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 [...]
When I’m not writing articles for Anseo.net, I have a paid job which takes up most of the other 22 hours of my day, as a principal of an Educate Together school. Every year, Educate Together organise a conference for its principals and we get to meet and learn from each other. It’s always [...]
The CESI list is always worth keeping an eye on. Out of the blue, last week, Michael Seery from DIT Kevin Street posted the following message up:
As part of an MSc (E-learning) course, myself and three colleagues developed a site aiming to show how to use Google sites to set up a class website.
Not only [...]
Sometimes when browsing the web, you come across a gem of a web site. I don’t usually single people out on this web site, but I think I have found the most active class blog in the country. I don’t know Ms. Leydon personally but she is, according to the blog, a 3rd [...]
As I’m not a teacher or a subject specialist – in fact I run my own business – my blog is aimed at helping the schools we work with, and it may be helpful to the visitors here. (In my blog you’ll see a fair emphasis on free digital imaging tools – I’m colour blind [...]
Faced with the exciting prospect of having a new Smart Interactive Whiteboard in my classroom in September I took it upon myself to become armed with a host of internet resources. I opened up Google and typed in “Interactive Whiteboard resources” only to find that there were 1,480,000 links. Where to [...]
For those of you following me on Twitter, you would have heard me going on about a new web site that I’m writing called Mash.ie. Essentially, this web site is another idea I have of making teachers’ lives a little easier, including my own. Now, Mash.ie is not up and running yet. It’ll take another [...]
It’s great to hear about schools who take it upon themselves to be involved in worthwhile and innovative projects. The following is a news release from Jim O’Sullivan from O’Sullivan Software Solutions, which outlines a really cool Web 2.0 project taken on by ten schools in Co. Clare.
“Teachers from eight Primary and two Secondary [...]
Gifts4Fones and the Jack and Jill Foundation have been in the news lately due to their similar ventures in schools. Both organisations are offering schools the opportunity to swap old mobile phones for Interactive Whiteboards. Gifts4fones are working with Smartboard and Jack and Jill are working with Clarity, who supply Promethean boards. However, Gifts4fones are [...]
Kathryn Crowley from the NCCA alerted me (and the hundreds of teachers subscrided to DICTAT) that there are now 20 primary school exemplars provided by teachers from Digital Schools across the country uploaded to the ACTION website. Their subject/content include interactive phonics, counties of Ireland, control technology, people in the community, field [...]
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