If you’d like your school to be one of the 20 who join the MissionV virtual world project starting September 2011 then please apply now. MissionV is supported by the NCTE.
The upcoming Computing and Animation Adventure Camp at Tipperary Institute looks absolutely brilliant – Game Design and Development workshops, a visit to Microsoft’s Game Studios, Animation workshops and much more.
#IRLday is an initiative to get Ireland trending on Twitter during President Obama’s visit next week. The idea is to use the international attention to generate further interest and promote tourism.
David Quaid is taking it a step further by “asking our virtual and global audience to log in to the SecondLife sim of Dublin, http://secondlife.com/destination/dublin, and if possible, DCU will screen it live”
Sounds like a bit of fun so count is in!
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Scratch Day Ireland
The following notice is reprinted from the CESI (Computers in Education Society of Ireland) mailing list –
Hi CESI,
Just a reminder that (cesi list contributor) Clare Mcinerney of Lero ( www.scratch.ie) and myself [Stephen Howell] with the IT Tallaght Computing Dept. are once again hosting Scratch Day Ireland: http://day.scratch.mit.edu/event/353
Scratch is a fantastic free tool for teaching and learning the samsung galaxy s8 review logic behind programming. It is suitable from 5th/6th class primary and secondary school …
Last Saturday we attended the ICT in Education conference in Tipperary Institute, Thurles. We were there to talk about ‘Game-based Learning in Virtual Worlds‘ and to meet with pioneering educators.
The day got off to a wonderful start with Christian Payne speaking on ‘Mobile Story Making’, ostensibly, but really regaling us with tales of life lived to the full. Entertaining, affecting, inspiring.
ICT in Education 2011 : Christian Payne : Mobile Story Making from StudioSix @ Tipperary Institute on …
Chemistry professor professor James Hinton finds immersive 3D visualization to be an invaluable teaching tool – “It’s really important that students be able to touch, feel, see, embrace… these proteins.”
“Kids are visual people nowadays; they like to see things,” says Hinton. “So I began to look around for ways of actually visualizing three-dimensional structures, and I came upon this idea of, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if we had immersive techniques that would allow us to …
We were very pleased to be asked to take part in an Australian ICT in Education Podcast Series called the “The Ed Tech Crew“, hosted by Darrel Branson (The ICT Guy) and Tony Richards from itmadesimple.com. We were also joined by Fred Boss, CPD Project Manager of the NCTE who gave a great account of the current state of ICT use in Irish Schools. Listen here.
If you’re interested in the use of technology in education there is a wealth of fantastic podcasts on the Ed Tech Crew’s site.
We’ve attended the ICT in Education conference in Tipperary Institute for the last 3 years and hugely look forward to returning to the Thurles venue on Saturday May 14th. This year we’ll be talking about Game-based Learning in Virtual Worlds and what we’re doing at MissionV to bring those ideas to 20 schools in Ireland this year.
Year after year this is one of the very best conferences we go to. And with the line-up of speakers it looks like …
Vanessa Camilleri is Assistant Lecturer at University of Malta and Distance Tutor at STC Malta. On her staff page she explains –
“My primary area of research lies mostly in the use of Virtual Worlds (WWs) and Social Networking (SN) for Education. There have been many discussions about pedagogical frameworks, interaction processes, use of technology for teaching and learning, but I would like to bring all of these together under one single virtual world and explore ways and means of …
On Thursday 19th May 2011 Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is hosting the Irish Symposium on Game-Based Learning.
“Game-Based Learning (GBL) is a fascinating medium which has the potential to increase both motivation and learning on the part of the learners. GBL has captured the interest of researchers, and some educators have already started to embrace this technology. Although there is a solid body of evidence on the educational effectiveness of GBL, it still needs to gain more recognition amongst Irish teachers, …
