Posted in Primary, Technology on Oct 10th, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Niamh Dunphy, the person behind the hugely popular Irish Primary Teacher, blog, Facebook page and Instagram account.
Among the topics we discuss in this first part of our interview are:
- Why she set up the blog, and pages on Instagram and Facebook
- Her positive and negative experiences of teaching in England
- What she knows about her audience
- Dividing content among various social media platforms
- How teachers support each other through social media
- What posts are most popular
- Dealing with trolls and negative comments
- How much time it takes
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Posted in Conferences, Technology on Apr 4th, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I speak to two keynote speakers from the 2018 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland, Elizabeth Oldham and Richard Millwood, both from Trinity College Dublin. They discuss the past, present and future of the organisation and among other topics Richard discusses how computational thinking relates to teaching the visual arts.
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Posted in Conferences, Technology on Mar 28th, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme my guest is Joanna Norton, a lecturer at the University of the Arts in London. In the course of our interview she told me about the App she developed called Keywords Biology.
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Posted in Conferences, Technology, Leadership on Mar 21st, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
This week I speak to the Chairperson of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI), Adrienne Webb, about the new Leaving Certificate course in Computer Science and other matters.
During the interview we discuss how CESI has been working with various players, such as the NCCA and the PDST, to facilitate the smooth introduction of the syllabus; Adrienne tells us about how she became interested in technology; she discusses resources for teaching computer science; and she describes her approach to working with technology in school.
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Posted in Conferences, Technology on Mar 14th, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to lecturer in mathematics and programming at LIT (Tipperary Campus), Pamela O'Brien. Among the topics we discuss are:
- Her workshop on “Breakoutedu”
- Her job at LIT – Tipperary Campus
- The ICT in Education Conference
- The difference between coding and computer science
- Transitions she made from working in insurance to lecturing and from mathematics to computer science
- How teachers can become more involved in coding
- Who inspires her
- Why she likes EDCHATIE
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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to three people who presented workshops at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. They were Claire Dunne from the Marino Institute of Education, Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and Anne Burke from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Among the websites mentioned on the programme were:
Children's Literature Association of Ireland
http://bookcentre.ca/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586750-bully
Kidblog software
Animoto
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Posted in Language Education, Technology on Oct 5th, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week's guest is Professor Jackie Marsh from the University of Sheffield's School of Education. I interviewed her when she was in Dublin as a keynote speaker at the 40th annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. In the course of the interview Jackie Marsh referred to some online resources and books including:
National Literacy Trust
Common Sense Media
Technology and Play
Aurasma
Anne Hass Dyson
The Meaning Makers by Gordon Wells
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Posted in Conferences, Third Level, Technology on May 11th, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Professor Leigh Graves Wolf who is the assistant director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology at Michigan State University. She was in Ireland to deliver a keynote address at the 2016 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) in February last.
Among the sites mentioned on the programme are make.msu.edu and edutech.msu.edu.
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Posted in Conferences, Technology on May 4th, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Conor Galvin from the School of Education in University College Dublin. I met him at the annual Computers in Education Society of Ireland, CESI conference 2016, when he spoke about his presentation and about the role of technology in education more generally.
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