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 […]
A lot of primary schools now use WordPress blogs as their school website. Usually the ICT coordinator updates this with news and events. What I would like to see happening is all teachers within the school adding posts with pictures of their pupils activities. I would also like to see pupils doing this. To facilitate
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As February rolls around, it’s time to mark the calendar for the weekend of the 4th & 5th – the 2011 CESI Conference. Once again the conference is in Portlaoise, which proved a popular venue last year. This year’s theme is ICT in Education – Changing Landscapes. Any Irish educator with an interest in integrating
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Are you looking for a safe, free to use, advertisement free, easy to manage blog for your primary school students? Kidsblog http://kidblog.org/home.php has ticked many of the boxes for me. I had toiled with the idea of using edublogs, blogger, wordpress, scoilnet blogs and others but this was just so clear cut for the purpose
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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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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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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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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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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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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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