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 […]
Congratulations to the 6th Year Computer Science students in Cabinteely CS for coming 1st last week in the LC CS CESI Quiz (teacher: Aoife O’Rourke). They won the €200 voucher kindly sponsored by sgeducation.ie. The four finalists were: 5th Year CS Terenure College (teacher: Ollie Cosgrave), 5th Year CS Adamstown CC (teacher: Suzanne Linnane) and 5th […]
A great programme of events for Ireland’s first ever Computer Science Week (8-15 Oct.)
Thanks to all the teachers and students who took part in this year’s online quiz. We hope you had some fun doing it and that some healthy competition emerged between classes!1st prize to 5th Year/Walton class in Tullow Community School with 45 points (Cleona McCann’s class)! You’ve won a €100 voucher from sgeducation.ie. 2nd Prize to […]
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