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http://www.teachers.tv/videos/visualisers Many schools are investigating the purchase and use of Visualisers with the recent technology funding received in schools towards the end of last year. In this video, David Orritt a Year 3 teacher and School ICT Coordinator is investigating the purchase and use of Visualisers for his own school and adopts the very sensible […]

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Jan 7 2011

The US Technology Plan

By TeachNet Admin

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

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Dec 13 2010

Dropbox. A Great App For Teachers

By Paul Munroe

It’s becoming increasingly common for computer users to have important files living on multiple PCs. The challenge is keeping these files synced across various systems—without the need to e-mail anything to yourself or carry a USB drive. That’s where Dropbox comes in. This cloud-based service’s cross-platform compatibility, file versioning, and a free iPhone app make

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Dec 7 2010

The ‘Interesting Ways’ Series

By Enda Donlon

One of the most current and useful resources that you’ll find for ideas on how to use technology in education is the ‘Interesting Ways’ series, which is the brainchild of Tom Barrett (follow him on Twitter at @tombarrett) and which can be found on Tom’s blog at http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/. The ‘Interesting Ways’ series is a fantastic

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Dec 3 2010

ICT in the News –“A lot done but plenty more to do”

By Michael Hallissy

All schools received good news from the DES in November with the release of over 43 million Euro into the system for investment in ICT infrastructure. This investment is to be welcomed and is badly needed as evidenced by the NCTE 2005 census (Shiel and O’Flaherty) and subsequent calls for investment in the Department’s “Investing

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Dec 3 2010

Online Publishing & Content Management Systems Podcast

By TeachNet Admin

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

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Nov 29 2010

Ensuring Quality in Using ICT in Learning and Education

By John Hurley

The “Getting it Right – Making it Work” eQSF Launch and European Conference takes place next week. eQSF is the result of collaboration between six European partners in a project funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission. The project has developed an easy-to-use self-assessment tool designed for schools and education providers to

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Nov 25 2010

Literacy and Numeracy – Draft National Plan to Improve Levels

By Clifford Brown

The findings of a report, ‘Incidental Inspections 2010′, published on the 23rd November 2010 by the Inspectorate of the DES on the outcomes of unannounced inspections in primary schools in the last year” found that over 80% of lessons were satisfactory or better. However, over 14% of English and mathematics lessons were unsatisfactory. They also

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Nov 22 2010

Are you sitting comfortably? It’s Storytime…

By Emma Hallinan

The Storyline Online website, a literacy development initiative from the Screen Actors Guild of America, is a collection of short stories narrated on screen by actors (some of whom each of you will recognise, depending on your era!). The stories take between 5 and 10 minutes each to tell, and feature animations and images from

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Nov 19 2010

Science Week and Twitter

By Simon Lewis

Last week was Science Week in Ireland and I decided to try out another Twitter project for schools. For those of you who may have missed the previous Twitter projects that I did with Irish primary schools, the idea behind them was to investigate whether Twitter could be used to support the Primary School Curriculum

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