Educamp Ireland
Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland
Meet primary and post-primary educators from throughout Ireland as we conduct a day-long series of presentations and break-out sessions on the grounds of Tipperary Institute, Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. The third level campus sits alongside the main rail lines to Cork, Dublin and Limerick and the venues are signposted on all existing paved side roads that intersect the N8 between Littleton, Turnpike to Horse and Jockey. A helipad is located behind the Tipperary Technology Park, marked prominently with the Premier County colours.
Educamp extends the Edtech theme from the standard series of presentations run by the Irish Learning Technology Association and borrows some of the enthusiasm of the e-learning support team at the Dublin Institute of Technology to deploy into 2007 through a collaborative wiki. Props to Tom Raftery for promoting the Barcamp Ireland through his technology blog and activist energy with IT@Cork.
This is Ireland's first Educamp. It will focus less on bitching about the Department of Education and Science and more on getting free technology, leveraging local IT expertise and exploring low-cost effective information technology for schools without money. We will have Fair Trade coffee flowing free all day, healthy food on single pole tables and curry chips for lunch.
We will try to keep this entire event free but if you want a free lunch, you have to pre-register and display a branded name tag instead of money to the cashier in the cafeteria. Free curry chips will be served to anyone wearing a Tipperary strip.
Check out the Session Ideas below, add some of your own, and please sign up if you'd like to attend!
Following a ring-around of the usual suspects, this day-long event will be locked down for early June 2007, probably Thursday, 7 June 2007.
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2007 (To Be Confirmed)
Venue: Tipperary Institute
Nenagh Road
Thurles
County Tipperary
Ireland
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Traveling to Thurles by Rail
Car Pooling
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EduCamp Ireland Schedule
We expect to have opening comments for a seated audience at 1000 and closing comments at 1530. All other activities will occur in break-out presentations in separate rooms accommodating up to 25 attendees in computer labs or lecture rooms.
Media Sharing and Tags
Upload all photos to Flickr, all presentations to Slideshare, all videos to Youtube; use the tag EducampIreland
Attending
Bernie Goldbach, ICT Programme Specialist from Tipperary Institute
