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One of the best Teachmeets ever, and that is saying something in this past year, as Ireland really gets the hang of it, with TMs popping up in all corners. Bianca Ní Ghrógain, at the behest of the Head of Education, Seamie O’Neill, sort of “asked” her buddies in CESI, and the Froebel College in…

The annual ICT in Education Conference conference in Tipperary on Saturday April 25th will, as usual, be preceded by a TeachMeet on the Friday night – but in line with the Conference theme of “Make, Bake, Take”, the TM this year has morphed into a Make Meet. Those of you who saw the students who’d worked…

Two weeks, almost three, have passed through the calendar since the event that was #cesicon 2015, Beyond the Horizon, Technology in Education. The Twitter conversation on #edchatie tonight reminded me to post my takeaways from *that* weekend in Galway. The prompt was my own post in reply to the question – Current Trends in Irish…

I saw Powtoon being used to make tiny instructional cartoons for students and decided to have a go – here is my (lowest-common-denominator, unedited, terribly badly recorded) Powtoon to explain what a TeachMeet is in 30 seconds. http://www.powtoon.com/embed/bAJ83QH8S1N/

Thanks to Sarah-Jayne, Pam, Leanne, Richard, John and Nigel for adding their thoughts on BETT2015 to my own: Q1 What was your favourite BETT takeaway or Eureka moment? Pam O’Brien – I loved Ian Stuart’s sharing of the multi-age second level classrooms on the Isle of Islay.  I also really enjoyed Ken Robinson but found…

I am delighted that the annual Teachmeet on the eve of #cesicon is being hosted by Ciara Brennan and Kathleen Byrne of @Teachmeet_East, #tmeast. Kathleen and Ciara have had three packed-house TMs in the East to date, and as I type this post Kathleen is preparing for the first ever Principalmeet at the #IPPN2015 conference…

Literally dropping these here in case my name gets pulled from the hat at the BETT 2015 Teachmeet next Friday evening in London…I want to tell a short story about allowing students to choose their format of presenting their work and ideas, rather then having it chosen for them by the teacher – and how…

Summary of last Thursday evening’s #ttq10 – Thursday Tech Question at 10pm (17/11/2014) – conversation. (Any omissions are mine – I know I lost a tweet from @donenda with the name of the film that inspired him!) To mark Thanksgiving, we answered a question with a ‘thanks giving’ answer – who would you thank for…

It makes me very happy to see Teachmeet tentacles spreading across the country, and the latest TM was in Letterkenny last evening. There was never a doubt once word for out that Fiona Farry, Maggie Greene, Susan McCarthy, and Finnbar Boyle were on the case that TM Donegal would be a cracker. The LYIT venue,…