New Minister for Education

Mary Coughlan is the new minister for education replacing Batt O’Keeffe. There has been some furore over this appointment, as Coughlan hasn’t exactly shone in her role as Tanaiste. Whilst Batt O’Keeffe’s tenure in the role of education minister will probably be best remebered for the savage cuts on special education and disadvantage in the … Read more

NCTE new filtering

The NCTE have changed their filtering for broadband connections.  This means that schools will now be able to access essential web sites such as YouTube and blogs.  This will be welcome news to teachers who have had to download good YouTube clips to USB keys before showing them to their class. The new filtering now … Read more

INTO branch opens a Facebook page

The West Liffey INTO branch have launched a Facebook page, “Teachers Talking Back”, to inform branch members of media reports from the INTO. A spokesperson from the branch said: We’re always on the lookout for ways to engage with the teachers who don’t come to INTO meetings because we feel they get their information via … Read more

Interactive Whiteboard Irish Review March 2010

There are now 24 different interactive whiteboards available in Ireland being sold by lots of different companies.  It’s getting quite saturated out there.  Last time I did the review, I was pondering on the implications of Promethean’s new distributors Westcoast.  Prim-Ed were beginning to focus on two boards – the Genee Board and the Hitachi … Read more

Wordle’s Legal Hurdle

It took me ages to think of a headline for this.  In case you haven’t heard, one of my favourite web 2.0 tools is going through some legal difficulties with regards to its name.  Wordle.net is (or was?) a tool for creating lovely word clouds.  We, as teachers, quickly saw the educational benefits and used … Read more

CESI Meet 2010 – Portlaoise

Last night was the beginning of the first CESI conference outside of Dublin in years.  As is now the norm, it began with a TeachMeet in the Heritage Hotel in Portlaoise.  As my wife and I checked into the hotel, we bumped into one of the organisers, he was panicking in a good way.  They … Read more

Co-operative Learning Conference

Although arranged by the Second Level Support Service, some talks are being held later this month about co-operative learning. It may be useful to some of you. Application forms, etc. can be found on the SLSS web site. Here’s the press release: We are delighted to announce details of our forthcoming Cooperative Learning conferences in … Read more

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