We went along to the ICT in Education conference at L.I.T. Thurles on Saturday and it was as inspiring as always. For four years now we’ve been attending and still it manages to surprise and delight.

Key to that this year was the choice of Ira Socol and Pam Moran as keynote speakers. Although, to call them keynote speakers is to disguise what made their presentation so good – in reality they led a very interactive ’round-table’ discussion on Learning Spaces, with ‘provocateurs’ Conor Galvin and Bernie Goldbach prodding the audience into participation.

It was a tremendous start to the day and one which kept a positive energy flowing throughout. We were lucky enough to not have our talk until the afternoon and so could relax and enjoy a number of other presentations before-hand.

And when I say ‘we’ I mean Esther Lambe and myself. Esther is the principal at St. Kierans N.S. in Broughall, Co. Offaly and I can’t thank her enough for her wonderful presentation on MissionV and what the programme meant to her students. I only gave a brief introduction and then handed it over to Esther. And she was brilliant, emphasizing a number of key points that underline what makes game-based learning in virtual worlds so different.

Esther has kindly sent me her slides so here is her presentation below –