In this latest podcast, Michael Hallissy speaks with Robert O’Leary, Principal of Sacred Heart SNS, Killinarden. Since the nineties Robbie has been at the forefront of ICT integration in Ireland, writing and lecturing extensively on the subject and also developing a range of educational digital content. A long time advocate of the importance of relevant […]
On Sunday morning last, those of you who tweet might have noticed a new hashtag appear with prominence in the twittersphere: #savewordle. Wordle, an online application (available at http://www.wordle.net) for generating ‘word clouds’, had been taken down and the founder, Jonathan Feinberg, had used the homepage of the site to appeal for “pro bono legal
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I am currently attending the Consortiuum of School Networking Conference (CoSN) in Washington DC and had the pleasure this morning to attend an excellent session on the future of “long-term embedded teacher professional development”. The session was led by Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach who described a world where teachers build their own learning networks.
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In this latest podcast in our International Perspectives series, Michael Hallissy speaks with Sara Hennessy of Cambridge University. Sara works in the education faculty at Cambridge as a Lecturer in Teacher Development and Pedagogical Innovation, and has conducted much research into the use of IWBs in UK classrooms, particularly how children can use IWBs. Sara
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Below is an extract from my article “Head in the Clouds” which won the most influential blog post of 2009 in the Edublog Awards. The full article can be seen here. Over the last couple of years, the term “Cloud Computing” has been buzzing around in the techie world. Inevitably, it buzzes into the education
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Craig Barrett, the former chairman of Intel Corporation, was in Ireland last week and spoke at an event in the Royal Irish Academy. On Saturday morning, February 13th 2010, he shared his views with John Kenny on the Marianne Finucane Show (click to download the interview) in relation to the need for Ireland to create
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Here are a couple of resources that teachers might find of use in their classrooms, both of which are ideal for presenting or using on an Interactive White Board. The first has quickly become a valuable resource to me in teaching Science as part of the SESE curriculum. It comes from the University of Colorado
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www.cesi.ie In this podcast host Clifford Brown is joined by Adrienne Webb,Vice-Chair and Anne McMurrough, National Executive member of CESI (The Computer Education Society of Ireland), to talk about the voluntary organisation that has been championing the cause of ICT integration in education since 1973. The discussion focuses on CESI’s plans for 2010, including regional
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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It’s rarely that we get a chance to hear someone on these shores providing an enlightened insight into the role of education in a digital society. Lord Puttnam, film director and now Chairman of Futurelab (an organisation we much admire), gave a talk to the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin on
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