Now commonly known as the Cluster Games, principals have spent the last week scrapping for hours to make up SET clusters of 25 hours. Mostly justifying their disregard of their colleagues because they think they need to save a teacher from the dreaded safeguard of the panel, I think principals have lost their principles. When … Read more
Most people agree that despite the Department of Education claiming more SET hours (formerly Learning Support) are being given to children, it feels like we’re getting less. I decided to get the facts. The following are the notes I referenced in the podcast. According to the National Principals’ Forum, 61% of principals say there are … Read more
I decided to try out expanding the podcast out to video this week so you can now find it on all the podcasting channels as well as YouTube. I’d really like your feedback on this because if it isn’t any good, I may as well drop it! It takes twice as long to produce a … Read more
It’s week 5 of Rozz’s weekly podcast. Will she mention the Teaching Council this time? Tune in to find out!
Week 4 of Rozz’s podcast for anseo. She speaks about that four letter word again, CEPP. She also speaks about the 2 billion euro the government have announced for school buildings, a newly appointed principal symposium in Wexford Education Centre and the rather naughty lack of teachers in the ICT in education supplement in Sunday Business Post.
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This week Rozz speaks about the latest news with the Teaching Council and the fiasco of their election mix up and the potential downfall of CEPP. She also looks at ways of protecting your iPad and finally talks about how she broke her MacBook!
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In this podcast, Rozz speaks to:
Sabine McKenna about survey monkey, Nigel Lane and his blog-irishteachers.tumblr.org, Helen Bullock from anseo-a-mhuinteoir with her favourite app-teacherpal and finally, Anne Mc Murrow and her use of I can animate with her students.
Also, a live 3 minute recording of Simon Lewis, speaking about the app he developed for his school, Carlow Educate Together.
Another brilliant night, well done to the organisers of CESI meet and here’s to the next one!
Until, next week, I’ll let you go!
Rozz
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Rozz takes over the podcasting on Anseo.net with her first full podcast. In her first episode, she discusses CEPP, the controversial new proposal from the Teaching Council that will flip the role of the principal to being the one who probates Newly Qualified Teachers. She also discusses the upcoming CESI conference. Finally, she bigs up our new site, Mash.ie. Have a listen now!
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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!
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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.
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