Folks, I did an free online course in AI last autumn with Professor Sebastion Thrun of Stanford.
The course was very good, and about 22,000 student completed it.
Professor Thrun has now joined a new startup company , who are offering two courses one in developing the program for an autonomous, self driving robotic car and the second in building a search engine.

Hi All,

Adding this in for a colleague who works in Internet Safety:

Hi JP,

There are 3 downloadable lesson plans on cyberbullying (with Teachers’
Notes) in the SPHE booklet Be Safe Be Webwise
[link] Teaching about the AUP and
Responsible Use is covered in Topic 1 ‘Secret Codes.’ SPHE teachers

An interesting development from Microsoft as they move to plugin free
browsing in IE ... [link]

"The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site
that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customers experience

He may well be Exceptionally Able (NCCAs version of 'Gifted'). He might be
10 in body but 20 in brain.
[link] is a nice place to learn java. Let him rip.
Peter
Www.giftedandtalented.ie

I am currently teaching scratch to first years. I put all the resources and
links on moodle and some of them have been very keen and worked through all
my material at home. To facilitate and extend these students I set up a
project brief for an "independent learning stream" and then use the
discussion forum on moodle for them to ask me/each other

Scratch, logo, mindstorms, arduino - anything related to creative yet
structured approaches to building and problem solving should be good J
Pairing with another pupil and setting out a rough structured supportive
programme is key rather than unstructured hit/miss playing around with it
IMHO.

Kindest Regards,

Hi I prepared this last year for internet safety it may be of some use
[link]

Hi,

I am generating a Cyberbullying Policy and some lessons to complement it. Anyone have any insights/advice or draft ?

Thanking you in advance.
JP Smith

Scratch!
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Jim Redmond | jimredm...@gmail.com | jredm...@alexandracollege.ie

Hi Shane,
I suggest Scratch ([link]), it's great for learning the
fundamentals of programming and easy to design small games in it. See
[link] for a national competition in it as well.
Regards,
Stephen
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Shane O'Connell <

Hey. I teach a very bright 10 year old who finishes his classwork very
quickly and I am trying to keeping him interested. He wants to design
computer games when he is older. Any suggestions on suitable
activities/projects for a 10 year old in this area. Any suggestion
welcome

In response to the following thread, I would like to clarify that the iPads are priced at €487 including VAT.

We have competitively priced the Leba case, which is a high quality product; its many benefits are listed here: ([link]). The iPad in Schools implementation is also competitively priced and is a valuable service for schools, that includes training, set-up of the iPads with IP allocations and printing, sharing of apps, backup and securing of software and configurations; all from Apple certified technical engineers.

Sometimes you just gotta say it as it is! J

Kindest Regards,
Seaghan.

Sent: 02 February 2012 00:17
To: cesi-list@googlegroups.com

Seaghan,
That was my after-thought but then figured that if they bought without getting informed first, that was dumb!
Peter
Not dumb – under-informed ;)

Kindest Regards,

Me neither but it should (if it was to go this route) strip out the trader's
puff so that the line between promotion and information is clear.

Seaghan,
That was my after-thought but then figured that if they bought without
getting informed first, that was dumb!
Peter

Tom,
Or alternatively plug other e-resources (can I own that term?!)
Thanks Tom.
Peter

I don't see the harm in the NCTE highlighting new offerings that may
be of interest to educators. I don't see it as promotion, but
information.

D'oh!! - should have realised this - thanks Conor, much appreciated!!
Kindest Regards,
Seaghan.
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Sent: 31 January 2012 23:01
To: CESI-list
The integrated mobile theme works perfect for IOS and Android. No app
needed! You can submit files etc from a phone - even the older versions of

Not dumb – under-informed ;)

Kindest Regards,
Seaghan.

Sent: 01 February 2012 21:43
To: cesi-list@googlegroups.com

Sadly, some are dumb enough to fall for it.
Peter
Look, I pads for only €870 each!!!!
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In fairness NCTE have been platform agnostic down through the years, so that
was, in my experience, out of character.
Down through the years, when working on ICT courses etc. - good efforts
always made to provide open/free software exemplars and alternatives on
other platforms etc.

Kindest Regards,