Microsoft Malta was one of the sponsors of this year’s edition of EMBED, which also featured an exhibition of all the eTwinning projects and other ICT related projects created by teachers and students in Malta and Gozo.
Microsoft Malta supported the staging of this event, which was held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta last week, and is also holding workshops for children on the uses of Microsoft Office in Education with the help of the eLearning centre.
This exhibition week also featured pupils’ workshops showcasing their use of various software and innovative technologies throughout their learning processes. The conference culminated in an award giving ceremony for the best projects, as well as presentation of awards to the best eTwinning projects for the scholastic year 2010-2011 in primary and in secondary schools.
“The use of technology and ICT in today’s educational curriculum is no longer an option but a necessity if we want to prepare our students for tomorrow’s business world and the challenges that an innovative, inclusive and dynamic Europe based on a knowledge-based economy and society will bring,” said Fiorella Ellul Sullivan, Academic Program Manager at Microsoft Malta. “Microsoft is one of the many stakeholders whose engagement and participation, alongside that of civil society, government, business, education and the non-governmental sector, will be necessary to deliver this European knowledge society and this is what spurs Microsoft Malta to associate itself with this event.”
EMBED is an event within the eLearning sphere that seeks to promote the latest ICT products and innovations related to education as well as ways how these can be integrates in the national educational curriculum.
A number of workshops for students are organised, while teachers will be awarded for their innovative ways of successfully embedding technology in their respective classrooms. These teachers who already apply technology in the way they teach act as an inspiration to their colleagues and lead to more ICT-friendly students.