News
The Internet can be a maze, especially when you want relevant educational content. This section provides news items that are of particular interest to those involved with ICT in Irish education.
- Webwise Primary Programme Launched
- The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has launched the The Webwise Primary Teachers’ Handbook
- Ministers Quinn and Rabbitte announce rollout of high speed Broadband to all second level schools
- The Minister for Communications, and the Minister for Education and Skills, have announced today (6th February) that all second level schools are to get high speed (100Mbps) broadband.
- Webwise Youth Panel’s Tips for Teachers
- The Webwise Youth Panel suggest tips on protecting privacy, controlling sharing and controlling who can find you when social networking.
- Industry volunteers Safer Internet Day Talks in Schools
- Industry volunteers from Microsoft, UPC and O2 will visit over 15,000 primary school children across Ireland to promote Internet Safety
- Safer Internet Day 2012 - Webwise Parenting Workshops
- Workshops hosted by National Parents Council County Branches will help parents get Webwise for Safer Internet Day 2012. As part of Safer Internet Day 2012, the National Parents Council (NPC) Primary trainers will deliver internet safety workshops for parents in locations across the country.
- Free NCTE online course on Internet Safety
- To help celebrate Safer Internet Day on 7th February, NCTE learning online has made a short online course, Internet Safety in School & Classroom, temporarily available to teachers without enrolment.
- Safer Internet Day 2012
- The 8th Safer Internet Day will be celebrated on 7th February 2012. Webwise has suggestions for activities and events that you can hold in your school or classroom to take part in Safer Internet Day 2012.
- CESI Conference 2012
- The annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland will take place in Portlaoise on February 24th and 25th, 2012.
- Free 2 day workshop for Science teachers
- Discovering and Promoting Inquiry in the Sciences through Computational Thinking
- Free NCTE Online Courses for Spring
- The NCTE is offering its highly interactive and free online courses this spring to primary and post primary teachers.
- Scoilnet Maps — Cessation of Service
- It is with regret that we inform you that the Scoilnet Maps service (maps.scoilnet.ie) will no longer be available as of 4 February 2012.
- Scoilnet Téamaí - Stair, Eolaíocht agus Tíreolaíocht
- There have been various resources developed on Scoilnet that are suitable for Ghaelscoileanna and Scoileanna Gaeltachta. Why not have a look at them today?
- Using Video to support Teaching and Learning – training course
- This training course for teachers takes place in July in Leuven, Belgium and is aimed at enthusiastic educators who would like to create their own educational video materials.
- NCTE: Scoilnet News
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Teachers Competition, New Gaeilge Resources: Scrúdú Béil Ardteist 2012 and Dates & Festivals in December.
- Free Computer Science Event: Teaching Computer Science to Kids
- On Wednesday 1st February next, University College Cork’s Prof Barry O’Sullivan will give a free interactive lecture on teaching the principles of computer science to primary school children.
- Scoilnet Webhosting & blogging service
- The Scoilnet blogging service allows schools to easily develop a school website or school blog and host it for free under the schools broadband programme.
- Tools for Teachers
- One of the great benefits of the internet is the availability of online applications that have the potential to make life so much easier for the teacher.
- Useful Weblinks - February 2012
- Details include MakeUseOf Cheat Sheets, Coding for our lives article, Tools for Teachers, Choices 2012 Expo and TES Christmas resources.
- Competition News - February 2012
- Details include the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2012, U4Energy, Euroscola, John Hooper Medal for Statistics 2012 Competition, the Learning Without Frontiers Awards, LASCO Maths Challenge 2012, Texaco Children's Art Competition and Future Creators.
- International News - February 2012
- Information includes the InGenious Project, "Chemistry: All About You" and the Insafe December newsletter.
- NCTE: email Newsletter
- Get details of our email Newsletter, which is distributed throughout the school year, and also find out how to subscribe. All issues are also available 'as Gaeilge'.
