This year I decided to take a trip back to the CESI conference run by the Computers in Education Society of Ireland. Admittedly it had been several years since I had been to a CESI conference because the previous wasn’t really innovative to me. In fact my first event EdTech conference was a CESI conference…
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When it comes to iPhone cases I am pretty difficult to please. I like protective covers but the also have to be light and well they can’t be ugly! Having had the snap-on hard back cases in the past I have avoided them since cracking the screen of my iPhone 5. When it came to…
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This week I was lucky to be able to try out the Octagon 4D set of apps and cards. As a massive fan of augmented reality I was eager to try these after spotting them at #BETT2017. Shipping only took a couple of days and there was a good deal if you ordered the full…
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I hadn’t been to BETT since 2015 and back then I was left feeling a little overwhelmed by the whole thing. There were an awful lot of attendance apps that year and I recall very little else! Not having been there in 2016 I decided to attend again this year and really enjoyed the trip.…
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This week we had the privilege of welcoming in a group of TY students to Apple RTC Cork for a morning of coding. The week was organised as part of iWish During the morning the students took part in a lot of different activities including, The Swift Playgrounds Hour of Code Coding with Osmo Coding…
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Preparing for an iPad 1:1 classroom means trying to decide what apps to use. I have tried loads, some great, some awful and some I can see myself using for years to come. Below are my top 10 apps (in no particular order). 1. Socrative – iOS, web-based and free. Quiz based app 2. Verso…
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So this week marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the iPhone and it’s time to reflect on how this has transformed the way we communicate so below are the top 10 ways it has changed the way I communicate. I didn’t get my first iPhone until September 2009 and it was an iPhone…
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Computer Science week came along fast again this year and students were looking forward to it again. In 2015 we mainly relied on The Hour of Code website. This year, however, there was a chance to re-plan the week to include the introduction of Swift Playgrounds and so we mostly relied on this. I ran a few…
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In November I attended the ADE Vision and Impact event in London. This was a meet up of Apple Distinguished Educators from across the UK, Ireland and Russia. During this time we were challenged to find ‘our why’. Why are we here, why do we do what we do, and why we want to make…
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The EDtech Portal was established in 2016 as part of a project I was completing for my MA in E-Learning Design and Development at CIT. The aim of this project was to create e-learning content and so I created a platform which features free learning courses for teachers. Course content ranges from getting started with…
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