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Mitch Resnick - What are people creating and learning with Scratch?
Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, The Department of Computing IT Tallaght and South Dublin County Council were delighted that Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab presented and participated in a round table discussion: What are people creating and learning with Scratch? on Tuesday 1st May 2012.
The event formed part of the celebration of ITT Dublin's twenty years serving South Dublin County and the greater Dublin area.
See also, the round table discussion which followed Mitch's presentation.
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Round table discussion on Scratch with Mitch Resnick
Following Mitch's presentation on Tuesday 1st May 2012 at the County Library, a round table discussion took place on Scratch, its future and its use across all the education sectors in Ireland. Along with members of the audience the participants included:
Mitch Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. He is interested in exploring how new technologies can engage people in creative learning experiences. Resnick's research group developed the "programmable brick" technology that inspired the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit. He co-founded the Computer Clubhouse project, a worldwide network of after-school centers where youth from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies. Resnick's group also developed Scratch, an online community where children program and share interactive stories, games, and animations.
Amos Blanton
Scratch Community Coordinator, MIT.
Champika Fernanda
Lead developer of the Scratch 2.0 website, MIT.
Clare McInerney is the Education and Outreach Officer at Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, based at the University of Limerick. One of the goals of the outreach programme is to introduce programming into schools and to provide support for teachers and students. The scratch.ie website hosts free teaching resources for teachers and students. To encourage interest in Scratch we also run an annual Irish Scratch competition.
Stephen Howell
Stephen Howell is a Computer Science lecturer in the Department of Computing in IT Tallaght having formerly been a software engineer for IBM. He has research interests in the development of psychometric educational games. Stephen has used Scratch as a tool for evangelising computational thinking over the past five years. He recently developed free software linking Scratch to Microsoft’s Kinect allowing for great interactivity in Scratch projects. The software is used in schools and universities internationally. Stephen has been an invited speaker and presented at CESI 2012, Carnegie Mellon Art & Code Conference 2011, Scratch@MIT 2012 and Scratch Day Espana, Madrid 2011.
Barry Feeney
Barry Feeney is Head of Computing at ITT, Dublin in Tallaght.
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Sebastian Barry - Pt 1 - Readers' Day 2011
Author of amongst other titles, "On Canaan's Side", "The Secret Scripture" and "A Long Long Way" in conversation with Dermot Bolger,
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Sebastian Barry - Pt 2
Sebastian Barry - Pt 3
Claire Keegan - Pt 1
Claire Keegan, author of "Antarctica" "Walk the Blue Fields" and "Faster" at Readers' Day 2011
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Claire Keegan - Pt 2
David McWilliams - Pt 1 - Readers' Day 2011
Author of "The Pope Children", "In Search of the Pope's Children" and "Follow the Money" in conversation with Dermot Bolger
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David McWilliams Pt 2
David McWilliams - Pt 3
Blue Tango - Eoin McNamee and Keith Donald - Pt 1
Eoin McNamee reads from his novel, "Blue Tango" accompanied by Keith Donald on saxaphone
Readers' Day 2011
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Blue Tango - Eoin McNamee and Keith Donald - Pt 2
Gerry Stembridge Pt 1
Reading from his latest novel, "Unspoken" at Readers' Day 2011
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Gerard Stembridge Pt 2
Anna May Mangan Pt 1
Anna May Mangan discusses her book "Me and Mine:A Warm -Hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family with Dermot Bolger during Readers' Day 2011
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Anna May Mangan Pt 2
Readers' Day 2011
Dermot Bolger's introduction and preamble to Readers' Day
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Readers' Day 2011
Introduction by the Mayor of South Dublin County Council(2011), Catriona Jones
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Looking at Tallaght through Math's Eyes - iWalk
Looking at Tallaght through Mathematical Eyes is a community initiative to develop the math's eyes of the community in Tallaght so that everyone can appreciate the many ways we use maths each day.
Take the walk and exercise both your body and your Math's Eyes!
The accompanying map guide is available here.
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Appovation Competition presentation by Mike Creaven, Vodafone Ireland
The Appovation Competition launched during Innovation Dublin 2010 moved to its next phase on February 2 in the County Library in Tallaght when the Appovation workshop took students through the components of developing a successful mobile phone app. The basic idea for your app, its intended audience and the type of business plan needed were examined and developed.
The Appovation competition promises to unleash the innovative potential of second and third level level students in the South Dublin area.
This podcast is the soundtrack of the presentation delivered by Mike Creaven of Vodafone Ireland. The presentation, the App Proposition Template and the Business Case Template which are mentioned in the podcast are available at http://computing.it-tallaght.ie/appovation
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Readers' Day 2010 - Peter Sheridan
Based on 2 volumes of memoirs, Peter conjures up voices and accents from his 1960's childhood
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Readers' Day 2010 - Sheila O'Flanagan and June Considine
Both authors discuss their latest books and discuss how books by female authors are viewed, reviewed and categorized.
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Readers' Day 2010 - John Lonergan
John Lonergan - former governor of Mountjoy Prison -talks about growing up in Tipperary and life in the prison service
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Readers' Day 2010 - Arlene Hunt
Arlene hunt - author of a series of Dublin-based crime thrillers talks about the current rise of Irish crime fiction
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Readers' Day 2010 - Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy - author of A Goat's Song (1994), A Fools' Errant (his 4th collection of poetry) and his latest novel, Long Time No See
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Readers' Day 2010 - Padraig J Daly
Padraig J. Daly - author of the 2007 collection of poetry "Clinging to the Myth", priest and poet in conversation with Dermot Bolger
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Joe Horan speaks with Katherine Zappone on the subject of Leadership
Joe Horan, South Dublin County Manager and Katherine Zappone, Director of the Centre for Progressive Change, two leaders with a great interest in fostering change discuss the concept and practice of Leadership.
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Colum McCann in conversation with John Kelly
A truncated version of Colum McCann and John Kelly in conversation at the County Library Tallaght, on Thursday 22nd April 2010 is now available here. Apologies for the poor sound quality which is due to technical problems experienced on the day. The conversation is also available as a video. Just select Videos rather than Podcasts from the menu.
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Part 1 - The Right Hook Show, 21st April 2010
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he Right Hook Show was broadcast from the County Library, Tallaght on Wednesday 21st April 2010. Part 1 of the show is carried here courtesy of The Right Hook Show and Newstalk 106 - 108.
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Part 2 - The Right Hook Show, 21st April 2010
The Right Hook Show was broadcast from the County Library, Tallaght on Wednesday 21st April 2010. Part 2 of the show is carried here courtesy of The Right Hook Show and Newstalk 106 - 108.
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Part 3 - The Right Hook Show, 21st April 2010
The Right Hook Show was broadcast from the County Library, Tallaght on Wednesday 21st April 2010. Part 3 of the show is carried here courtesy of The Right Hook Show and Newstalk 106 - 108.
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Readers Day 2009
Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD, talks about the issues discussed in his latest book, Occasions of Sin:Sex and Society in Modern Ireland.
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Readers Day 2009
Paul Howard, award-winning journalist, author and creator of the cult character, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly reads from his latest book and discusses the life of his most famous fictional character
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Readers Day 2009
Paula Meehan, one of Ireland's most acclaimed living poets in conversation with Dermot Bolger about her life and work.
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Readers Day 2009
Dutch poet and soprano, Judith Mok reads Auschwitz Revisited - a remembrance of those within her own family who perished in the death camp.
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Readers Day 2009
John Curran, author of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, talks about the uncovering of the 73 plain exercise books in which Christie worked out details of her plots.
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Readers Day 2009
New Dublin Voices
Kevin Power (author of Bad Day in Blackrock) and Chris Binchy (author of Open-Handed) reading from their books and in conversation with Dermot Bolger.
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Readers Day 2009
Introduction and opening remarks by the Mayor of South Dublin County Council, Mick Duff.
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