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My challenge for CESImeet participants tonight in Galway is to complete a #cesi40 Tarsia Triangle. Each team gets 16 small triangles, on which clues and answers have been printed. Joining the clues to the correct answer results in one big triangle…

Last Friday night, a motley crew of educators turned up at the Crowne Plaza Dundalk for the first CESImeet in the North East of the country. I counted counties and got Wicklow, Donegal, Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, Tipperary, Meath, Louth, Mayo and Lao…

Sunday seems to be the day for adults in the Coderdojo world to educate each other! Last Sunday Dr James Crook of Dublin Coderdojo gathered a tribe composed of Coderdojo mentors (including founder James Whelton), a bunch of teachers who use techno…

Whoever said you should never meet your heroes was not working in Education. Earlier in the summer, at the Science and Mathematics Education Conference (SMEC) conference in DCU, the highlight of the day for me was a double whammy – a lecture by Pa…

http://whatsyourstory.trendmicro.com/internet-safety/pg/winners-2011 Which side of the line are you on? This is the question posed by the students who made the winning entry to the “What’s Your Story” 2011 competition. This competition asks studen…

I am a self-confessed Cirque du Soleil nut (that’s where my Lottery win will end up I reckon) and each time I see a show I wish I could take every science student with me. It should be a mandatory activity for everyone studying physics at least. T…

The last few weeks have brought me three great learning chances, mostly at the weekend or late evenings. Mostly on Sundays as it happens. So long sofa. 1st up is (was) Coder Dojang, and yes, if you follow that link you will find it now leads to Ul…

The Computers in Education Society of Ireland 2012 Conference is now over and here we go again – how to take it in all you learn and remember all you learn and remember to use all you learn and remember to reflect on all you learn…and then it’s …

Some time ago I watched my colleague and friend Adrienne Webb demonstrate how she uses her LiveScribe pen in her teaching of mathematics. I was intrigued, but sort of let it go into the “must try that sometime” net. Recently we took up the convers…

This is one of the most creative things I have seen in a while, and it has immediately sparked some ideas for lessons for multimedia class. It is clever, neat & tidy, and most of all it is thought provoking (very useful for a teacher’s collection)…