CESI Staffroom

A chat with Leigh Graves Wolf of University College Dublin interviewed by Richard Millwood on Wednesday 5 March 2025. In the conversation, Leigh talks about her inspiration to be involved with educational technology, her views that it is most effective when seamless and that we promote diversity rather than 'best practice'. She adds that collaboration and engagement are some of the most effective...

Margaret (Mags) is an Assistant Professor in Inclusive Education for the Education Department in Maynooth University. Her experience in inclusive and special education includes teaching, teacher professional learning design and delivery, policy development and curriculum design. As a Fulbright Scholar, in 2021 Margaret worked with Lynch School of Education and Humanities at Boston College and CAST...

Paddy Bates is a Primary Teacher Involved in IT from early 80s. He's a long time member of CESI and was President in 2002. He's a Coordinator of Culture Dept of European Virtual School. He's been Involved with IT projects with INTO, Dept of Education Pilot Project 84-86 , Laois Edcentre etc. He's created a Course on Authoring Software that was delivered to Trinity College Masters class. Prima...

First and foremost Conor is a "Digital Journeyman" He Lectures & teaches green & sustainable education, public policy, technology in education, and research methods programmes at UCD. His Interests include sustainable development, policy networks, professional knowledge, and the impact of new and emergent technology on learning and society.  Research at the moment is taking place unde...

Developed some interest in the idea of computers in my schooldays – notably around the beginning of the 1960s. Faraday lecture on “Transistors and all that”; talk to my class – we all had to give one if I recall correctly – on “the binary system (not in the maths curriculum then) and computers” [anecdote on my parents’ different reactions] Did my degree in Maths in Trinity in the early 1960s. Grad...

Adrienne Webb taught Mathematics, Geography and ICT at St. Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas for more than 30 years.  Recently she stepped down from her role as Chair of CESI, which she held for over eleven years.  She has a Masters Degree in Education (Digital Learning) DCU. As part of IT 2000, she was both Project Officer and National Coordinator of the Schools Integration...

Michael is a former primary school teacher who has over 25 years’ experience working in the field of digital education. He developed his interest in digital education in the early 1980s as an undergraduate student teacher in Coláiste Mhuire, Marino by playing with the college’s newly acquired Apple Macintosh computer. His first research project focused on the use of a BBC Micro in Irish primary sc...

We are very lucky to get Pam on the CESI Staffroom, to say that she's busy is a huge understatment, Pam is a lecturer in the Information Technology Department on the Thurles campus of the Technological University of the Shannon.  She is the organiser of the annual ICT in Education conference and has been a mentor in CoderDojo since 2011.  She has also mentored the Youth Media Team since...

The Recap:   Russel Tarr, Kate Kogge, Ewan McIntosh, Kate Molloy and Joe Dale all featured on Season2 of the CESI staffroom. All these episodes are available where ever you download your podcast from, just type CESI Staffroom.    The email address for the Staffroom is : Staffroom@cesi.ie   My Email Address : hdabbagh@cesi.ie  The email address for the YouTube Channel...

This is a sneak peak into this month CESI Staffroom with Ewan McIntosh and Mags Amond .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ewan: Ewan founded consulting firm NoTosh a decade ago from his kitchen table in Edinburgh, growing it to offices in around the world. He and his team work with people in schools, universities and companies to help them identify and overcome their greatest challenges, to work better together and rethink the environment in which they learn. https://colinalearning.com/ Mags: a retired teacher, &nbsp...

A sneak peak into Next Weeks EP of @cesitweets Staffroom, we talk all things #teachmeet with @ewanmcintosh and @magsamond ..... oh yeah.... and building the best school in the world. it's Another good one, please like and share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate Kogge has been teaching for seven years and is a science educator from Charlottesville, Virginia. During her time within Albemarle County Public Schools, she has developed interdisciplinary, community-centered projects alongside her talented colleagues and students, oftentimes in collaboration with businesses and nonprofit organizations in the region. In recent years, Kate and her team have p...

Kate Molloy is a Learning Technologist with the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at NUI Galway and is currently the NUI Galway lead on the Irish Universities Association Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning project. Prior to taking up this role at NUI Galway, Kate had been a secondary English teacher in both the United States and Ireland for over a decade. As a teacher, she became...

Joe Dale joins us In this months Podcast we talk tech, twitter and best practices when it comes to using tech in school, in particular the use of Ed Tech when it comes to teaching languages . Joe is an Educator, Technologist & Podcaster. Joe is based in the UK and according to his twitter he's an independent languages consultant with 13 years of teaching experience who works with a range of or...

Guest & Creator of "The Blog on the Bog"  Joe Molloy Retired Primary School Teacher Born in Dublin Guest bio My late Uncle Tony taught me how to solder when I was 11 years old and it had a major influence on my life.  I have been interested in electronics ever since. I am a Raspberry Pi enthusiast. Coderdojo champion and mentor. Vintage radio and  Acorn / BBC micro restorer. I w...

We got to chat with Russel Tarr to talk tech and teaching, we also find out what Tech he's using and most excited about.  ActiveHistory.co.uk is the work of Russel Tarr. Head of History at the International School of Toulouse . Prior to this he worked at Wolverhampton Grammar School . he has a degreee in Modern History from Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford University . he's also a fully-qualified...

Jane McGarrigle Project officer with the Webwise programme, this was the perfect end to our series on internet security, we focused on the human side to Cyber Security and safety in this interview we also spoke about the great resources that are available to teachers and students and how Parents are an important part to this equation.  I loved this interview because after we spoke about the r...

In This CESI Staffroom we are joined by Hani Dabbagh, Although this episode is not technically classed as Cyber Security, I still feel it has security aspects, I feel the information we give away (unknowingly) and how it's used can be deemed in some-cases to be an invasion of privacy.  The Link to Hani's FULL blog post and more can be found on his blog, click here .  You'll want to have...

Tom Lonergan is the National Coordinator for Technology integration for schools in Ireland.   We talk Passwords, security and broadband. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this weeks CESI Staffroom we got the opportunity to speak with Vince Scheivert according to his twitter BIO he’s a Promoter of EDU needs in a cyber security world. Dad, Philly Sports Enthusiast, and avid sport fisherman. We got to speak to him about Cyber Security and deploying devices to students, we also got to talk about a very interesting project that he worked on which had to do with exten...

Tony is a Kiwi teacher living and working in Ireland he's also NCCA Education Officer http://ncca.ie/en/  mentor @CoderDojoCavan #STEAMroom guy @lackenns (Taken straight from his twitter bio)  And...  a Nice Guy! CESI Staffroom Webinar (The Questions)  00.00.00 Intro 00:36:00 Who or what triggered your interest in the educational use of technology? 00:37:34 What is your primary...

CESI Staffroom Webinar EP4 is now up on YouTube. Dermot Walsh, Helen O'Kelly and guest presenter Dr. Richard Millwood . Richard spoke to Dermot and Helen about Knowledge Creation and what it is, as well as what it means to you the teacher. Richard asks the question “what is this Knowledge that we are creating? “ Full Video available on YouTube Resources & Mentions https://blog.richardmillwood....

CESI Staffroom Webinar ep3 is now up on YouTube. Dermot Walsh, Helen O'Kelly and guest presenter Michael McNamara from the PDST. Michael spoke to Dermot and Helen about some amazing resources available on the PDST website. pdst.ie/blendedlearning https://www.pdst.ie/DistanceLearning https://www.webwise.ie/ https://www.pdst.ie/primary/healthwellbeing/distancelearning https://www.pdst.ie/primary/hea...

This episode of the CESI staffroom is an extension of the last webinar “Pedagogy and the educational use of tech” link here (https://youtu.be/fq6kWqGWrts) .  In the webinar I mentioned a mother and daughter duo that started an instagram channel called “sign a day” and how I was hooked. The aim of the Instagram channel is to promote sign language for September (deaf awareness moth) but the pop...