educ8.ie is proud to launch the 2012 art competition for students of 1st and 2nd Class in schools in Limerick, Clare and Tipperary. The winning class will win their class school tour for Summer 2012.
The Winners School Tour
The winning class will win the following school tour:
10:00 Frank McCourt Museum Tour
11:00 Thomond Park Museum Tour
12:00 Lunch (provided as part of tour, healthy Carambola Kidz Lunch)
12:30 Delta Sports Dome
14:30 Back to School
To find out more visit the educ8.ie website for the entry form, and further details. The closing date is Friday, 30th March 2012 - so get painting!
The launch of the 2012 educ8.ie Art Competition at Thomond Park!
We have been very busy over the past few months preparing for an update to Know Your World. Today we are announcing that a new version of Know Your World will be available in a few weeks. All customers will be receiving details in the mail shortly, we will be offering upgrade prices for current Know Your World users, and schools that purchased recently will be looked after too.
Know Your World 2.0 offers some excellent new features and improvements which will be detailed over the coming weeks, so check back for news and updates on Know Your World 2.0.
Know Your World 2.0, coming very soon.
We are also looking forward to introducing a new feature we have been working on (clue in the screenshot above), it will be announced shortly, and we are really excited about it here at EdWare.
The Irish government introduced an increase in VAT, from 21% to 23% on December 06, 2011. This new VAT rate will come into force on January 01, 2012. This VAT rate will be applied to all our products sold within the European Union.
Unfortunately we have to pass this new VAT rate onto our customers. The price of our software will increase by 2%; we will issue our new price list later in the month of December 2011.
Beat the VAT increase! Order before the end of 2011 to avail of the current price list.
**UPDATE 01 Jan 2012**
The new VAT rate of 23% has now come into effect, the increase has been applied to our products.
An excellent time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan, Satoshi Furukawa
and the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from
August to October, 2011.
1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night
Thailand and Cambodia continue to cope with widespread flooding in November 2011. Many communities in Thailand had spent weeks under a meter (3 feet) or more of water, and floods had affected two-thirds of the country’s provinces.
Photo from November 12, 2008
Photo from November 01, 2011
Due to the floods thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands more have been made homeless. It is estimated that over 2.4 million people have been directly affected by the floods. There is also greater risk of disease due to pollution in the water and waterborne diseases.
Economically the floods have been devastating. The floods have affected rice crops, a main food source of the local people, but also a large export crop. Rice exports in Thailand account for one-third of the total global market. This could lead to a shortage in rice and a price increase worldwide.
The floods in Thailand have also affected the production of cars and electronic equipment, resulting in price increases for these items around the world. Over 50% of the world's hard drive production is based in Thailand. Hard drives are a vital component of computers and due to the floods there has been a worldwide shortage, increasing prices. Both Toyota and Honda have car production plants in Thailand which have been flooded, resulting in loss of production and millions of dollars of damage.
Flooded Western Digital factory, one of the largest hard drive manufactures.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was born at Lismore Castle, Co Waterford. Boyle is sometimes called The Father of Chemistry. In 1661, he published The Sceptical Chemist. Boyle questioned alchemy, the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. He taught that the proper object of chemistry was to determine the composition of substances. He coined the term ‘analysis’. In 1662, he formulated Boyle’s Law, which states that the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely related at constant temperature.
George Boole (1815-1864) was the first professor of mathematics at Queens College, Cork (University College Cork today). Boole, sometimes called The Father of Computer Science, developed his system of Boolean Algebra while in Cork. This is used today in the design and operation of electronic computers and electronic hardware responsible for modern technology. Intellectually, George was a child prodigy. He started school at the age of 1½. There is a lovely story of how he went missing one day at the age of 2½. After much searching, he was found in downtown Lincoln in the middle of an excited crowd. Individuals in the crowd were shouting out difficult words to the child as a spelling test. George was fluently and correctly spelling the words and being showered with coins in reward.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) was born in County Carlow. He became one of greatest scientists of the 19th century. Professor of natural philosophy (physics) at The Royal Institution, he did pioneering work on radiant heat, germ theory of disease, glacier motion, sound, and diffusion of light in the atmosphere. He was the first to explain how scattering of light in the atmosphere causes the blue colour in sky. He explained how the gases in the atmosphere trap heat and keep the earth warm. He invented the light pipe, which later led to the development of fibre optics.
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874 –1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer, one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Capt Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition, 1901–1904. He returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909, he and three companions made a southern march which established a record farthest south latitude at 88° 23′ S, 97 geographical miles (114 statute miles, 190 km) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. Also, he is known for the Endurance Expedition or The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917), its last major expedition. Along with his expedition, made the first ascent of Mount Erebus and the discovery of the approximate location of the south magnetic pole.
EdWare are exhibiting at the BETT 2012 Conference which is being hosted in London, come see us on 11-14 January, 2012.
EdWare will be in the Software Zone of the exhibition at stand SW35.
We will post further details here as we have them, we looking forward to meeting you all.
We are just back from BETT last week in London, we had a great time and delighted to meet the many people who visited our stand.
Some more photos from BETT 2012.
About BETT: BETT is the world’s leading event for educational technology where education professionals can evaluate and purchase a comprehensive range of ICT products and services. From early years to universities, BETT is an indispensable part of the annual knowledge-gathering process, coming at a time when establishments are planning and budgeting for the new school year.
EdWare is exhibiting at the IPPN Conference 2012. Visit us at stand D13, January 26-27 at Citywest Conference Centre, Dublin. I look forward to seeing you there.
Visit the IPPN Conference web page to find out more about the 2012 conference: http://conference.ippn.ie/
Friday, 27th January 2012 Education Expo Plenary Session Seminars / workshops Demos, Networks & Consultations Gala Dinner
Saturday, 28th January 2012 Plenary Session IPPN Prime Time Conference Closing
About the 2012 IPPN Conference: The theme of the 2012 Conference is ‘Forging a Future’ and Mary Robinson and Minister Ruairí Quinn are two keynote speakers who are confirmed to address this gathering of more than 1,200 principals.
EdWare is proud to be a founding member of a new schools supply co-operative serving schools in the mid-west region. Visit our website www.educ8.ie for further details and special offers that each member is providing.
You can also follow us or become a fan of the Facebook and Twitter sites too.
EdWare is exhibiting at the IPPN’s Professional Briefing Day for Principals which will be held on Wednesday, September 7th in Athlone. This is a conference organised by the IPPN for new principals, we look forward to seeing you there.
The findings of a new report from the National Assessment of Education Progress for Geography in the United States has just been published. They evaluated students in fourth, eighth, and twelfth grade based on their knowledge of geographic concepts and their ability to analyze geographic problems.
Nationally representative samples of about 7,000 fourth-graders, 9,500 eighth-graders, and 10,000 twelfth-graders participated in the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in geography. At each grade, students responded to questions designed to measure their knowledge of geography in the context of space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections. Comparing the results from the 2010 assessment to the results from previous assessments in 1994 and 2001 shows how students’ knowledge and skills in geography have changed over time.
The results are interesting, the scores of 4th graders improved, 8th graders remained the same, and 12th graders declined. Overall male students scored higher than female students at all three grades.
Click here to learn more and download the report.
We have also prepared a quick sample question for 4th graders on map skills of the United States. Download now, 94k file.
