{"id":222,"date":"2010-10-16T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/connect-school-project-question-to-sdcc\/"},"modified":"2010-10-16T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:29:37","slug":"connect-school-project-question-to-sdcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/connect-school-project-question-to-sdcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect School Project Question to SDCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL<\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 11, 2010<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION NO. 2<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>QUESTION: Councillor S. Crowe<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>In view of the clear success of the Connect project can the Manager outline  in\u00a0financial terms the projected investment that this Council will have  injected into the project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REPLY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/connect.southdublin.ie\/connect\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=61&amp;Itemid=250\" target=\"_blank\">Connect  School<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Connect School Project at St Aidan&#8217;s Community School, Brookfield,  Tallaght is a five year multi-agency project funded by South Dublin County  Council. 2010 is the fifth and final year of the project.<\/p>\n<p><span>Project Partners <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Education and Science <\/li>\n<li>NCTE <\/li>\n<li>Dublin West Education Centre <\/li>\n<li>IT Tallaght <\/li>\n<li>St Aidan&#8217;s Community School, Brookfield, Tallaght.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Project aims to improve school attendance, participation in class,  and the educational outcomes of students through the use of ICT in Education.<\/p>\n<p>Since September 2006, Laptops have been provided to all Teachers and  all incoming 1st Year Students. Data Projectors have been installed in every  classroom and a wireless network has been installed throughout the school.  \u00a0An eChampion is based in the school to support teacher and students.<\/p>\n<p>The Teachers of St Aidan&#8217;s, led by School Management and a Core Group  of ICT literate Teachers, have developed a Virtual Learning Environment using  Moodle. This allows Teachers to deliver subject specific material in class using  Moodle, the ubiquitous internet connection and Data Projectors.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.southdublin.ie\/connect\/images\/stories\/d\/connect%20school%20evaluation%20report_final%20%282%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Evaluation<\/a> of the Project was launched in May 2010 by \u00a0the Minister for  Communications, Energy &amp; Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan T.D. \u00a0The  Evaluation outlines positive findings and guidelines for the future development  of the use of technology in schools. The Evaluation Framework developed as part  of this work will guide the Connect School in future reviews.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the use of Laptops daily throughout the School there are  many interesting subprojects: the use of eBooks from Gill and Macmillan for  History and Geography is being piloted and a Community of Practice is now being  established to develop ICT skills and subject related material amongst  teachers.<\/p>\n<p>St Aidan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Community School is one of the schools benefiting from the  increase in\u00a0 broadband provision to 100 MB high speed connection as part of  the Knowledge Society Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that the total cost of this five year project will be  approximately \u00e2\u201a\u00ac750,000 which covers the purchase of laptops for all pupils  over the five year period and the salary costs of the E-Champion.\u00a0\u00a0The  cost is less than the original estimate because of the reduction in the  purchasing cost of the ICT hardware and the use of free Open Source software.  The project which is unique in educational terms will have long lasting benefits  for the school and the surrounding community. Positive outcomes of the project  include increased attendance, improved academic achievement and a reduction in  disciplinary incidences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL Monday, October 11, 2010 QUESTION NO. 2 QUESTION: Councillor S. Crowe \u00a0 In view of the clear success of the Connect project can the Manager outline in\u00a0financial terms the projected investment that this Council will have injected into the project? 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