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#borderbites is a hashtag inhabited by group of friends. The ‘bites’ bit refers to the fact we love to eat together, and share experiences of good food. The ‘border’ bit is a loose geographic reference – Cavan-Monaghan, Cavan-Meath, Cavan-Leitrim. We are (usually) @magsamond, @caramcdermott, @cfoxcavan, @maudmonaghan, @doogarry and @foodborn, joined whenever possible by @tierneymajella and…

Reflection on our group’s work from Tuesday afternoon to Thursday midday >>> Adam, Derrick, Gabe, Gabrielle, Joaquin, Lesley, Mags, ans Simona – USA, Italy, Ireland and Mexico. We’ve been looking at tech tools for teaching, learning and assessment, and discussing the possibilities of integration them in the cooperative learning class environment. Emphasis on the relationships…

Cooperative Learning principles – using tech – can both happen together? (Disclaimer of protest – this is an assignment set by evil teachers Adam and Derrick! In my world its almost bedtime. the other posts will be at https://padlet.com/aroubitchek/CoopTechSummer2016 ) We had a morning of trial and error trying out various apps – inc. Quizlet, Edpuzzle,…

I only got to experience some of the Digital MegaMeet in Dublin Castle, part of the 2016 Excited Digital Learning Festival. This day long TeachMeet style program of teacher led CPD was planned and … Source: #DigitalMegaMeet

I only got to experience some of the Digital MegaMeet in Dublin Castle, part of the 2016 Excited Digital Learning Festival. This day long TeachMeet style program of teacher led CPD was planned and curated by Frank Walsh of Excited and Adrienne Webb of CESI, with Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin as Bean a’ Tí . But what…

#inspirefest did *exactly* what it said on the tin: it inspired, and it celebrated. Thank you, Ann O’Dea. And the cracking team you lead. I admit I was a tad apprehensive at the thought of facing into sitting in an auditorium for what looked like, on checking the Inspirefest program, two long day of sequential…

Happy Summer Everyone A little reminder that we are exactly 100 days out from the start of Europe Code Week 2016 – October 15th – 23rd inc. A good time to get active on Social Media, to encourage people to get involved, to register our events : Retweet the message from our Twitter account this morning : https://twitter.com/CodeWeekEU/status/750592775486377984…

The RDS was full of kids showing the coding projects last Saturday. It was terrific to see them explain their work – warts and all – proudly to adults. Early in the day I had a sword fight with Tiernan from Cloghans Hill NS, – except my sword was a stick of broccoli connected to…

  06/06. Tweet B. #bnighrogain Bianca loved Twitter. She used it with her students, friends, teaching colleagues, in social campaigning among her own and the wider tribe. Bianca truly was the banlaoch that Mary Loftus named her, whose battle calls for diversity, inclusion and equality were very often made on Twitter. The @bnighrogain timeline (evolved from…

Thanks to Susan Nic Reamoinn, and the students formerly of @rangbianca, for the invitation to visit their first KidsMeet sessions on Wednesday morning. These two KidsMeets were organised, hosted and presented by students for their fellows in the 4th, 5th, and 6th classes across the school. The entire morning was modelled on a classic TeachMeet,…