Why Blogging is Best – a digiteach article
I was asked to write a follow-up article about my workshop at this year’s CESI (Computers in Education Society of Ireland) conference. It’s entitled “Why Blogging is Best” and below is the text from it. The slides are available as a slidecast from the CESI site. The CESI conference is one of my favourite events […]
Pension Levy Cuts and Strike Action
I’ve stayed fairly quiet on the whole pension levy on Anseo.net. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, there have been a lot of IWBs to review and secondly, I really thought the government would have fallen by now. Sadly, it hasn’t and now we’re being balloted for industrial action. To be honest, […]
You're Going to Hate Me…
This evening, sometime between 7pm and 9pm, I gave a talk entitled: “You’re Going to Hate Me!” It’s a two minute talk about how I intend to spend the €5,000 per classroom my school received from Batt O’Keefe and how any school that wasn’t on the list could be entitled to the grant. In case […]
ICT procurement frameworks from the NCTE
Thanks to Batt O’Keefe’s decision to award €2.2 million to some primary schools for ICT equipment, the NCTE have decided to introduce some frameworks in order to spend all that money. There are guidelines on projectors prices, laptop prices, printer prices and visualiser prices…but no mention of Interactive Whiteboards at all. So, the question on […]
Talks have broken down
So, I heard today that talks have broken down between our social partners and our “leader” Brian Cohen…. What will happen next? Let me predict the worse..
And the IPPN Cheapest Interactive Whiteboard Solution is…
Good news for Anseo.net’s sponsors, SmartBoard – one of their resellers beat all the competition to become the cheapest fully-featured Interactive Whiteboard Solution. Liosdoire Computers, based in Co. Kerry, are a very well-known company, which opened in 2002. Lisdoire Computers – the cheapest IWBs in Ireland They have been doing the education exhibition circuit since […]
Irish Teachers' Attitude to Web 2.0
I recently surveyed 100 teachers – I wanted more but I think there’s a limit on Survey Monkey‘s basic package – about their views on Internet applications. I wanted to check what web 2.0 applications they used and which ones they trusted. I wanted to see if my suspicions – that Irish primary teachers were […]
Would you prefer to lose your job or take a paycut?
Hi everyone! I don’t know if anyone has attended their union meetings this week but the word “strike” is being bandied around, to me it seems like if the government cut our pay or our pensions, then the union will put a ballot to the members and if we agree to strike, that is it!
paycuts…boo hiss
The only way I will take a paycut is if every person in this country takes one too! In particular all the fat cats…Was reading today in the papers that artists are exempt from any form of tax? hilarious as we are the only country in the whole world to have this craziness..Also read that […]
Calls to scrap teacher email system… did you even know it existed?
A couple of years ago when Ireland had money, the government, through the National Centre for Technology in Education, the NCTE, decided to pay a company to develop an email system for teachers. Every teacher was going to be given an email address @scoilnet.ie I was one of the teachers chosen to pilot it in […]