Tips for avoiding ‘death-by-presentation’!
Tips for avoiding ‘death-by-presentation- and useful tools.
CESI: 50 Years and Growing
The 2023 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland will take place on Saturday 11th March. They will be celebrating their Golden Jubilee, all under the theme of “50 Years and Growing. The conference will take place in ATU Galway City. The CESI Conference has long been the calendar highlight for Irish …
Cosán: National Framework for Teachers’ Learning
Over the past number of years, I have been delighted to have been involved in the development of the Teaching Council Framework entitled “Cosán”. This framework recognises teacher professional development and reflection as we progress throughout our professional careers. It has been a long process from the development of the framework to delivering the framework …
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Podcasting with Anchor
Everyone seems to be creating Podcasts these days and if making your very own Podcast is on your Wishlist for 2023 then you’ll be delighted to know that this process is totally free and has never been easier to do. Podcasting has become popular in the classroom as a means of allowing students to collaborate …
New Year, New Me? ‘New Year Resolutions’ to Make Me a Better Teacher
It seems strange thinking about making changes to my daily / weekly routine at this stage in the academic year but it probably makes more sense really. The last term, for me personally, was a rollercoaster (a very fast one) and I never really got to grips with my time and task management until late …
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#OneWord2023 DistruptED
Can playing with AI give educators back their time? As an educator and from working with educators, I know we are always looking for ways to improve our practice and better meet the needs of our students. The biggest challenge we face is time, or lack of. For the year ahead, my one word for …
Death by PowerPoint. Guilty? You are not alone!
Is this the reason why educators fall into the death-by-presentation trap? Is this a workable solution to try?
Teams – What’s New for Twenty-Two
A year back I posted Microsoft Teams – Your Ever-evolving Digital Classroom which charted, what I thought were the most useful updates to MS Teams for students and teachers over the previous 12 months and with 2023 fast approaching, I’m going to revisit Microsoft’s ubiquitous digital learning hub to run the rule over the new …
The Fun They Had
This blog post is a bit of a time traveller as we will jump from 1986 to 1951 then to 2155 and back again to the present day. Hop into the De Loren and off we go. In 1986, I was in 6th class and in my English book was a short story by the …
Digital Detox: Top Tips!
We live in a connected world. That is, the Digital World! Never in human history have we been so connected to one another. We benefit from instant news, media, programmes, games, online shopping, online banking, online working! Most of this is from the device that we can fit into our own pockets – the mobile …