AI text to image! Which one?
AI: Text to image. Initial thoughts on Canva text to image, Midjourney and DALL-E for creating personalised and specific images.
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Level Up Your Skills This Summer with Dream Space & TeachNet
Get ready to unleash your students’ curiosity, embrace computational thinking, and embark on game-based learning adventures. Join the Dream Space team as they delve into three innovative blended courses that will empower you to create engaging and effective learning environments. STEM Starters – Igniting Curiosity in Young Learners is specifically designed for teachers working with
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Passwords are like underwear
…., you shouldn’t let people see it, change it frequently, and don’t share it with people you don’t know Chris Prillo So why the interest in passwords…. Dear reader… recently I was a victim of a Facebook hack where multiple Facebook friends were hit with messages purporting from me, looking for money. Fortunately, the unfortunate
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Creating End of Year Video Slideshows
Its quickly coming to that time of year again when teachers think about making an end-of-year video slideshow for their classes. Be it 6th class graduating to secondary school or Leaving Certs getting ready to say goodbye to 2nd level education, teachers will often include a video slideshow as part of their graduation ceremony. Summarizing
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Shaping the Future…@ICTedu Conference 23
The ICT in Education conference takes place on the Thurles campus of the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) on Saturday 13th May. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Shaping the Future of Education – Exploring technology that is changing the way we teach’. Keynote addresses on the future of education and the impact
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Practical Uses of ChatGPT
Since its launch in late 2022, ChatGPT has dominated much of the discourse around technology in education. Indeed, on this very platform, we have seen many blog posts on the topic (‘ChatGPT won’t replace me’ and ‘How might chatbox technology impact on education and training?’). Over the past few months, I have been experimenting with
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BETT 23 – Musings from London’s ExCel
BETT (British Educational Training and Technology Show) returned to the ExCeL Arena in London from March 29th – 31st and I was delighted to be back having missed last year’s return of this flagship educational technology event post covid. The official stats maintain I was one of 30,000 educators, policy makers, EdTechs and industry changemakers
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Chat GPT won’t replace me!
Opinion post alert: Chat GPT/AI won’t replace me! Here is why!
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CESI is the thread joining the dots of ed tech in Irish education
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future” Steve Jobs On 11th March, CESI held its annual conference and celebrated 50 years in Irish education. It proved a great opportunity for present and former members
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FÍS Storyboard Storytelling Competition 2023
It hard to believe that the brilliant FÍS Film Project has been running for almost 25 years. Led by Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dún Laoghaire (IADT) in Partnership with PDST, its core objective is to introduce the medium of film to primary students and explore how it can enhance the educational and life
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