Courses

Pre-service Computing teacher education - B.Ed.(Hons.) and PGCE

Currently I co-ordinate the Computing track in the B.Ed. (Hons.) and PGCE courses, and teach most of the methodology units, supervise students out on teaching practice, and supervise most dissertations in ICT/Computing education. The course website is at computing.educ.um.edu.mt.

I also co-ordinate a block of 12 ECTS credits in Educational Multimedia, offered as options within the B.Ed.(Hons.) programme.

In-service Computing teacher education - Post-graduate diplomas

Some years ago the Faculty launched a part-time post-graduate, in-service diploma for ICT and Computing teachers, which I designed and co-ordinate (I also teach some of the units).

The current course, which opened in October 2002, is a conversion course for teachers wishing to change over from another subject to teach Computer Studies at Secondary level. The course website is at www.educ.um.edu.mt/dip.cs.ed.

University of London external programme

Outside my University work, I also teach a module for part-time students following the University of London B.Sc.(Hons) Computing and Information Systems external programme. In the past I also taught the Compilers module in this degree programme. This way I keep in touch with the subject I train teachers to teach.

Short courses

I also do 1-off lectures/talks on:

• bibliographic research methods;
• use of ICT for TEFL;
• ICT in language and arts teaching.

Programming courses

In the past I have taught Lisp, Prolog and Logic Programming courses for the Department of Compuitng (Faculty of Science) as part of the B.Sc.(Hons) I.T. programme. I still have the notes for this last unit - they're available in PDF format (you will need Acrobat Reader 5 or later for most PDFs on this site). This material is based largely on my B.Sc. thesis on the implementation of Prolog, also in PDF format. Unfortunately the drawing program I used for the diagrams in these PDF files mangled some of the symbol fonts!!

These are the notes for a Pascal course I used to give to A-Level students way back - I had originaly developed these notes with Mike Rizzo (hi Mike!) when Turbo Pascal 3 was state of the art!! This version is for TP5 and dates back from about 1992.

Over the years I have also taught 80x86 assembly language, SQL and Fortran 77. Currently I do Delphi and C courses for teachers of Computing.

Programming