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Cracking the code… my tuppence worth
Last Thursday night in the driving rain, I was returning to Cavan from Dublin on the bus with my friend Cara. [We’d struggled our way though a fantastic Python class, clinging (well, me at least) to the very edges of the ZPD precipice, and felt a great sense of achievement in any small advance in…
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Tech Girls Storytime – speaking to the converters.
Thanks to Stephen Howell, a lot of very bright women, and a sprinkling of equally bright gentlemen, had a really positive “céilí” last Thursday evening in Microsoft, Dublin, to honour a visit by Kim Wilkens (@kimxtom). (Kim, ‘céilí’ is Irish for a gathering where people gather and share stories, song, dance, food and drink. Mmm……
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Robot wows!
No apologies for a blatant “2 for 1” cross posting here – the story of our Robot challenge at CoderDojo in Cavan yesterday. I heard a wonderful storyteller, I watched a wonderful teacher, and I learned to programme a robot (with my team of four creative young gentlemen from Kildallon, thanks guys!). Have ordered my…
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Is the weekend becoming the new week?
Just watching the calendar, and Twitter timelines / hashtags, in the past two weekends had made me wonder – is the weekend becoming the new week? (in Irish Education at least). Last weekend, Oct 3rd, kicked off Friday night with a TeachMeet in St Pats College Drumcondra. It was the first TM hosted by the…
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On course for #dojocon2014…
Dumping my slides here in preparation for the afternoon workshop at #dojocon2014 tomorrow in Sligo. Just in case… [slideshare id=39858415&w=476&h=400&sc=no]
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If the Internet went on Fire…
I often ask this question at TeachMeets – if the internet went on fire, what one resource would you save. As a full time science teacher, my own answer used to be PhET – especially the Circuit Construction Kit. Some of my physics disapprove strongly, but over the past few years it has helped me…
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Storming the Castle at ExcitEd 2014
One of the best bits about aprés-meet is reading what others’ reflective blogs post, and (increasingly) fermenting and reporting my own musings. Takes me longer to think when I have to write / edit / delete / double check / rewrite the mental scribbles and jots that keep popping into the mind in the aftermath…
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#ictedu makes me happy – and here’s the evidence
#ictedu makes me happy – and here's the evidence.
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#ictedu makes me happy – and here’s the evidence
It may be corny, but this “Happy” vid put together by the Youth Media Team last Saturday in Thurles catches to mood of the “Global Voices” weekend. We had three generations of students and teachers learning – and dancing – together. Reflective keynotes from @evelynoconor (with added cake) and @heloukee (loved that Forced Perspective project)…
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ISTA Conference Musings – with apologies to the Main Muser!
It just took one view of the striking hot pink livery of the Folens stand to make me wonder – out loud as it happens – what Ian McCullough would make of it all. I proudly admit to being a fangirl of Ian’s column, turning first to the latest episode of his ‘musings’ each time…