Finally it’s a reality; a reality that carries a side bar of lots and lots of “No’s”! Light speed broadband with no bottlenecks, no copper cables, no long download times, no live-streaming lags and no other nationwide roll out anywhere else in Europe!Siro is now delivering a total fibre to building solution to a select […]
Massive Open Online Courses – What Would You Like to Learn? The New York Times christened 2012 the year of the MOOC and there was massive hype around the launch of services such as edX and Coursera around this time. However, as we near the end of 2015 the word MOOC is heard less often,
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Symbaloo- A web application to organise collections of websites It is always very satisfying to find a new piece of software that executes a simple idea well. Last year I found Symabloo and it has been a great addition to my work with students and colleagues. Symbaloo is a web application that allows you to organise all your
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Noteflight is a fantastic website and mobile app which allows users to write, store, listen to, print, search, share and collaborate on notated musical compositions right in their browser or on their mobile device. With plans from free to premium the aim of the developers is to provide an easy, accessible tool for budding composers
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The International E-STEP conference took place in Athens on November 7th. It was hosted by the 8th International Conference in Open and Distance Learning 2015, “Innovation and Research in Open & Distance Learning and in Information Communications Technology.” Over the last couple of years, the E-STEP project set about helping teachers and school leaders acquire and reinforce
We recently purchased 15 Ipads for our school. Being a PC/Android person all my life I was not overly familiar with how teachers might display or mirror what they are doing on the Ipad device to the classroom projector. After a little bit of research I discovered that there are multiple options available. This post
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Educational technology use has exploded in Irish schools over the last five years and almost every primary classroom in the country uses technology in some way everyday. It’s hard to believe that only 10 years ago, less than 4% of schools reported to use technology on a daily basis! However, in Ireland, this journey has
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Having started in a new school in September I was bursting to share my ideas with the pupils and staff on blogging, Mission V, scratch programming, Khan Academy and a host of other I.C.T. ideas for the pupils to enjoy. Unfortunately, when we turned on the thirty new laptops and they all logged onto the
I recently came across a new online quiz tool “Quizizz” and quickly realised its potential as an online assessment tool for the primary classroom. Similar in ways to “Kahoot“, Quizizz provides realtime feedback to a teacher and their pupils as they engage with a series of questions on tablet devices, mobile phones, laptops or desktop
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The Department of Education and Skills (DES) recently launched their Digital Strategy for Schools, 2015-2020; Enhancing Teaching, Learning and Assessment. This is the latest in a series of strategies and policy statements since December 1997 when the Department launched Schools IT2000. I have to declare up-front that I was involved the creation of both documents.
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