Computer facilities

Facilities

The computer facilities for trainees are to be found in the Internet Room ('E' floor).

The facilities include 15 PCs equipped with either Windows 2000 or XP, on which we are using Open Office software (Microsoft Office compatible) and/or Microsoft Word, with a good Internet connection. Trainees used to the sort of speed you get in the US, for example, may however be slightly disappointed with what is considered good in Spain.

There is also a laser printer (black and white only), and a scanner.

All of the above is included as part of your course (though we do charge for printing things which are for personal rather than for course use).

At times of day when you are not in input sessions or doing your teaching practice, 5 of the PCs are reserved for your exclusive use, and the other 10 you may also book out.

The Internet Room in fact occupies two rooms, one of which you will occasionally find closed either for a seminar (including one of the input sessions on the CELTA course) or because there is a teacher using it with a group of students.

Support Staff

The Internet Room is staffed by Tom, Sergio and Natxo. If you need any help with anything at any time, please do come and ask: providing help is what we are there for.

For things that are course-related, your tutor is obviously the person to turn to for help; but if it's technology-related, head up to 'E' floor!

For TEFL sites, you will probably find the TEFL sites section on this site interesting.

For anything to do with Barcelona, we can probably also help, apart from anything else as we maintain a Barcelona directory of sites of all kinds of interest to our students.

For anyone not particularly proficient with computers (not something which the course requires), we are also happy to provide the help you might need with the basic things you may want or need to do.

Wireless access

For the duration of your course, wireless access is available to you if you have a suitably equipped laptop.

Note that we loan you a card: you require our card, not your in-built card.

We regret that wireless access is not available for Mac users.

Opening times

The Internet Room is open to all students at IH at the following times:

Monday to Thursday, 10.30 to 21.00
Friday, 10.30 to 18.00
Saturday, 9.30 to 13.00

However, for teacher training course trainees, during CELTA courses the room is also open from 8.00am (i.e. before your first session of the day) from Monday to Thursday.

A different timetable may operate in August.

FAQs

Please note the following points:

We recommend a keydrive (aka pendrive, thumbdrive, "nerdstick" etc) rather than diskettes, though you can also use these.
Should you bring your laptop with you...? See this page.
For further questions about computer facilities, etc, you can contact the Internet Room directly.