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The annual ICT in Education Conference conference in Tipperary on Saturday April 25th will, as usual, be preceded by a TeachMeet on the Friday night – but in line with the Conference theme of “Make, Bake, Take”, the TM this year has morphed into a Make Meet. Those of you who saw the students who’d worked…

Two weeks, almost three, have passed through the calendar since the event that was #cesicon 2015, Beyond the Horizon, Technology in Education. The Twitter conversation on #edchatie tonight reminded me to post my takeaways from *that* weekend in Galway. The prompt was my own post in reply to the question – Current Trends in Irish…

I saw Powtoon being used to make tiny instructional cartoons for students and decided to have a go – here is my (lowest-common-denominator, unedited, terribly badly recorded) Powtoon to explain what a TeachMeet is in 30 seconds. http://www.powtoon.com/embed/bAJ83QH8S1N/

Thanks to Sarah-Jayne, Pam, Leanne, Richard, John and Nigel for adding their thoughts on BETT2015 to my own: Q1 What was your favourite BETT takeaway or Eureka moment? Pam O’Brien – I loved Ian Stuart’s sharing of the multi-age second level classrooms on the Isle of Islay.  I also really enjoyed Ken Robinson but found…

I am delighted that the annual Teachmeet on the eve of #cesicon is being hosted by Ciara Brennan and Kathleen Byrne of @Teachmeet_East, #tmeast. Kathleen and Ciara have had three packed-house TMs in the East to date, and as I type this post Kathleen is preparing for the first ever Principalmeet at the #IPPN2015 conference…

Literally dropping these here in case my name gets pulled from the hat at the BETT 2015 Teachmeet next Friday evening in London…I want to tell a short story about allowing students to choose their format of presenting their work and ideas, rather then having it chosen for them by the teacher – and how…

Summary of last Thursday evening’s #ttq10 – Thursday Tech Question at 10pm (17/11/2014) – conversation. (Any omissions are mine – I know I lost a tweet from @donenda with the name of the film that inspired him!) To mark Thanksgiving, we answered a question with a ‘thanks giving’ answer – who would you thank for…

It makes me very happy to see Teachmeet tentacles spreading across the country, and the latest TM was in Letterkenny last evening. There was never a doubt once word for out that Fiona Farry, Maggie Greene, Susan McCarthy, and Finnbar Boyle were on the case that TM Donegal would be a cracker. The LYIT venue,…

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…