The focus of this paper is a challenging analysis of how many educators perceive technology today and how children learn. Technology changes people. A person, whose words can span continents or reach around the world in a fraction of a micro-second, is considered different from a person who can only speak across a room. Given such changes, our spirituality naturally alters and evolves (just as it transforms as we grow older and wiser or older and more foolish). “Such change is a part of life and while that change is generally recognized as good, not all change is good.

This session will cover an overview of the Schools Broadband Program in terms of what is being provided to schools, and how schools are expected to engage with the program. This will include how schools will be connected to the network, the roles of NCTE, the Service Desk, HEAnet and an overview of the services being provided.

Is cúrsa féinteagaisc ríomhchuidithe Gaeilge é Easy Reader a d’fhorbair Pat Mc Cormack nuair nach raibh sé in ann teacht ar chúrsa Gaeilge ar an margadh a bhí oiriúnach dó féin mar fhoghlaimeoir. D’eirigh leis na disciplíní éagsúla a tharraingt le chéile chun cúrsa ar ard-chaighdeán a chruthú. Tá tacaíocht ar líne ar fáil don fhoghlaimeoir agus eolas breise ar www.irishforlife.com

This presentation will look at the possible uses of the Interactive Whiteboard. These boards have received much attention in England and elsewhere. CESI are a co-sponsor (along with Drumcondra Education Centre and the Irish Computer Society) of a six-school project which aims to evaluate the use of the boards in Irish classrooms.

Part 1. With the introduction of Broadband for schools, Networking Part 1 will deal with what is required to have internet access available within the school. It will deal with cabling/wireless, hubs/switches, network cards, protocols. In the presentation, we will look at
1. Introduction to Network. Basic principles
2. Cabling, how to do it yourself,
3. Wireless, what is involved
3. Network switches,
4. Installing and configuring network cards
5. TCP/IP