The annual CESI conference will be taking place in Galway this weekend. We’re looking forward to our 13th conference and all it has to offer. This will be the 42nd CESI conference and the theme for this year’s conference is Beyond the Horizon – Technology in Education. CESI always manage to get at least one huge … Read more
After the great success of PrincipalMeet at the IPPN conference, Teachmeet Ireland have been invited to host CESI’s annual Friday night pre-conference Teachmeet. This is the first year that the Teachmeet has been outsourced and, given the success of Kathleen Byrne and Ciara Brennan’s Teachmeets around the country, it looks like participants are going to be in … Read more
The annual IPPN conference, the largest educational conference in Ireland, where over 1,200 principals gathered for two days of inspiring talks and networking, was another success. This was my 7th conference and it is a must for any principal. Every year, I review my two days in Citywest, and make comments on my experiences. The theme … Read more
Kathleen Byrne is organising the first national Principalmeet at the IPPN conference this year. It’s happening this Friday at 1pm and it’s going to be one of the hidden highlights of the conference. Anyone who attends this meet will come away with a vast array of ideas from their colleagues. In this guest post, Kathleen … Read more
Every year, we preview the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) conference and its Teacher Expo. This year, it is open to teachers on Thursday evening if their school has a delegate at the conference. As well as this, the IPPN have embraced Twitter fully and there is a hashtag #IPPN15 that can be followed. There are over … Read more
With only 6 weeks to go until the annual CESI Conference, (hashtag is #cesicon), CESI have released a “taster” of the programme for February 28th. The big pull for the conference is the quality of keynote speaker that CESI manage to get! This year is no different with John Davitt and Tim Rylands & Sarah Nield. As always, there’s a vast … Read more
2014 will be remembered more in secondary schools than in primary schools due to their teachers taking strike action against the reforms set by the Department of Education. It appears it will also be the story of 2015 for secondary schools, but what will primary schools remember most about 2014? In our annual review of the … Read more
The 8th annual ICT in Education Conference will take place in Thurles on the 19th May. Prefaced with the wonderful CESI-Meet on the evening of the 18th May, this event is one of the key conferences on the education calendar. This year’s theme is “Learning Spaces”, a timely and relevant theme as the whole question … Read more
With great pleasure and anticipation, it’s coming near to the time for the ICT in Education Conference in LIT Thurles. This year’s theme is Learning Spaces. Below is the information from the LIT’s web site. If learning is to be constant, Space, Time, Technology, Pedagogy, Curriculum must be the Variables. The eighth ICT in Education … Read more
The Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) hosted their annual conference in Portlaoise this weekend. It was the biggest one yet with far more attendees than I’ve ever seen before. For those of you who haven’t attended a CESI conference, it comes in two parts – the CESI Meet on the Friday evening and … Read more