by admin | Jun 30, 2012 | Technology, Video
Some time ago Catherine Cronin, academic coordinator of online IT programmes and lecturer in IT at the National University of Ireland, Galway, asked me to take part in a video showcasing technology being used in Irish classrooms. Along with a number of other Irish...
by admin | Jun 10, 2012 | Technology, Video
I attended a workshop given by John Heffernan at the recent ICT in Education Conference in the Thurles campus of LIT on “A Brief History of the Near Future” where he looked at predictions of what the technologies of the future might look like. One of the...
by admin | Jun 10, 2012 | Teaching News, Technology
The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) has announced that the service has been “integrated” with the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST). In a short statement on its website the NCTE explains: “With effect from 1st...
by admin | May 24, 2012 | Technology
Mentimeter is a website used for polling your pupils or for getting feedback from them. I found out about this website from Richard Byrne of the Free Tech 4 Teachers website. It’s a really easy audience response website and I’ve used this site with my 1st...
by admin | May 20, 2012 | Technology
I gave a presentation/workshop at the ICT in Education Conference in LIT Tipperary in Thurles yesterday on the topic of QR Codes in the classroom. The aim of the presentation/workshop was to show how easy it is to create QR Codes and how they can be used in the...
by admin | May 6, 2012 | Teaching News, Technology
The 8th ICT in Education Conference will take place in LIT (Limerick Institute of Technology) Tipperary on Saturday May 19th. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Learning Spaces” and it aims to take a broad view at both physical and virtual...
