CESI Annual Conference
The annual conference of the Computer Education Society
of Ireland will take place in St Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra,
Dublin 9; on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of November. Once more there
is a rich menu of presentations and workshops to choose from. Among the
speakers is Dr. David Cavallo a research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory.
His work focuses on the design and implementation of reforms of learning
environments and educational systems, and the role technology can play
in this change process. For more information and an up-to-date programme
of the conference visit http://www.iol.ie/~cesi and also page 4 for more
details.
1000 Téarma Ríomhaireachta
The wait for a standardised list of terms and vocabulary for those who use ICTs in an Irish language environment is over. Fiontar, located in DCU has recently launched its Gaeilge-Béarla and Irish-English Dictionary of 1000 most used terms in an easy-find well laid out format. (See page 3)
Europrim 2000
EUROPRIM 2000 was held at the State Institute
for School and Adult Education in Soest, Germany in October. This conference
which was funded by the EU, was a forum for over 60 primary teacher practitioners
and researchers from all over Europe to share their current work in integrating
ICTs into the curriculum and also to co-ordinate future European inter-school
projects. Five Irish primary teachers participated. For more
information on this ongoing project visit the Europrim web site at http://www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/europrim2000/index_e.html
CESI is a co-sponsor of EUROPRIM 2000
MediaLabEurope
During the summer MIT and the Republic of Ireland signed an agreement establishing a ten year collaboration to develop MediaLabEurope as an independent, university-level research and educational centre based in Dublin. For more information visit www.mle.ie.
Netd@ys 2000: 20-27 November 2000
Check out details of Netd@ys 2000 in your area from
the ICT Advisor in your local Education Centre
For national projects and general information visit
http://netdaysireland.ie
EUROLOGO 2001- A Turtle Odyssey
Scope of the conference
EUROLOGO is a biannual scientific international conference
that addresses all scientists, developers and educators that develop, use
or study all kinds of Logo or Logo-based software. Furthermore also investigations
of other exploratory computational environments, classroom applications
of Logo philosophy and other innovative educational research and practices
that are in touch with the Logo approach are covered. EUROLOGO 2001 will
be held in Linz, Austria from 21-25 August 2001. The conference will carry
on the work of the previous ones in Dublin (1987), Gent (1989), Parma (1991),
Anavissos (1993), Birmingham (1995), Budapest (1997) and Sofia (1999).
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Learning with Logo: Cognitive, cultural and cross-cultural
aspects - Learning by exploring, communication and collaboration-Methodology
and curriculum design
Classroom practices-Pedagogical and psychological
issues- Teacher education-Children with special needs- Software environments
and tools -Mental models of computation -Robotics with Logo: connecting
mind and physical reality -Implementing Logo philosophy with other software
-Logo in the Information Society -Logo and global communication -Challenges
of the Internet
Conference language English
Important deadlines
31 January 2001:
Abstracts of papers and Proposals for workshops/tutorials
21 March 2001:
Submission of full papers
31 May 2001:
Notification of acceptance
15 July 2000:
Final Program
SPIN A WEB OPEN DAY INVITATION
The annual Spin A Web Open Day will be hosted by the
Computer Science Department in Trinity College and eircom on Saturday
the 11th of November in Trinity's O'Reilly Institute. The Spin A Web Open
Day provides students and teachers with the opportunity to learn
about web design while also finding out further details about Spin A Web.
There will be hands on web authoring sessions for both novices and more
advanced users and lectures on topics ranging from "programming in pearl"
to "writing for the web".
The Open Day sessions and lectures will be geared
to post primary students and teachers at both the primary and post primary
level. For further details on the Open Day, visit http://www.spinaweb.ie
Important dates
11 November 2000:
Open Day, O'Reilly Institute, Computer Science Department,
Trinity College.
2 April 2001:
Closing Date for Entries.
May 2001:
Final in Trinity College.
PRIMARY SCHOOL CATEGORY
This year's Spin A Web competition will include a
5th and 6th class primary school category. The top primary school entries
will be hosted in the Showcase section of the Spin A Web site and five
primary school projects will be presented with award certificates and prizes
at the Spin A Web final. Primary school teachers are encouraged to attend
the Spin A Web Open Day for further details.
Design Competition
At CESI conference a competition will be launched
to design a new logo for CESI. It's aimed at students and further details
will be available at the conference and from the website: www.iol.ie/~cesi
CESI Conference 2000
Presentations will focus on the use of ICTs in primary and post-primary education, including classroom experience, project work and postgraduate research.
There will be four parallel strands to the conference: Primary, Post-primary, General Education, Special Education and Learning Support, together with two workshops and commercial exhibitions.
Details of conference fee, etc. on enclosed registration
form.
To register, please complete the enclosed form and
forward, together with the appropriate fee, to:
CESI Conference 2000
c/o Blackrock Education Centre, Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire,
Co. Dublin.
Provisional Programme Outline
Friday evening:
6.00 - 7.00 Registration (tea/coffee)
7.00 - 7.30 Opening addresses
7.30 - 8.30 Keynote address (Dr David
Cavallo)
8.30 - 9.30 Parallel presentations
9.30 - 10.00 Exhibitions
Saturday:
9.15 - 9.45: Commercial presentations
9.50 - 10.45: Parallel presentations
10.45 - 11.15: Coffee/Tea
11.15 - 12.10: Parallel presentations
12.15 - 1.00: Parallel presentations
1.00 - 2.00: Lunch/Exhibitions
2.00 - 2.50: Parallel presentations
3.00 - 3.50: Parallel presentations
4.00 - 5.00: Open Forum and close
of Conference
5.00 - 6.00: Cheese and Wine reception
This programme is subject to minor changes - for full up to date information on the conference, visit the CESI website at http://www.iol.ie/~cesi/
Intel Teach to the Future
Many second level teachers have recently begun a 30-40
hour course which has as its main aims to help them in the building of
a port folio of lessons integrating ICTs into their school curriculum.
Intel is involved in promoting this programme in many
countries and is supported here in Ireland by the National Centre for Technology
in Education and the Education Centres.
This is a three year project and it is hoped that
by the end of 2002 as many as 6000 second level teachers will have completed
the course.
WCCE 2001
7th World Conference on Computers in Education
Networking the Learner
29th July to 3rd August 2001, Copenhagen (http://www.wcce2001.dk)
Articles for inclusion in the next issue of this newsletter
should be sent before Dec 5th 2000, to:
Editor, CESI Newsletter, Blackrock Education Centre,
Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Email: tobriain@iol.ie
Editorial Committee -Tom Ó Briain (Editor),
Seán Close, and Conor Mac Liam
ICT Advisors
A significant feature of the Schools IT2000 programme is the Teaching
Skills Initiative (TSI) and an integral part of TSI is the appointment
of ICT Advisors to the Education Centre Network. Twenty regional
ICT advisors were to work out of Education Centres. Most of the appointments
have been made. Here is the list:
Education Centre | Advisor | phone |
Athlone | Una Feeley | 0902 30466 |
Blackrock | Tom Ó Briain | 01-2805199 |
Ck on Shannon | Vincent Farrell | 078-20383 |
Clare | Tony Kelly | 065-6844531 |
Cork |
Mary O”Leary | 021 503658 |
Donegal | Gabriel Gordon | 073-23487 |
Drumcondra | David Kearney | 01-8379799 |
Dublin West | Fintan Keating | 01-4643052 |
Galway | Ciaran Folan | 091-778177 |
Kildare | vacant | 045-530910 |
Kilkenny | Willie McTiernan | 056-70087 |
Laois | Jim Enright | 050261170 |
Limerick | Fiona Morrisey | 061313174 |
Mayo |
Art Ó Súilleabháin | 094-38466 |
Monaghan | Jim McGee | 047-72704 |
Navan | Michael Farry | 046-74970 |
Sligo | John Joe Gallagher | 071-41224 |
Tralee | Pat Lawlor | 066-7134331 |
Waterford | vacant | 051-876892 |
Wexford | Michael Duggan | 054-36767 |
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