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TACCLE2 won a national award in Portugal

I have the pleasure to inform that, thanks to the great job of all the TACCLE2 team, the TACCLE2 project has been awarded at Portugal a very distinguished prize by the FCT, the National Funding Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. An award on Inclusion and Digital Literacy. The prize money (50.000€) will allow the  Full Article…

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Brushbots

Woohoo! Have spent the last few days being miserable with flu so to cheer myself up have been making toothbrush robots and racing them with my grandchildren. Bought the components ages ago but it took till today to actually get them out of the box… You will need: Some old toothbrushes (personally I have found  Full Article…

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Digital Bytes

I have been a fan of Common Sense Media for some time and I’m really impressed with their new initiative called Digital Bytes. In their own words: “Digital Bytes teaches teens digital citizenship through student-directed, media-rich activities that tackle real-world dilemmas. Teens learn from the experiences of their peers then create collaborative projects that voice  Full Article…

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How old is a tree?

Not really e-learning but thought I’d share this anyway – a great idea for really understanding how old trees are as well as getting some sense of history.  You could hype it up a bit by getting the birds in the tree tweeting to each other about what they could see at any point in  Full Article…

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TACCLE2 Launch Conference – Material

The TACCLE2 Launch Conference was successfully held in Brussels on 17 October 2014 with 170 participants from allover Europe. You can find all relevant material and presentations below: Plenary session Introduction to the TACCLE2 project Jenny Hughes Key-note Catherine Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway) Open to possibility: Networked learning with our students. http://www.slideshare.net/cicronin/networked-learning-with-our-students Panel  Full Article…

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