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Today I had a meeting but we weren’t in the same room when we met. This shouldn’t sound like a strange sentence in this day and age. Video conferencing has been around for a good few years now. I remember while working as a teacher in 2002 in Tallaght being part of a video-conference over | Read on…

As some of this site’s readers know, I work in an Educate Together school. One thing, as ET teachers, we’re always looking for are resources to support our Learn Together (LT) curriculum. Because Prim-Ed sell their books in several countries, a lot of their stuff that is usually tailored to the UK or Australian market | Read on…

I received an interesting email from Peter Blackbyrne from ImaginationGYM.  His company is partnering with an American organisation Safewave.org to “bring safer internet activities to school children in Ireland.” Essentially, he’s looking for volunteers to pilot a social networking site for children.  It’s already pretty big in the US and its ethos is to allow | Read on…

Outsourcing is a term that one would usually associate with big companies or government agencies.  However, most people in their everyday life use some form of outsourcing.  Essentially, outsourcing is an arrangement where a company or individual subcontracts services to another person or company.  Every company, no matter how big or small, will outsource to | Read on…

We all received our letters from the union this week, basically there is a moratorium in the public service and it means that acting B and A posts cannot be filled. Also, there will be no such thing as an A or B post within a certain amount of years..When a teacher with a post | Read on…

After the news of all the changes in Promthean yesterday here is an update to the situation.  Thanks to members of the CESI discussion list and to the NCTE for clarifying some matters. Firstly, Promethean (through Clarity or through the UK offices) will be issuing a statement to all schools very shortly to let them | Read on…

You really never know who reads your blog until you write something controversial. Yesterday I posted an article about Promethean. As their web site was down and I couldn’t get through to anybody at their distributor, Prim-Ed, as well as the fact that a company called Clarity were investing heavily in the Promethean brand, I | Read on…