At the recent Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) Ed Tech conference at ATU Sligo, we availed of the beautiful new podcasting studio facility to record a short conversation between our own TeachMeet researcher, Mags Amond; and the Gasta Master, Tom Farrelly. In this short recording, Tom reflects on the evolution of Gasta, recent sessions, and […]
After our panel discussion for Open Education Week 2024, it became evident that there is a growing interest in open educational practices within the CESI executive and community. We are hoping that this is just the first of many more sessions focusing on open education, and who better than a long-standing member of our community, […]
Join us for a very special CESI Café on Thursday, 16th May at 8pm on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). We will be joined by Trevor Boland, Assistive Technology Officer at DCU, for “Getting your Accessibility House in order: an acronym that embeds Accessibility into your inclusion practices”. Presenter biography: Trevor Boland advocates for inclusion […]
Computer Science Week takes place from 20th – 27th April, the full programme of events, courtesy of Oide, is now available. Wednesday, 24th April, Come and Try It CS session at Dublin West EC For the more experienced there will be a couple of embroidery machines, microbits, picos, LEDs, motors, sensors and various other bits […]
Join us for our special Open Education Week 2024 open café discussion featuring our special guests Dr Mags Amond (CESI), Dr Eamon Costello (Dublin City University), Dr Verena Roberts (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) and John Hegarty (Clongowes Wood College and CESI list moderator) Moderated by Kate Molloy (CESI Co-Chair) Speaker bios: Dr Mags Amond is […]
We are delighted to announce that our 2024 CESI Conference will take place on Saturday, 2nd March 2024 at ATU Galway City. We invite you to submit an idea for a long form workshop. We encourage active participation and engagement, creativity, and thoughtful planning. Please keep in mind that our conference is BYOD. Our expression […]
We’re pleased to open registration for our next TeachMeet, which takes place online on Thursday, 16th November. You can register now to join the Zoom meeting. Please do consider presenting on the night. We are looking for nanopresentations (2 minutes) or micropresentations (5-7 minutes). Just tell us what your topic is! We will also stream […]
We’re delighted to announce that episodes of our CESI Staffroom are now available as podcasts on Spotify. Give our show a listen (or a share!) for some tech tips for teaching from our wider CESI community. Listen to the show below.
This summer we are delighted to announce that we are holding two further CESI•CS national workshops. We will be in Waterford on Saturday 15th June and Monaghan on Saturday 22nd June. We will run parallel sessions: morning beginning at 10:00 with lunch at 12:30 and afternoon from 14:00, finishing at 16:30. Keep an eye on […]
On Monday 4th February from 8.30-9.30pm, @CESItweets will take over #edchatie for an online discussion about the annual Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) conference and TeachMeet. It will be a focused discussion, in which we will aim to cover four questions/topics in the one night, rather than the usual single topic. The four topics for […]
CESI is generously supported by Teacher Professional Networks (TPN)