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  • that was the very special #cesicon weekend that was

    Thanks to very many people, the #cesicon weekend (Feb 26/27/28) was very special this year. The Friday night TeachMeet, co-hosted by Sarah Jayne Carey and Nigel Lane, was really good fun, and set the tone for the weekend – share and care. Details of all speakers and helpers are at the Irish TeachMeet Wiki, on…

  • get thee to a #cesicon

    Time to get ready for the annual CESI conference next week – make sure you’re registered, and have claimed the cheap car park space on offer! Bookended with keynotes from Prof Mark Brown of DCU and a very special return visit from the magical Tim Rylands & Sarah Neild, it will be a cracking day.…

  • #BETT2016 – bots and beats

    This BETT was all about bot and beats. In view, robots everywhere – OhBot, BeeBot, BlueBot, Ozobots, Spheros and oh, oh, oh, the new love of my life, BB8. I met BB8 at Mark Anderson‘s workshop, and thanks to @aramski having the app ready to go on his phone, got to play immediately with it.…

  • a tale of two teachmeets

    In January I attended two TeachMeets within one week. A “large” BETT TeachMeet in London, and a “little” TeachMeet in Kildare Education Centre. Both had the three essential TM elements – TeachMeet, TeachEat, TeachTweet – we come to expect, just on vastly different scales. This got me thinking. Is it fair to compare? It is…

  • Bye Bye 2015 – a year of two halves

    Bye bye 2015. A year of two halves. Before and after June 6th.

  • Are you ‘calendar ready’ for #cesicon 2016?

    If you are an educator with an interest, or skills to share, in the ‘ed tech’ area, mark the calendar now. The dates and venues have been set for the 2016 annual CESI weekend of Teachmeet and Conference. Dublin, last weekend in February. Don’t be anywhere else. Since 1973 it has been easily among the best…

  • draft – words fail me, so I’m borrowing them

    Bianca Ní Ghrógáin. RIP. 06/06/15. Bianca Ní Ghrógáin, @bnighrogain is now trending in Ireland http://t.co/lnn4sEU0a6 — Trendsmap Ireland (@TrendsIreland) June 8, 2015 I’m the ying to the yang, the primary to the secondary and the Freddie to the Queen @magsamond #edchatie #PowerUpIrl pic.twitter.com/em6IasR7QG — Bianca Ní Ghrógáin (@bnighrogain) March 22, 2015 Really proud of the…

  • Cavan Institute hosts first Cavan Teachmeet

    Cavan Institute proved to be a great venue for the first Teachmeet to be held in Cavan. All details of presenters, sponsors, pictures are now stored online at https://irishteachmeet.wikispaces.com/Teachmeet+Cavan The generosity of volunteer Teachmeet presenters showed itself again – we had a lovely variety of classroom stories, useful resources, action and fun. Some of the classroom…

  • Ada Lovelace Day 2015

    Take a look at @magsamond’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/magsamond/status/654068707149393920?s=09 When Leigh Graves Wolf prompted us all to post for Ada Day, this moment came to mind for me. (Took me ages to find the pic, which makes me a day late in some times zones.) Bianca, Susan, Amy, Pam and Caitlin doing the 20 sheet tower challenge…

  • Scratch 2015 4/3 – Epilogue

    [Warning notes to future self – (1) if doing an interview to a HD camera – get thee to a make-up room first and (2) spend more time practising the baseball pitch]. That said, the interviewer/producer and the camera man were two of the loveliest people one could meet. Thank you both.