying the new A Level - Applied ICT. She also has introduced the CLAIT course to the current year 13.

Mr McCreedy started as ICT technician in the college in 1999 and has been a valuable asset to the department. At this stage the two computer suites were in W7 and E1. He was based in the store between W7 and E6 and had to carry out all repairs in this rather small room. Thankfully, as the department has expanded, he is now based in E2 in more comfortable surroundings.

Over the years, the department has grown considerably in the sense that, in addition to offering our students the above courses, they can participate in our main extracurricular venture – namely, Computer Club.

Jillian Booth (Head of ICT)

Integrated College Dungannon goes wireless

As part of the college’s operational plan to increase ICT experiences of the students and due to the increased use of ICT across all areas of the curriculum, the existing two computer suites in the college were struggling to cope with the access needed by all students. To overcome this, a suite of twenty laptops were purchased so that an additional ICT suite could instead be transported to the classroom.

This means that staff can book the laptop suite for any class and have it set up in their classroom. Several members of staff have already availed of this facility for classes such as Science, English and Technology as shown below.

Computer club

This takes place in E1 every Monday and Tuesday at lunchtime and every Monday morning before college starts in E12. The computer suite is full every week, of students from all year groups. Students are given the opportunity to complete work; research using the Internet; surf and play games. All students are supervised and web sites are monitored. More Information