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 […]
ICT in the News –“A lot done but plenty more to do” Read More »
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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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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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
Literacy and Numeracy – Draft National Plan to Improve Levels Read More »
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
Are you sitting comfortably? It’s Storytime… Read More »
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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Further to the recent post on ‘History and Web 2.0 tools’ I wanted to inform people of the excellent iWalk MP3 recordings which are available for Dublin and Cork. Fáilte Ireland in conjunction with Dublin City Council and Cork City Council have created a number of podcasts on different historical topics for both cities which
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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
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Cartoon Story Maker 1.1 is a lovely piece of free software used to create 2D cartoons. Children can import an unlimited number of ready made backgrounds called frames or use their own e.g. the school, the yard. The cartoons/stories are great to encourage children’s language skills. They can be used for any target language.
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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
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