Welcome to the Conference
It
gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the 6th National Conference and the
second to be held in the RTC Tallaght.
I welcome the Minister for Education Mrs Niamh Bhreathnach, who officially open the conference. The ministers presence and support for the conference gives great hope for information technology in education.
At a
time of great interest in the promotion and development of Information and
Communication Technology in education CESI conference adapts the title ‘IT
across the Curriculum’ which reflects these interests.
The
success of the annual conference is dependent on many interested bodies and to
the following CESI are grateful;
Dr.
Columb Collins and his staff have once again provided an excellent venue and
all round support to CESI conference.
The
presenters of the many IT topics are to be thanked for sharing their
knowledge
and expertise in their respective areas of IT.
The
Department of Education and the companies who support the conference and CESI
throughout the year.
To
the staff at the Dublin West Education Centre, who co-ordinated the
conference
on behalf of CESI we are indebted to the assistance.
For
the continued support of the members and guests of CESI who attend conference.
An
event such as this would not be possible but for the professional planning of
the conference co-ordinator, Mr Gerry Morgan and the committee. The success of
the conference is a testimony to their dedication to CESI.
A
sincere thanks to you all.
I
hope your experience of the conference will enhance your knowledge of
information and communication technology.
Eddie Guilmartin
Eddie
Guilmartin
Chairperson
COMPUTER EDUCATION
SOCIETY OF IRELAND
Diary of Events
Friday 15th of November
6.30 - 7.00 Registration
7.00 -
7.30 Mr. Eddie Guilmartin
Chairperson of CESI
Word of Welcome to RTC Tallaght
Dr. Columb Collins
Director RTC Tallaght
Opening Address
Mrs. Niamh Bhreathnach
Minister for Education
7.30 - 8.30 Education and the
Internet
Michael Hallissy
John Hurley
8.30 -
9.30 Authoring Software /
Multimedia
Larry McNutt
Saturday 16th of November 1996
9.30 - 10.15 Presentations
10.15 -
10.45 Coffee
10.45 -
11.30 Presentation
11.45 -
12.30 Presentation
12.30 -
2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 2.45 Presentation
3.00 - 4.00 Presentation of
recent developments
in IT in Education
4.00 - 4.30 Open
Forum
4.30 Close
Presentation Programme
Friday 15th of November 1996
7.30 - 8.30
Title Speaker Room
Education and
the Internet Mike Hallissy&John Hurley 001
8.30 - 9.30
Title Speaker Room
Authoring Software!
Multimedia Larry McNutt 001
Saturday 16th of November 1996
9.30-10.15
Title Speaker Room
History Sites on the Internet Pat Callan 015
Primary/Secondary
Special Education
Primary Marty
Holland 024
IT in Transition
Year Secondary Pat Seaver 01
Career
Guidance Software John A Dunne S
J 019
Secondary
Saturday 16th of November 1996
10.45-11.30
Title Speaker Room
Business and IT Secondary Dermot Reynolds 015
Science
and IT
Primary/Secondary Philip Matthews 024
Shareware Primary Robert 0 Leary 017
Maths
and IT:
Internet
and other resources
Primary/Secondary John Evans 019
11.45-12.30
Title Speaker Room
Communicating
with other
schools using the Internet Tomas 0 Briain 015
Authoring I CBT Niall
Watts 024
NEC Teachers
Computer
Group
Primary Oliver Looney 017
Logo Primary Anthony Gubbins 019
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
I Commercial
Exhibitions
2.00 - 2.45
Title Speaker Room
The Globe Project
(Internet) Primary Patrick
Bates 015
Music and IT (Acorn)
Primary Patrick
Carroll 017
Special Education
Secondary Marty
Holland 024
Languages and IT
Secondary Deirdre
Hetherington 019
3.00 - 4.00
Presentation of recent developments
in IT in Education Room 001
Presenters: Cyril
Drury
Barry
Murphy
Elizabeth
Qldham
NITEC
4.00 - 4.30 Open Forum Room 001
4.30 Close
Abstracts
Friday 15th at 7.30 - 8.30
Education and the Internet
Brief
history of EdNet. Power of Email in Irish Schools. Locating Resources on the
Web -
Research,
Lesson Plans, Curriculum Resources, Software. Irish School Sites on the Web.
The Future -
What lies ahead?
8.30 - 9.30
Authoring software I Multimedia
Practical demonstration of lesson development using authoring software.
Saturday 16th at 9.30 - 10.15
History Sites on the Internet — Primary I Secondary
A consideration of the potential of the Internet for history teachers
and students, with illustrations from sites relevant to Irish teachers.
Special Education — Primary
A look of some of the ways in which computers may be used to enhance and
support learning for pupils with learning difficulties.
IT in Transition Year — Secondary
An examination of how computers may be used as a tool for cross
curricular work as advocated by Transition Year.
Career Guidance Software — Secondary
A brief description of Irish Guidance Software used in Second Level
Schools, Youth
Information Offices, FAS Offices and so forth. The Presentation will
touch on packages such
as Qualif ax, Jobscan, My Future, Gairm, among others.
Business and IT — Secondary
Evaluation of developing Business Studies Teachers Association of
Ireland web page/site with discussions of practical difficulties and processes.
Also included in talk a demonstration using demo pack called Visual
Accounting.
Science and IT — Primary / Secondary
An introduction to measuring/date gathering with a computer. The
presentation is designed to be of interest to material school teachers, and for
teachers of Junior Certificate Science. It will show how measurements of
temperature, pressure, sound and light can be made using a computer. No
technical knowledge is required to use the equipment.
Shareware — Primary
Demonstration of the best educational shareware titles available for the
P.C. for primary schools; Irish copyright free clipart for illustrating
childrens’ writing. Demonstration of authored geography software.
Maths and IT: Internet and other resources Primary/Secondary Use of
Internet and other computer resources in the teaching of Maths.
Saturday
16th at 11.45 - 12.30
Communicating with other schools
using the Internet
The place of telecoms in the curriculum. Some examples of interschool
communications.
Good and poor proposals for interschool communications. How to find
proposals. Where to
post proposals.
Evaluating and discussion.
Authoring / CBT Software Demonstration
Presentation of AIMTECH range of authoring tools
ICON author, CBT express, Jamba.
NEC Teachers Computer Group — Primary
The restoration and renovation of centre - funding Involvement of N.E.C. Ballivor, Exhibition of
Computer projects April ‘96 - Installation
of computers October ‘96 - Reports
from teachers who hopefully will have used the centre with their classes by the
time of the conference.
Logo — Primary
A look at some of the tasks given to children in 5th. class to perform,
having given them basic knowledge about the capabilities of the software. The
method employed is to set them tasks where they will have to make some
decisions for themselves to help them complete the given task.
Saturday 16th at 2.00 - 2.45
Globe Project (Internet) — Primary
The
Globe Project and Spice Islands voyage using the Internet and Authoring
Programs in the Primary School as a basis for project work.
Music and IT (Acorn) - Primary
A
look at two Music Programmes (Beetles and Notate) for the Acorn computers and
their uses in Class
Special Education — Secondary
A
look of some of the ways in which computers may be used to enhance and support
learning for pupils with learning difficulties.
Languages and IT — Secondary
Title
of presentation: Computer aided Language Teaching and Language Learning with
specific reference to Irish, French and German.
Assuming
no previous experience of CALL by teachers attending, I will briefly
demonstrate software programmes available commercially, followed by short
discussion of authorware. Resources on the internet for language teachers and
learners including shareware, e-pals, organisations, projects.
Integrating
CALL into class work.
Presenters |
Patrick
Bates is a Primary school teacher. Involved in pilot IT.
Project for Primaryschools 1984 - 86.
Articles in Primary Computing and INTO Publications re IT. Primary author of
Information Technology in Irish schools. Involved delivery of IT. inservice
courses. CESI. executive for years.
Pat Callan is Vice-Principal of
Malahide Community School and a committee member of the Dublin branch of the
History Teachers Association of Ireland. He has published and lectured on Irish
history, and history teaching in Ireland. He lectures in St. Patrick’s College,
Maynooth, in the Education Department.
Patrick
Carroll is a Primary school Principal, Scoil Mhuire,
Portroe, Nenagh,
Co.Tipperary. Given courses on Acorn
Computers. Diploma in
Computer Studies from Mary
Immaculate Training College, Limerick.
Diploma in Remedial Education.
J.S.
Dunne S.J. is a graduate of U.C.D., UCC,
UL, and Milltown Institute. Fr. Dunne has been a Guidance Counsellor since
1975. He “converted” to computers following a years course for teachers in U.L.
He is the current President at the Institute of Guidance Counsellors and part
of the team develop ing the 2nd. level courses suite of programmes QUALIFAX. He
has represented the UCC in the E.U. and is currently a member of the E.U.
Netform team working on “Guidance Software and the Internet”.
John Evans is
a teacher of Mathematics at Mount Temple Comprehensive School; a member of the
Mathematics Syllabus Committee (Senior Cycle) of the NCCA since 1989, and Chair
since 1994; a member of the course devel opment team for Mathematics in the
Leaving Certificate Applied 1995 -96; a
member of the NAME Project development team and provider of technical support
for that Project.
Anthony Gubbins trained
in St. Pats, Drumcondra. Taught for three years in St. Teresa’s Gardens in
Dublin and then moved to Bruff in Co. Limerick in 1973. He uses computers in
the class on a daily basis for Drawing, Word-pro cessing and Logo mostly.
Deirdre
Hetherington is a Senior Technician, Language Centre, Maynooth
College. Responsible for technology within the centre; language laboratories,
audio and video production, self-access language learning facility
(incorporating audio, video, satellite and terrestrial television) and com
puter aided language learning facility. Research areas; production of language
learning courses particularly in Irish. All aspects of computer aided language
learning, my present interest is the potential of produc ing CALL programmes in
Irish. Member of EUROCALL. Former secretary of Education Media Association of
Ireland.
CESI Officers and Committee 1995/6 |