Dans la section Technicien en bureautique sont dispensés des cours d’initiation à l’anglais informatique, à raison de 4 périodes par semaine. Dans un travail collaboratif à distance et en anglais, les élèves vous présentent la section, ses cours et ses professeurs ainsi que l’enseignement dispensé à distance.

School presentation

IEPSCF is a ‘Promotion Sociale’ school or a school for adult education, where I do my training as an office technician. The institute offers training in several specialities like electricity, computer maintenance, photography, typing, sewing, drawing … and other types of training.

The institute is located in Blegny, it has one department, it’s old-fashioned, yet it is so large.

The teachers and the secretary are nice and friendly. Because of the ‘covid-19’ the lessons are done remotely now until we can come back to school☺

What about the formation of Office automation technician?

PowerPoint course:

One year ago, I discovered PowerPoint lessons. It’s a lesson given by Virginie and where we can bring out our artistic side, a wonderful program. But this lesson provides support to any oral presentation. It’s given by a passionate, devoted and patient teacher and above all human. Without this teacher, nothing would be the same. This woman, who gives me the desire to continue learning and not let go. Thanks to her, to her encouragement. She is very professional. I would like, by this little presentation to thank her. “Thanks, Virginie!”

Word course:

In the office automation section, we have the Word course. It’s one of the principal courses of the option and the teacher is Virginie Boulle. In this course, the first reflexes that we must have, are those of always putting our text at “justify” and chose one of the three fonts considered official for the business mails.

Graphical Operating systems:

Today, I’ll speak about Olivier’s lesson. We learn technology. Olivier is a special teacher and funny. His lessons will lead us to our diploma. We have Olivier every Tuesday. At the moment, we work at home. There is COVID 19. I hope to go back to school soon.

English course:

In the office automation section, there is the English course. You will acquire the basics of oral and written communication. At the end of the training, answering the phone, talking with a client or acquaintance, shopping, going to a restaurant, booking a hotel, writing an email, doing some research or purchase on the Internet, will be situations in which you will feel perfectly at ease.

Communication course:

This course is organised to learn notetaking and to take position in front of a conference presented on a very specific subject. But first, this course will begin by a self-presentation with a few very funny questions that allow us to get to know each other and to feel more at ease with each other. This exercise puts a real life and complicity between us. Since this day, we are all attentive to each other. A wonderful experience! What would I be if I was a flower…? And why? Does it remind you of anything, dear colleagues? Hihihihi

What do we do? Students’ opinions…

In the first year, we have a communication course with Virginie, we learn note taking and position taking.
We have a course called Graphical Operating Software.
The teacher’s name is Olivier Remy.

In this course we learn to:

• start up the computer system,
• use the computer interface and customise it,
• install and uninstall programs,
• use the different computer devices,
• we learn the names of the different interface elements and their features.

It is a course based on the technique and the practice.

Student 1:

Hello, I would like to talk to you about something that I find important. The breaks. These are very pleasant because we can talk with our friends about the lesson but about our life too. When the teacher is friendly, he (she) comes with us and so can we get to know him or her. Our friends can motivate us and explain things we don’t understand.

Student 2:

We are lucky to have a teacher who is young, smiling and always in a good mood. Ms Lombet takes time to explain and adapts to the level of each student. We learn this vocabulary which relates to our future job in office automation.

Student 3:

At the moment, we have Word and PowerPoint lessons with Virginie. In Word we learned all the different layouts, different commands. We are now typing beautiful texts. In the PowerPoint course, we learn to make presentations with a slide show. We learn to animate our slides, animate text, images, it’s beautiful. Soon we will have a presentation to make in front of our friends.

Student 4:

In the 2nd year, there are computer and office automation courses and website creation courses. One day a week of computer course and three days a week of office automation course. These are more advanced courses. We have every Friday off. At the end of the training, we take an exam in front of a jury to obtain the diploma.

COVID-19 in our school life…

When we closed the computers for the summer vacation, we hoped to be left alone by the COVID-19. But it seems that we have to live in school again with it. Now, we have school at home, all of our teachers use ‘Moodle’ and ‘Discord’ to help us with our studies.

These are platforms that facilitate our online courses. This is how we can keep ’in touch’ with the teachers and students. It’s the same as school, we start at 8:40 a.m. and finish at midday, but we are at home. But it’s true that, because of that, we can sleep more.

Because of the COVID-19, we must stay home. The courses are done remotely. It’s a big drawback. The courses are more restrictive.

BENEFITS:

• students no longer need to travel and follow schedules. You work from wherever you want, whenever you want, all you need is a WI-FI connection and a computer;
• we are at home;
• distance learning is suitable for all rhythms;
• we become more responsible.

DISADVANTAGES:

• we can have hardware issues. Some parents work and need their computer,
• sometimes there are bugs with our computers,
• we can have problems with the Internet,
• the lack of supervision can be a problem,
• the lack of organisation can be felt.

Travail réalisé par les élèves de 1ère année Technicien en bureautique

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