Office 365 for Education is providing schools with free email service for staff and students on their own school web addresses. Additionally staff and students will avail of free file storage which can substantially reduce costs and responsibilities on the school IT systems, a secure web space to facilitate staff sharing and collaboration, and a […]
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This year’s Maths Counts conference will be taking place at University College Dublin on Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th of April. A wide range of practical presentations will be offered by teachers from Who is the best penalty scorer? (Equivalent fractions to the rescue) to Walking the talk : Generating and
Google has recently announced Education on Air which is a free on-line conference about leading for the future and shaping today’s classrooms. This event which will take place on May 8th -9th is open to anyone with an interest in education: teachers, administrators, students, parents, school leaders… Education on Air is hosted on-line so you can join
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Much of the initial argument to introduce 1-to-1 digital learning devices in schools hinged on the imperative to address physically demanding weight of students’ schoolbags.Now however management and teachers are tasked with advancing these devices beyond e-readers. Here lies a bone of contention; devices were opted for without proper consideration, training, and planning regarding their
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2011 saw the inaugural iGBL conference led by Dr. Patrick Felicia in Waterford Institute of Technology. Five years on and the Symposium is going from strength to strength with a two day event based at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) in Dun Laoghaire on Thursday 4th June & Friday 5th June 2015.
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It is just about 17 months (back in September 2013} since I wrote about a Microsoft offer to Education whereby Microsoft were offering 32 Gb versions of their original Surface RT 10 inch tablets to their educational institution customers at a discounted price of just under €200. At the time I considered that they represented good value for
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I think my school was the first to offer online enrollment forms in Ireland back in 2008 and we’re now into our 7th year of offering this service. Around half of all our enrollments into our school come through our online form and the feedback we have received from parents is excellent. We use Gravity Forms for our
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While wondering around the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2015 I came across the project titled “MATHletes: Male vs Female, primary v secondary”. This project investigated which gender and which school level either primary or secondary, is more engaged in MATHletes used through Khan Academy. Up to this point I had heard about MATHletes
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Boomwriter is a web site hosting three areas that creative teachers can use across several curriculum subjects. The main feature of each distinct but inter-related area is a text entry / writing tool that students can use to create a piece of writing. Area 1 – “Story Starts” features several pages of starting paragraphs or
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Our tendency to over promise the impact of ICT … March 13th is Digital Learning Day in the United States where “all teachers, librarians, media specialists, principals, parents, community members, and administrators from public, private, charter, and home-school settings” are asked to “try something new on Digital Learning Day and share what they learned”. It
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