Month: June 2010

Interactive Whiteboard Summer Courses

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With only a few days to go before the summer holidays, I thought it might help if I let people know about Interactive Whiteboard summer courses. I’ll be giving one in Kilkenny  this year but there’s plenty of others available, some of which are online. I’d also love to hear some feedback about IWB courses … Read more

iFestival 2010

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iFestival 2010 is taking place in the Central Library, Ilac Centre from the 9th to the 26th of June 2010. I’ve been following some of the tweets about the exhibition and I’d be recommending people check out the talk by Anne McMorrough and Ban Ryan who are exploring the use of Nintendo in the classroom,

Scoilnet services now available at home to teachers

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One of the criticisms that teachers had of Scoilnet’s services such as the World Map, the Britannica Encyclopaedia and the Irish Times Archive was that we could only access them at school. Furthermore, schools could only access these services if they had a decent Broadband connection from the NCTE. The good news is that the … Read more

iPod Touch in the Classroom

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Damien Quinn is one of Ireland’s most innovative teachers. When he saw the potential the iPod Touch had for education, he teamed up with Apple through his local education centre  and started to use the devices in his classroom. The project is also going on through two other education centres in Kilkenny and Wexford.  You … Read more

Spell Rite Right (Learning Horizons)

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I worked with a small group of children in the Support setting for the last 6 months with the “Spell Rite Right” programme. The variety of exercises in the Spell Rite Right programme made it enjoyable to use and continuously held the students’ interest. Each unit has clever methods and mental strategies to help the … Read more

ICS Skills Conference 2010

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I was invited to speak at the Irish Computer Society’s annual conference in April.  I was introduced as someone who would give an insight and examples into the virtual staff notice board and how I  have made life a little easier for teachers using free web applications.  I hope I managed to do that.  My talk was based on my article, “Heads in the Cloud”, and I spoke about how my school utilises Google Apps for our complete communication system.  For those of you who want to listen to the talk, below is a podcast.  It does rely a little bit on a couple of images in places, but you should get a good picture of what I do, without seeing the slides.

BECTA closing down

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Bad news for Irish schools as well as UK schools with the news that BECTA is being closed down due to budgetary cuts. This article from Meris Stansbury outlines the international impact this decision will have for education.  I hope this decision does not give our government any ideas.  The NCTE are doing a pretty … Read more

Press Release: Liosdoire supplying Epson Projector

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From Stephen Linnane, Liosdoire We can supply and install the below with amp and speakers for € 2100 EPSON EB450Wi EDU: —Interactive,Interactivity on any wall or standard whiteboard. 2500 Lumen, WXGA (Widescreen)2000:1 Contrast, 3 Year Lamp Warranty Also the AVERMEDIA VISUALISER CP135 FOR €390

Why don’t VEC primary schools have web sites?

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If I want to find out about a school for a particular reason, the first thing I do is look for their web site. There’s very few schools opened in the last 5 years that don’t have a web site. That is, with the exception, of the 5 VEC schools in Ireland. If one searches … Read more

Our Twitter Experiment according to 6th Class

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The following article was written by 2 sixth class pupils in St. Martin de Porres NS in Dublin. Their teacher is Anne McMorrough, a well known primary school teacher in ICT circles. I’m delighted that the children got so much out of Twitter and I look forward to trying it out again! Over to you … Read more

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