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On Friday March 5th the US Department of Education released a draft of the National Educational Technology Plan: “Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology.” Launching the document the US Secretary of State Arne Duncan said that it “was prepared for the Office of Educational Technology by leading researchers and practitioners. It represents their best […]

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Mar 4 2010

Word Clouds in Education

By Enda Donlon

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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Mar 1 2010

Rethinking Teacher Professional Development for the 21st Century

By Michael Hallissy

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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Feb 18 2010

Cloud Computing for Administration

By Simon Lewis

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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Feb 16 2010

Craig Barrett’s views on Ireland’s need to create a world class education system

By Michael Hallissy

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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Jan 21 2010

Student Response Network

By John O' Mahony

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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Jan 20 2010

You must watch this David Puttnam speech!

By John Hurley

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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Jan 14 2010

CESI Conference 2010: “Creative Technology for Challenging Times”

By Enda Donlon

This year, the CESI Annual Conference will take place on Friday February 5th and Saturday February 6th in Portlaoise. The CESI conference has always been highly regarded for showcasing exciting and innovative technologies for teaching and learning, presented in practical and ‘real-life’ terms (many of the presentations are made by practicing teachers). This year’s conference

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Dec 17 2009

Using Video Conferencing in the Classroom

By Simon Lewis

After a couple of months of trying, I finally found a school willing to try out videoconferencing with me. Using Online Meeting Rooms, a brilliant online package from http://www.onlinemeetingrooms.com, my school, Carlow Educate Together hooked up with the Athy Model School, 20km down the road for a Christmas Carol sing-off. Each school sang two Christmas

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Dec 15 2009

Windows 7

By John Hurley

Wanting to be a head of the posse, I decided two years ago to purchase Vista on my new Asus Tablet. I basically struggled along for over a year and a half with a laptop that I now know was only half performing. On more than a few occasions almost found itself chucked out the

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