Jim Wynn joins Promethean as Chief Education Officer

Promethean announced the appointment of Jim Wynn to its senior management team as Chief Education Officer. Jim has over three decades of experience in education technology across more than fifty countries. He joins Promethean from Cisco, where he led their public sector consultancy for emerging markets, with an emphasis on education. Jim’s previous appointments include … Read more

ICT in Education Conference 2010

The ICT in Education Conference 2010 will be held in Tipperary Institute in Thurles, Co. Tipperary on Saturday, 15th May from 9am to 4pm. The theme for the conference is ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ and is split into two streams: • ICT in Education • Innovation in the Classroom The keynote speakers for this year … Read more

New common file format for IWBs

From Teachnet Blog (http://blog.teachnet.ie/?p=1970) The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) have announced that all major interactive whiteboard vendors have agreed to make their educational content available in the UK in a common file format (CFF), a move that will make IWB content much more accessible by allowing teachers to share content and resources … Read more

Interactive Whiteboard App

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Interview with Inside Education

A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Seán Delaney, the presenter of Inside Education, a radio programme on Dublin City FM. Seán came to visit the school I work in and we had a chat about how I use technology in the school, my ideas about how technology can enhance learning and a brief summary of my latest project, Mash.ie. Seán’s radio show is the only radio show about education in Ireland. Luckily for me, who doesn’t live in Dublin, Dublin City FM stream every programme over the Internet so anyone in the world can listen to the show. Unfortunately, when the programme was aired, I was in Rossport, Co. Mayo in my mother-in-law’s house where there is no Internet connection. Thankfully, Seán podcasts the programme on iTunes so when I got back to Carlow, I could download the show. You can tune into Inside Education every Sunday evening at 7:30pm on Dublin City FM or check out the podcasts on InsideEd.com

SESE Interactive

I spent some time looking at SESE Interactive, the latest piece of software from the educational software company, Learning Horizons.  Learning Horizons are hoping to capitalise on the success of some of their other software, including Sounds to Words.  They have brought in the expertise of practicing teachers to produce this software which aims to … Read more

SESE Interactive

I spent some time looking at SESE Interactive, the latest piece of software from the educational software company, Learning Horizons.  Learning Horizons are hoping to capitalise on the success of some of their other software, including Sounds to Words.  They have brought in the expertise of practicing teachers to produce this software which aims to … Read more

Becoming an eTeacher

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. … Read more

Teachnet Cloud Computing Podcast

Recently I was asked to take part in a podcast on cloud computing by Teachnet. This was my third contribution to Teachnet’s brilliant podcasts – and my first that had nothing to do with Interactive Whiteboards! I’ve been using cloud computing for longer than the term has been bandied about but I am certainly no expert on it. I was intrigued by the other two speakers on the programme who had some really interesting things to say about the concept. I mentioned two cloud computing concepts in the podcast – Google Apps, which I use for staff communication, and Scriblink, http://www.scriblink.com/, which I’m beginning to look at for sharing virtual whiteboards. Anyway, take a listen to the discussion and, as always, look out for the other fantastic podcasts from Teachnet on http://blog.teachnet.ie

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