Inside View

Tech for Second Graders

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT things I've accomplished this summer is meeting up with Debbie Keys, a second grade teacher in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to chat about ways to bring Irish and American primary school students into the same...

10 Things Learned at EdTech 2006

AS AN EDUCATION professional, well-orchestrated events like EdTech 2006 appeal to me. Anyone who attends one of the annual ILTA conferences leaves with their head feeling like a sponge. I did too so to drain out the excess information, I...

Never Late for Dinner

I'VE CHAIRED a few things (like the Impressions Debate on "How Green Should Our Valley Be" [30.2 MB 96 kbps MP3 file]) and along the way I've learned it's smart to be early to things involving seated audiences. Jonco explains. Father S...

Run broadband across home

INBITE -- I pulled together a 22-minute Powerpoint presentation in under four hours of preparation time because I have broadband at home. More importantly, that broadband connection costs nothing for the third month running because of a ...

Moleskine the most helpful invention

THE MOST HELPFUL invention that has allowed me to do my work better is the Moleskine journal. It's something I thought about when considering a question from Science Week Ireland. I carry a Moleskine more often than I carry my mobile p...

Christmas 2008 Wrap-up

BLOGGING AFTER major events gives people who care an opportunity to share in the occasion without burning the carbon to attend in person. We made it even more real by recording video of kids at Christmas and those video minutes will be p...

Sneak Peek at @Socrative Gasta #ILTA2016

I'VE REDUCED my 30 months of experience with Socrative to five minutes for a very short talk at the annual Irish Learning Technology Association Conference in Dublin tomorrow. If you want to participate in this hands-on experience, you s...

Socrative

There Is Another Twitter Channel

Bernie Goldbach reading the Indo | Photo from my iTouch SEVERAL TOP-FLIGHT presenters, athletes, musicians and other celebrities have been targeted by snarky, rude, and often downright threatening behavior on Twitter. When this happens,...

Andrea Weckerle and Civility

Bernie Goldbach in LIT-Clonmel | Photo of a Skype call with Andrea Weckerle. ANDREA WECKERLE, author of Civility in the Digital Age, beamed into our lecture hall today and shared several key points arising from a reading of her book. Th...

Andrea Weckerle and Online Civility

Tipperary Institute's first graduation

HUNDREDS OF WELL-WISHERS crammed into the conference centre of Tipperary Institute (TI) to congratulate 32 degree graduates from the business, computing and rural development departments. This marked the first college degree graduation p...