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Why Blogging is Best – a digiteach article

9th August 201728th March 2009 by simon

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 … Read more

Pension Levy Cuts and Strike Action

28th February 2009 by oldposts

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, I don’t know what we should do.

You're Going to Hate Me…

13th February 2009 by oldposts

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 I make a balls of the presentation or I run out of time, below is the text of what I intended to say. I have scheduled this post to go up on Anseo.net at 9pm.

ICT procurement frameworks from the NCTE

12th February 2009 by oldposts

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 my lips is, naturally, why?

Talks have broken down

3rd February 2009 by oldposts

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…

30th January 2009 by oldposts

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 I became aware of Interactive Whiteboards and their salesmanship and service is individual and, as far as I could see, very competitive.

Irish Teachers' Attitude to Web 2.0

20th January 2009 by oldposts

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 scared to post their opinions on a public forum – were true. Effectively, they were less true than I thought.

Would you prefer to lose your job or take a paycut?

18th January 2009 by oldposts

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

11th January 2009 by oldposts

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 … Read more

Calls to scrap teacher email system… did you even know it existed?

31st December 2008 by simon

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 my school so I went for the training. There was nothing particularly wrong with the system apart from the fact that it wasn’t very good.

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