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  • Carrying @cesitweets to Newcastle.

    It was a treat to travel to Newcastle with CESI’s Adrienne Webb and Leanne Lynch to take part in Talk On the Tyne, and attend Tech On the Tyne in early June. Both events are organised each year by Martin Bailey of Animate to Educate. Martin is the absolute king of hospitality, and everything was organised…

  • #tmScratchBDX en route

    The last TeachMeet at a Scratch Conference was a cracker, curated and MC’d by the inimitable Drew Buddie in Der Waag building as part of the unconference for #Scratch2015AMD. Following on the warm reception TeachMeet got from Scratch conference goers, there will be a second TeachMeet Scratch as part of the Bordeaux unconference in July.…

  • #tmFroebel – a two way sharing stream

    TeachMeet Froebel took place last evening in the gorgeous new Education Building at Maynooth University. The best thing about TeachMeet Froebel is the two way stream between student teachers and practicing teachers – both sets learn from each other. Great work by final year student Laura O’Donoghue and her team, they were a shining credit…

  • simple, random, human, social – four pillars of #TeachMeet

    I’m reading a lot of TeachMeet ‘stuff’ these days. This is one my favourite bits, and I’m keeping it close by to keep me grounded. I don’t receive the TESS magazine, so belated thanks to journalist Adi Bloom for putting this snippet from Ewan McIntosh into a ‘TeachMeet 10th birthday’ page last June, and thanks…

  • Hans Perrson and the chirping chicken

    About 10 years ago, I went to the Association of Science Educators annual conference with my colleague Majella Dempsey. (We were at the time working together as Development Officers with the Science Support Service. One of the topics we were focussing on was electricity – how to evolve the teaching of this concept, and deepen…

  • thank you very much for PhET, Carl Wieman and team

    Click to Run   Thank you very much, Carl Wieman, for all the PhET materials designed and shared over the years. It has made a big difference to teaching and learning difficult-to-understand science concepts. Top of my list, often declared in my “if the internet goes on fire what will I save?” list, is the…

  • So how do I know I’m at a #TeachMeet ?

    “So how do I know I am at a TeachMeet?” Look around the room…

  • Coderdojo MentorMeetUp at Bank of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin.

    Coderdojo Ireland’s Mentor MeetUp series around the country continued yesterday with a Dublin meet. Thanks to Bank of Ireland for venue and refreshments, and Nuala and Philip of Coderdojo Foundation for organising the logistics. It was a terrific MentorMeetUp in Trinity College, with a definite TeachMeet flavour. The group in attendance was the perfect mixture…

  • It’s the Late Late #MathsMeetIE Show

    All details from the Friday night #MathsMeetIE version of the Late Late Show are now up on the Irish TeachMeets wiki, http://irishteachmeet.wikispaces.com/MathsMeetIE

  • The transit of #cesicon 2017

    It wouldn’t be March is we didn’t have the annual transit of planet #cesicon, and its satellite #tmCESI, across the education horizon. Three weeks have passed since, so better jot down the happenings while the memory still holds! Friday night Thanks to the CESImeet team – Sarah Jayne Carey, Susan NicReamoinn, and Catriona Lane –…