Digital Cre8or is a new and exciting course where both teachers and pupils can learn all about creating and sharing digital media. The Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology has setup Digital Cre8or Ireland as a not for profit organisation that offers the British Computer Society’s Digital Cre8or award to teachers and […]
http://studentresponsenetwork.com/ During the extended Christmas holiday due to the bad weather, while browsing I came across an interesting ICT initiative in New South Wales. The federal government is investing in putting a compact lightweight laptop in the hands of every Year 9 school pupil in 571 schools over the next four years. Installed on each
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Taoiseach Brian Cowan announced €150 million funding over three years a fortnight ago in a new Department of Education and Science plan for “Smart Schools”. €22 million was promised for primary schools before the end of the year. The first details of these very welcome ICT grants for primary schools began to emerge in the
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Sherston Software (http://www.sherston.com) announced a mega deal offer to schools in the UK where they offered full site licenced versions of over 100 of their titles in a bundle deal during the summer for £999 excluding VAT for those who ordered before 18th July 2009. The offer has been extended until 31 October and is
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Sherston Software (http://www.sherston.com) announced a mega deal offer to schools in the UK where they offered full site licenced versions of over 100 of their titles in a bundle deal during the summer for £999 excluding VAT for those who ordered before 18th July 2009. The offer has been extended until 31 October and is
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During MIX09 which was held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas from 18 – 20 March 2009 Microsoft announced their Microsoft Web Page Translator Widget. Those attending MIX09 were given a code to try out the Microsoft Web Page Translator widget. In addition anyone who wishes to try out the widget can register with
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World Maths Day 2009 takes place on 4th March next. World Maths Day A unique feature of World of World Maths Day is that it will run for 48 hours, once it is March 4th somewhere in the world. It will begin in Ireland on Tuesday March 3rd at 11.00 hours. The first World Maths
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The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives website is hosted by Utah State University. It has up to 100 virtual manipulatives, mainly java based, that are categorized by grade level and mathematics topics. The mathematics topics categories include Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis and Probability. These categories are closely related to the
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SEN Teacher The SEN Teacher website http://www.senteacher.org/Print/has a bank of 48 printable free resources that the busy primary teacher will find very useful. While the resources are aimed at the special educational needs teacher, mainstream class teachers from infants to the senior end of the primary school will find them useful. Each printable resource
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (U.K.) on one of their sites The Standard Sites has over 30 interactive teaching programmes for Primary Mathematics at http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframeworks/library/Mathematics/ICTResources/itps/ The programmes will support teachers in teaching the number, data, shape and space and measurement strands of the revised primary school curriculum. They are particularly suitable for use
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