I was recently invited to attend the Intel education Summit in Sweden. This blog posting cites the four best presentations from my point of view on teaching and learning.

Some personal and professional thoughts on cyber-bullying as a secondary/high-school teacher in Ireland.

Issues in Ireland and beyond with student data....

We are beginning to dip our toes in the water in Ireland where e/digital Portfolios are concerned. This is a blog post I wrote on a poster from Scotland on ePortfolios. Scroll down and look at the individual elements of a portfolio - excellent!

This is a blog posting on five really short social-media ground-rules I recommended to parents for their children just starting secondary / high school this term. Teachers seemed to like them - the link was retweeted a number of times!

I was somewhat taken aback by the interest in my last blog posting entitled "The first ever BYOD (not BYOT) class I taught…" I have now analyzed it against a piece by Earnie Kramer called "Thinking about embracing Bring Your Own Device in your school?"

This is a narrative account with some reflection on the first time I used "Bring Your Own Device" BYOD in Class - I touch on the difference with BYOT, where Device is replaced by Technology. The class is Irish First-year - Seventh Grade USA? Students aged about 13.

This is an important contribution to the discussion of Open Access 

One of the speakers at TedxDublin spoke engagingly about the importance of Fundamental Science. I ask - What is fundamental education?

Can you enforce a policy for parents/guardians of school-children? i would like to hear your answers. Thank you!

I am participating in European SchoolNet's SMILE programme. It is a Facebook sponsored project around digital citizenship. This is a very short introduction.

This is my latest blog post - it is about my draft ICT / Social media policy for secondary (high) schools. You can read and comment on it here. I would really like your feedback. Here is an excerpt! My primary source was Katie Lepi's Crowdsourced School Social Media Policy Now Available (here). Her work is based on over four-hundred crowd sourced edits! I have specifically included her in the Creative Commons license. I was also influenced by Doug Belshaw's Acceptable Use Policy - feedback required! (here).The comments on his posting are very interesting! I was inspired by Max Senge's A hippocratic Oath for Techies & Policymakers (here). Its simplicity is its strength!

Read - You will be impressed

Some comments on the 2012 Horizon Report k-12 from the perspective of a Secondary-school teacher in Ireland. I particularly like the strong line it takes on "the system" ....As long as maintaining the basic elements of the existing system remains the focus of efforts to support education, there will be resistance to any profound change in practice. Page 10.

The Teaching Council (Ireland) has published a Draft Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers - I have examined it under four headings in the context of eLearning,

The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has just published Let's Read Them a Story! The Parent Factor in Education. The document is worth looking at in its own right both as educators and as parents. I have one quibble with it - which you may read about in my blog-post. Thanks!

A comment on the idea that senior teachers in the Republic of Ireland might join the schools Inspectorate for short fixed periods.

Just some thoughts on an article by David Jaffe of the University of North Florida....The title is his!

Some thoughts on Plagiarism. I would really appreciate comments from any Secondary/High School teacher who has used plagiarism filters. Thank you!

The HASTAC Scholars recently published a blog post entitled Pedagogical Ethics for a Digital Age (here). This blog-post is a reaction to it....