Post-Primary Schools nationwide to receive High-Speed Broadband

[Adrienne Webb]

Post-Primary Schools nationwide to receive High-Speed Broadband
Minister Eamon Ryan TD has launched the 100mpbs Post Primary Schools Project, which will deliver high-speed broadband connectivity to second level schools across the country.

Just noticed this announcement on the NCTE website www.ncte.ie  It includes the list of 78 schools chosen at this stage.  You could be one of the lucky ones!

Adrienne Webb

[Fergal O'Neill]

Woooooo Hoooooooooo. We are in!!
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Fergal O'Neill
St Colmcille's Community School

Knocklyon

Dublin 16

Email: fergal...@gmail.com

2009/6/26 Adrienne Webb <aweb...@gmail.com>

[Sean Griffin]

Excellent stuff.

Now we can see what Irish people can achieve once they have the means to achieve it.

Good luck to all and especially the Bish in Galway...............my old school and I shall personally ensure the best of content is made available for online delivery here.

Have a great weekend.................all.  About time we saw some progression and it seems Minister Ryan delivers all the good news.......for some reason.

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[Cormac]

How were these schools selected for the Pilot Project?

Is there any timescale for allowing other schools in the same area as
pilot schools to join this high speed broadband network?

All schools, especially in urban areas, should have this high speed
broadband by now.

On Jun 26, 9:36 pm, Sean Griffin <sgrif...@learn-skills.org> wrote:
> Excellent stuff.
>
> Now we can see what Irish people can achieve once they have the means to
> achieve it.
>
> Good luck to all and especially the Bish in Galway...............my old
> school and I shall personally ensure the best of content is made available
> for online delivery here.
>
> Have a great weekend.................all.  About time we saw some
> progression and it seems Minister Ryan delivers all the good news.......for
> some reason.
>

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Adrienne Webb <awebb1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > *Post-Primary Schools nationwide to receive High-Speed Broadband*

> > [image: Broadband image]Minister Eamon Ryan TD has launched the 100mpbs
> > Post Primary Schools Project, which will deliver high-speed broadband
> > connectivity to second level schools across the country.
>

> > Just noticed this announcement on the NCTE websitewww.ncte.ie It

[Ronan Herron]

Yaay, St Aidan's in Brookfield made the list!!

Ronan Herron

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[Morgan Finucane]

This is a great initiative especially with VLE's and Digital Content
becoming more and more prevalent in schools. For example Scholaris in
the cloud is a very cost effective VLE especially when the costs can
be spread across many schools. However it now creates another issue
where we have gone from schools with standard broadband and poor
broadband to another band of schools with an "elite" connection. This
will create a further digital divide. The positive is that things
have been done to improve the lot of some, this will enable companies
like Net Communications to offer better solutions to schools at more
cost effective rates and hopefully we will then see a roll out of high
speed broadband to all schools as VLE's and Content moves forward. The
benefit of this is that PC's in the classroom can be replaced with
Thin Client, Software can be bought as a service and school teachers
no longer need to invest large volumes of time in ICT, they can spend
more time using the technology! In fact, as a parent, I welcome school
books being presented in my childrens portal - it would save me a
fortune.

On 26 June, 17:41, Adrienne Webb <awebb1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Post-Primary Schools nationwide to receive High-Speed Broadband*

> [image: Broadband image]Minister Eamon Ryan TD has launched the 100mpbs Post
> Primary Schools Project, which will deliver high-speed broadband
> connectivity to second level schools across the country.
>

> Just noticed this announcement on the NCTE websitewww.ncte.ie It includes

[Sean Griffin]

Hi Morgan,

At least we will soon have a choice and I am all for kids not transporting this weight of books daily to school from a manual handling and environmental perspective.

As with standard ebooks...the choice will be their for the student but an parent that doesn't encourage a child's early participation in the use of IT is doing them a diservice.

Teachers will also need to prepare for students studying bejond the core curriculum also since all of this information is available online already and as with traditional teaching the good students wont wait for the week............How many chapters ahead in maths were you?

Parents need to play an active role here also and ensure there children are getting the education and knowledge essential for them to succeed.

I think Net Communication will have much to offer both Primary and Secondary Education soon and I look forward to this.

Regards,

Sean