CESI conference - our thoughts and slides

Posted in: Blog, Education, News by James on February 10, 2010

We attended the Computers in Education Society of Ireland National Conference in Portlaoise College last Saturday. And what a hugely energizing day it was.

We won’t report on all the talks we attended here as the Twitter stream for #cesi2010 conveyed the essence of each presentation better than we could hope to recapture. Suffice it to say there wasn’t a dull note and each speaker provided much food for thought.

We have to say though that we particularly enjoyed the presentation by Anne McMurrough and Ban Ryan on “21st Century Classroom: Connecting teachers and children through ‘play’ technology - The Nintendo DS and Wii”. This was huge fun and the massive enthusiasm of the presenters rubbed off on everyone. Really inspirational stuff.

We did a presentation and workshop on Practical Virtual Worlds for Education which seemed to be well received and we certainly had some wonderful conversations with interested parties afterwards. We have published the slightly modified (more ‘readable’) slides here and embedded the smaller version below.

Huge credit is due to everyone involved in the CESI conference for organizing one of the very best days of the year. Roll on 2011.