…and very belated thanks to those who made the recent Froebel Teachmeet in Maynooth such a celebration of teaching and learning. It was the Head of the Froebel Dept, Prof Marie McLoughlin who reminded us that April 21st was Friedrich Froebel’s birthday.
(I suspect that Herr Froebel’d have approved greatly of the playful elements that pervade a TeachMeet; would he have called it kindergarten CDP?)
This was the second outing of #tmFroebel, organised and hosted by the Dissolving Boundaries elective students at the behest of Head of Education, Seamie O’Neill. And it the first without Bianca Ní Ghrógáin RIP, who’d hosted such a memorable evening last year. This made is tough going on her colleagues and friends in the Freobel and CESI worlds, but guess what – between the lot of us, it turned out to be a pretty ‘biancafied’ adventure.
(The whole story can be follow as it unfolds on the #tmFroebel Twitter Timeline.)
https://twitter.com/sjayc/status/723203057262182400
From the opening session – the monster crayon challenge pictured above (but you really did have to be there) led by Mary Jo Bell, to the final video presented by second level student Karl Reddy which moved the attendees standing ovation – it was non-stop action and reaction. The weird mix of an odd 100 trainee teachers, teachers of teachers, retired teachers, researching teachers, and even a few ‘real’ teachers (boom boom!) makes for a lot of valuable cross pollination.
Karl Reddy and his crew got a standing ovation @Bodengaa #tmfroebel pic.twitter.com/NqXTg7p0Q5
— seamie (@seaoneill) April 21, 2016
(To our three guests from Kolkata – Chaitah, Madhhumita and Dalia – please note we can do decorum when we have to, but we love the odd evening of total anarchy.)
GRMA to all who stepped up, rowed in, joined in, and made the evening. You know who you are – but in case of doubt…let the credits roll…
Presenters
https://twitter.com/oconghc2/status/723225717031481344
https://t.co/WQdjTz0dj9 suíomh iontach chun gramadach na gaeilge a chleachtadh agus a fhoghlaim #tmfroebel
— Fiona Nic F (@fiona_nic) April 21, 2016
Edmodo, Skype, Storybird, Padlet & Kahoot. Tools that @LeanneEdu uses in her class #tmfroebel
— Susan Nic Réamoinn (@snicreamoinn) April 21, 2016
Just back from my 1st ever teachmeet! Such a great evening!! #tmfroebel
— Caroline Byrne (@ByrneCaroline) April 21, 2016
Tech Support – John Hegarty & Rob Quinn
Tweeters corner – Susan Nic Réamoinn & Sarah Jayne Carey
Admin – Rebecca Boyle & Vera Timmins
Student organisers – Daniel Brady, Donnacha Crosbie, Killian Dunne, Niall Kelly, Pauline Lucey, Siobhan McCloskey, Catherine McGee, Kerri McGuirk, Patrick Mount, Sean Naughton, Jen Quinn, Valerie Smith.
The absolute crack pic.twitter.com/22F2pkAWuW
— Killian Dunne (@MrKillianDunne) April 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/magsamond/status/724999563665350658
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