- BETT 2012
- 21 Dec 2011
- Dedicated to showcasing the best in UK and international educational technology products, resources and best practice, BETT has enabled thousands of practitioners to enhance their knowledge of learning through technology.
- Useful Weblinks - February 2012
- 6 Feb 2012
- Details include MakeUseOf Cheat Sheets, Coding for our lives article, Tools for Teachers, Choices 2012 Expo and TES Christmas resources.
- Competition News - February 2012
- 8 Feb 2012
- Details include the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2012, U4Energy, Euroscola, John Hooper Medal for Statistics 2012 Competition, the Learning Without Frontiers Awards, LASCO Maths Challenge 2012, Texaco Children's Art Competition and Future Creators.
- Useful Weblinks - January 2012
- 2 Jan 2012
- Details include MakeUseOf Cheat Sheets, Coding for our lives article, Tools for Teachers, Choices 2012 Expo and TES Christmas resources.
- Competition News - January 2012
- 4 Jan 2012
- Details include the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2012, U4Energy, Euroscola, John Hooper Medal for Statistics 2012 Competition, the Learning Without Frontiers Awards, LASCO Maths Challenge 2012, Texaco Children's Art Competition and Future Creators.
- FÍS Film Festival 2011
- 25 Oct 2011
- The FÍS Film Festival 2011 took place in the Helix, DCU on 16th November. Now in it's 7th year, the FÍS Film Festival is a wonderful celebration of the creativity and imagination of children and teachers in Irish schools.
- Doodle 4 Google 2012 Competition
- 12 Oct 2011
- Google use their homepage logo designs, or doodles, to celebrate different people, events or special dates. These doodles are usually created by their Google web designers. However, for the fourth year running they're inviting Irish students to create their own doodle by taking part in the Doodle 4 Google competition, where they can design a Google logo based on the theme of “I wish”.
- 12 Days of Christmas Event
- 19 Dec 2011
- In the spirit of all things Christmas, we will be adding one new ICT resource/tool into e-Links every day from the 12 - 23 December
- Useful Weblinks - December 2011
- 19 Dec 2011
- Details include MakeUseOf Cheat Sheets, Coding for our lives article, Tools for Teachers, Choices 2012 Expo and TES Christmas resources.
- Competition News - December 2011
- 15 Dec 2011
- Details include the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2012, U4Energy, Euroscola, John Hooper Medal for Statistics 2012 Competition, the Learning Without Frontiers Awards, LASCO Maths Challenge 2012, Texaco Children's Art Competition and Future Creators.
- Science Week Ireland 2011
- 9 Nov 2011
- Science Week is a week of activities all around Ireland promoting the importance of science and runs from Sunday 13th - Sunday 20th November. This year's theme is ‘The Chemistry of Life’.
- Giftedkids.ie Webinars
- 5 Oct 2011
- Giftedkids.ie will again host a series of webinars this Autumn. You can register your interest now.
- Competition News - November 2011
- 5 Oct 2011
- Details of the Tell the Future competition, 'Why learn more languages?', LASCO Maths Challenge 2012, Science Week 2011 Competitions, Texaco Children's Art Competition, Future Creators and F1 in Schools.
- Useful Weblinks - November 2011
- 5 Oct 2011
- Details include Science Week, TEDx Dublin, Digital Technologies and Mathematics Education (UK) and the Education Matters newsletter.
- International News - November 2011
- 5 Oct 2011
- Information includes the Asia Europe Classroom Network Conference, the Insafe November newsletter, Copyrights and 'Copywrongs' and an Irish teacher wins global Microsoft educator.
- Asia Europe Classroom Network Conference
- 6 Nov 2011
- The tenth edition of the conference for post-primary teachers and educators is taking place from 7 - 11 November 2011 in Dundalk. The theme for the conference this year is “Apps in Asian and European Classrooms! Unleashing Educational Creativity”. The conference aims to provide educators from Asia and Europe with hands-on experience of using emerging technologies to enhance and foster creativity in education.
- NCTE Autumn Online Courses
- 26 Oct 2011
- Enrolment is now open for two free NCTE online courses, Developing e-Learning in your School (Primary) - Starts Nov 7th - and Developing e-Learning in your School (Post Primary) - Starts Nov 14th.
- Launch of GESCI, founded by the UN ICT Task Force
- 4 Oct 2011
- GESCI, founded by the UN ICT Task Force, has been launched in Kenya. Founded by the UN ICT Task Force, the independent international non-governmental organisation (NGO) will contribute to the development of a knowledge society in developing countries through the provision of strategic advice and technical support on the integration of ICT in Education, Science, Technology and Innovation systems.
- Technology advice: What is a Visualiser?
- 7 Sep 2011
- A visualiser, also known as a document camera, is a camera mounted on a stand that connects to a projector. In many ways a visualiser is a ‘modern’ combination of a camera, a microscope and the overhead projector.
- #ccGlobal Connected Classrooms
- 1 Oct 2011
- #ccGlobal: Connected Classrooms is the concept of #ccGlobal, which started back in June 2011 when teachers from Virginia, USA and Sydney, Australia wanted to create a network of connected schools where students from different countries could work on similar projects. The concept has evolved to include a matrix of connections between schools in Virginia and Sydney and which has now spread to include schools in Ireland and the UK.
- International News - October 2011
- 5 Oct 2011
- Information on the Transit of Venus, the International Student Carbon Footprint Challenge, Teacher training in the Future Classroom Lab and Identifying key competences for the classroom of the future.
- Useful Weblinks - October 2011
- 5 Oct 2011
- Details about YouTube Teachers, Maths Week, Fota Learning Zone, Computer Learning in Communities, DOTS - online ICT in languages, the FÍS Film Festival, Equipping our future generation for the digital age and the Education Matters newsletter.
- Competition News - October 2011
- 5 Oct 2011
- Details of the LASCO Maths Challenge 2012, Science Week 2011 Competitions, Texaco Children's Art Competition, Child Trafficking Art Competition, Future Creators, F1 in Schools and the EU Young Scientist award.
- JMB Education Conference
- 13 Sep 2011
- The NCTE is supporting this years JMB conference which takes place on Monday 19th of September 2011 in the Marino Education Centre. The theme of the conference is "ICT Possibilities for Schools: from education to administration".
- NCTE Online Summer Course Starts
- 1 Jul 2011
- Approximately 800 participants have started the popular NCTE online summer course "Developing e-Learning in your School (Primary)". This innovative, enlightening, practical and highly interactive course has an extra focus on literacy this year.
- Census 2011 for Schools
- 30 Mar 2011
- The 2011 census will take place on Sunday April 10th next, when every household in the country will complete their Census form. In the lead up to the 2011 census, sets of resource materials have been developed for schools to assist teachers and students to learn about the census and to understand how it impacts in our daily lives and in the context of some of the subjects studied at primary and second level.
- Edublog Awards 2010 - 2 Irish winners
- 16 Dec 2010
- Congratulations to both SCC English and Mission V on their successes in the Edublog Awards last night. SCC English were runners-up in the Best Educational Use of Audio for SCC English Audio Boos – Patterns of Poetry and Daynov and Gifted Kids were runners up in the Best Educational Use of a Virtual World for Daynuv.com & Giftedkids.ie MissionV Project.
- eircom Junior Spiders 2010
- 16 Dec 2010
- The eircom Junior Spider Awards, established in 2009 for students at primary and post primary school level, are designed to recognise digital excellence in schools
- FÍS Film Festival 2010
- 16 Dec 2010
- The National FÍS Film Festival took place on Wednesday the 3rd of November in the Helix at Dublin City University with over 800 children and their teachers attending from across the country. President Mary McAleese presented the overall winners, St Aiden's NS, Sligo with the Aileen MacKeogh Award for their film “Awful Arabella”.
- NCTE: Webwise - Internet Safety
- 10 Jun 2011
- Items include: Webwise, in partnership with Mykidstime, answering your questions on the topic of “Keeping Your Teen Safe on Facebook” on Monday 13th June between 9-10 p.m., and Turning off Facebook Face Recognition.
- Competition News - September 2011
- 11 Sep 2011
- Details of SmartClass, Medea Awards, Department of Justice and Equality Art Competition, Microsoft Imagine Cup, U4energy, Xperimania, European Day of Languages, F1 in Schools Technology Challenge, Juvenes Translatores translation contest, BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, Graduate.ie and Poetry Aloud.
- International News - September 2011
- 11 Sep 2011
- Find out about the upcoming Asia-Europe Conference, a survey of ICT in Europe’s schools, a “Back to School 2011” gift from Insafe, Web 2.0 in teaching - evaluation questionnaire and the eTwinning National Quality Label and an eTwinning workshop.
- Useful Weblinks - September 2011
- 11 Sep 2011
- Information about Scratch courses for teachers, Dublin City of Science 2012, an article on using ICT in MFL, the Google Shades Project, Coder Dojos for schools and the European Film Gateway.
- Talented young linguists take on the world
- 22 Jul 2011
- Four of Ireland’s brightest young problem solvers are preparing to pit their wits against the world’s toughest puzzles in language, logic and linguistics when they compete in the International Linguistics Olympiad at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.
- 2011 eircom Junior Spider Awards - OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS
- 7 Sep 2011
- Details of the 2011 eircom Junior Spider Awards have been announced. This is the third year of the awards, which recognise and reward primary and post primary students for the pioneering and successful ways they use the internet in their daily lives.
- INTEL'S smartclass competition (intel/fizzbook)
- 6 Sep 2011
- SmartClass is a collaborative national competition being run for the first time this year by Intel, Steljes and the Educational Company of Ireland. The competition gives post-primary schools around the country the opportunity to win a complete technology package for their entire first year of students.
- Inventorium - Designs for Learning Competition
- 3 Oct 2011
- This is an exciting competition for new products and services, which bridge home, school and gallery based learning. NDRC Inventorium and The Science Gallery Dublin are offering five finalists €3,000 each to develop their ideas, after which they will go on to compete for a further €5,000, along with support to make their idea a reality.
- F1 in Schools - winners and registration
- 3 Oct 2011
- Dundalk Grammar School scooped two international trophies at this year's F1 in Schools World Championships held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. And registration for the 2011-12 season is now open.
- Using Twitter In Education
- 14 Sep 2011
- Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets" and has many applications for educators.
- Primary School's Video work featured on anlar.tv
- 14 Sep 2011
- Gortskehy National School , Annefield, Hollymount, County Mayo is the first primary school in Ireland to have their pupils' video work featured on An Lár TV, a Community TV channel for the Irish Diaspora.
- Scratch Courses for Teachers
- 12 Sep 2011
- Courses in the use of Scratch, a visual programming language, are now open for booking. These courses are funded by the NCTE and are a joint collaboration between LERO, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, and CESI.
- Scoilnet for Teachers
- 7 Jun 2011
- Take a short interactive tour of Scoilnet and learn more about all the learning and teaching resources Scoilnet has to offer in our short or view our new interactive Scoilnet for Teachers guide.
