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Because of the annoying blocking of YouTube by the powers that be in HeaNet, Seaghan Moriarty from Digilogue and Scoil.net has created Teachers’ TV – an Irish version.  Though the site is not completely finished, it is now live and accepting videos.  The idea was hatched because a number of teachers really wanted to use | Read on…

A very interesting idea came up on the Education Posts forum yesterday and it really made me think about how we apply for jobs in primary schools in Ireland, particularly in the current climate where there’s so few jobs.  The thread gave some recommendations: “first of all there should be a standard application forms for | Read on…

The Irish Independent featured an article about how Ireland is languishing near the bottom of league tables for computer usage. Everyone is pointing their finger at the government. So, a nice big committee full of Department of Education officials, a couple of quangos and the heads of Ireland’s major IT companies have got together to | Read on…

A few months ago I received an email from the IPPN, (Irish Primary Principals Network), announcing that they had partnered up with a company called BlueKop who were selling refurbished laptops and PCs.  Now, I’d never heard of BlueKop before this and I had been dealing with a different company called GreenIT who have something | Read on…

Just over 8 months ago, I published a post asking the above question, Are Interactive Whiteboards all that?  I mentioned that I encountered Interactive Whiteboards for the first time in 2002 and gave a little bit of history surrounding them.  I also published some informal findings on how teachers were using them and coming to | Read on…