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At the CESI conference, I gave a workshop to show teachers how to make a simple app for a Smartphone. One question I was asked ...

This flyer and leaflet were emailed out to all schools in Ireland today, for the attention of the Special Education Needs Coordinators, with the hope that they will be passed on to all interested staff and printed off for display on the staffroom noti... ...

It is a minute past midnight on February 29th 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. The leap day is well on its way elsewhere as the day began in Tonga several hours ago.

Do not put in the www before the feb29th.net or you will sent to an incorrect page on the site. [...] ...

In the last year, school principals have been put under unrelenting pressure on top of their own position in their school. A raft of circulars, changes and cuts have hit the primary and secondary ...

I just got my belated birthday present today in the form of the XBMC Eden Release Candidate 1. It literally gets better everyday The source code on this media centre is updated on a nightly basis. It even works on Rasberry Pi – check out the video in my Vodpod collection in the [...] ...

Gifted Education Awareness Week 2012 (GEAW2012) kicks off today.  The first event is a chat on Twitter at 8.30pm. Irish teachers who use twitter have been getting together every Monday evening at this time for  quite some time now to discuss ... ...

Anseo.net have teamed up with IMEX to offer teachers the opportunity to get a free MOBI Interactive Pad.  Mobi View does everything a fixed interactive whiteboard does at a fraction of the cost. It is also handheld so ...

The Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) hosted their annual conference in Portlaoise this weekend. It was the biggest one yet with far more attendees than I’ve ever seen before. For those of you who haven’t attended a CESI ...

This guest post has been written by Simon Sharkey from the company Bryan S. Ryan, a specialist in print and business technology. The company recently exhibited at the IPPN conference and spoke with us about ...

If you're visiting the blog while attending CESI Meet in Portlaoise this evening then you're very welcome. If you're not, please join the discussion anyway! This evening in Portlaoise I am giving a mini  presentation (7 minutes)&nbs... ...