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Interview with Michael Hallissy & Eamon Codd In our latest podcast, host Clifford Brown is joined by Michael Hallissy of TeachNet and teacher Eamon Codd to talk about Tmail, TeachNet’s free email & online tools for teachers and schools, powered by Windows Live. During this short podcast Michael explains the rationale behind the services whilst […]

Interview with co-founders James Corbett & Margaret Keane In our latest podcast, Michael Hallissy is joined by James Corbett and Margaret Keane, co-founders of Mission V, to talk about their cutting edge iniative, specialising in the use of game-based learning and virtual worlds technology with primary school pupils. MissionV is a cloud based virtual world

Interview with Michael Hallissy & John Hurley of TeachNet Ireland www.teachnet.ie With the summer course season nearly upon us for 2011, host Clifford Brown is joined by Michael Hallissy & John Hurley of TeachNet Ireland, to talk about TeachNet’s expanding online summer course programme. For Summer 2011, TeachNet are offering 17 EPV day approved CPD

In our latest podcast, Michael Hallissy is joined by Margaret Keane founder of GiftedKids.ie to talk about this excellent support website she has been developing since 2008 for parents and educators of “gifted” children in Ireland. GiftedKids.ie hosts a broad range of resources for parents, teachers and children, including a very popular online community forum

​ In this latest podcast, Michael Hallissy is joined again by Robbie O’Leary, Principal of Sacred Heart SNS, Killinarden, to talk about his new book ‘ICTs in the Primary School – Teaching and learning for the 21st century’, co-authored with colleague John O’Mahony. Divided into two sections, section one provides a range of practical advice

In our latest Podcast TeachNet’s John Hurley is joined by Adrienne Webb, Chairperson of the Computer Education Society of Ireland, ahead of their 2011 Annual Conference “ICT in Education – Changing Landscapes”. Adrienne talks about the history of the voluntary organisation that has been championing the cause of ICT integration in education since 1973, details

In our latest TeachNet podcast Michael Hallissy interviews Professor Chris Dede on the background to the recent US Education Technology Plan, ‘Transforming American Education, Learning Powered by Technology’.  Chris was a member of the Technical Working Group that developed the plan and he provides a fascinating insight into the content of the plan and the

In our latest podcast Michael Hallissy speaks with Enda Donlon, Lecturer at Mater Dei Institute & Webmaster of the Computer Education Society of Ireland about the concept of online educational publishing and in particular and the growing popularity of free web-based Content Management Systems (CMSs). During the discussion Enda outlines what he sees as the

In a break from our usual monthly podcast schedule, Michael Hallissy speaks with Neil Bruton of the LINK Research Centre in DCU to highlight their new exciting education webinar initiative, ‘Techspectations’. Techspectations follows on from the very successful 4C Initiative seminar series in 2010 and continues to offer free online seminars for educators on using

www.ncad.ie Do you ever consider how creative your lessons are or what you could do to promote creativity in the classroom? In this podcast Michael Hallissy speaks with Gary Granville of NCAD about the importance of the creative process and its place in the curriculum. During the discussion Gary outlines his definition of creativity and