Last December Conor Galvin posted a message on the Computers in Education Society of Ireland list about an "ICT for Collaborative, Project-Based, Teaching and Learning” course taking place in Malta, in the summer of 2010. It was funded as a Comenius Life Long Learning programme. Applications were through Léargas In Dublin. 

This research project, based at the University of Limerick, is looking at the potential application of a Virtual Laboratory for Senior Cycle Chemistry to the Irish context (titled VCLIPPS) by building on and extending software originally developed at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh.

The proliferation of digital multimedia has posed challenges and created new opportunities, and this is no more imaginable than where pedagogy is concerned. In 2010, a project was set up to provide archiving solutions to archive curators, content owners, education providers and users of digital media alike.

Mention the word PowerPoint (PPt) in polite company – and be guaranteed some pretty passionate reactions! In the wrong hands, it can become a coma-inducing lethal weapon. Just think about how often have you heard the term Death by PowerPoint.

Since it was founded in 1877, the mission of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) has been to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland. Digitization of the Library’s collections has been an important part of the National Library’s role in recent years and has allowed us to make accessible our materials on a much wider scale; we can now count among our ‘readers’ online visitors from places as far afield and diverse as Fiji and Uzbekistan.