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Interview with Andy Hopkins

Simon — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:46:25 +0000

Rozz interviewed Andy Hopkins from Purple Mash, the online creativity suite by the people behind 2Simple Software. Andy demonstrated some of the new features of Purple Mash, including the ability to self assess and create great looking models and writing templates. Andy is looking for Irish speaking partners so if you’re interested, have a listen to his call for action and get in touch!

Podcast: Interview with Andrew Foyle

Simon — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:36:50 +0000

Rozz met up with the CEO of Sherston software, a company very familiar to Irish teachers. Sherston have provided software to Irish schools for many years, many of which have had a great resurrection thanks to the Interactive Whiteboard. Andrew has some great plans for Sherston. They have already released a number of their titles as apps on Smartphone and tablet devices. Andrew told us about how Sherston’s new products will track a pupil’s work for assessment on their web site Planet Sherston.

Podcast: Interview Liz Russell

Simon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:24:01 +0000

At the BETT Breakfast in London, we bumped into Liz Russell, a former teacher who set up an educational consultancy company, 21CLN. We spoke with her just as the news broke that Michael Gove, the education secretary in the UK, had made it easier for schools to fire teachers. Liz spoke to us about the pressures on teachers in the UK as well as about education consultancy in the UK and why schools need it.

Podcast: An interview with Tom Hodson

Simon — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:49:58 +0000

Tom Hodson is the president of Smart Technologies. We caught up with him at BETT 2012 at the Smart stand where he told us about his views for technology for this year. Tom also let us know about some of the new products SMART are going to be offering educators including a new interactive projector and Notebook 11, the new software for Smart Boards.

June 2011 Podcast

Simon — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:11:08 +0000

This month’s podcast is the second last one of the school year. Simon discusses the recent cuts in children’s education but attempts to lift the gloom by celebrating the great work done by teachers all over Ireland. The podcast goes through all the articles on Anseo.net this month.

Anseo.net May 2011 Podcast

Simon — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:01:30 +0000

This month’s podcast can be listened to here. The aim of the podcast is to give a general feel of this month’s edition of Anseo.net with a few extra bits thrown in. In this podcast, Simon goes through all the articles featured on Anseo.net this month but also gives some extra opinions on Moodle and Mental Maths. We hope you enjoy the podcast and please leave some comments to let us know if we can improve it in any way.

Podcast: April 2011

Simon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:23:40 +0000

Our first podcast reviewing our April edition of Anseo.net. Have a listen below and post some comments to encourage/discourage us!

Podcast: Inside Education – CESI 2011

Simon — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:30:33 +0000

The following podcast links to Inside Education’s recent podcast from CESI 2011 where Simon was interviewed about cloud computing. You can tune into Inside Education every week on 103.2 Dublin City FM in the Dublin area (Sundays at 7:30pm) with live streaming on www.dublincityfm.ie.

Anseo Podcast: BETT 2011

Simon — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:01:20 +0000

Anseo.net paid a visit to BETT 2011. Using the Easi-Speak from TTS, Simon interviewed some people and found a few surprises along the way! Have a listen and see what you think.

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Podcast: Cloud Computing for Communication

Simon — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:00:11 +0000

This is an updated podcast about how my school uses cloud computing for communication. Recorded at the Irish Teaching and Learning Festival, I explore how cloud computing is great for communicating with staff and parents. We use Google Apps, Facebook and Aladdin mainly for communication purposes.