Edco HearSay CD's for Junior and Leaving Certificate Students
In 2003, The Educational Company of Ireland (Edco), foremost publishers of exam papers for Junior and Leaving Certificate students, developed the HearSay CD Rom Resources.
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June 2011Eat Taste and Grow Launch
Combined Media have developed an interactive teaching resource for Safefood and the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. ‘Eat Taste and Grow’ aims to increase awareness among primary school children in Northern Ireland of the origins of their food and local produce, and the role this plays in healthy eating.
April 2011
Combined Media Design Moher Farm Touchscreen Kiosk
Combined Media collaborated with Touchpoint to create a state of the art touchscreen kiosk to be placed in the Moher Farm Visitor centre. Moher Farm (Co. Clare) is a well-known petting zoo in Ireland, and they decided to enlist the services of Combined Media and Touchpoint to create a more interactive visitor centre at their farm.
March 2010
Brand new web site for OCO.ie unveiled
The new web site for the Ombudsman for Children (www.oco.ie) is now live. The web site redesigned and redeveloped by Combined Media allows the user easy use and a welcoming design presenting the information in an interesting and accessible Content Management system.
February 2010
Digital Media Award Winner!
Last night, Combined Media received the "Best in e-Learning" Digital Media Award for their EDCO Digital teacher resource website for the Educational Company of Ireland (Edco).
August 2009
edcoDigital.ie & edcoExamCentre.ie Launch
edcoDigital.ie is a teachers resource site developed by Combined Media for the Educational Company of Ireland (EDCO) that allows teachers to access Irish curriculum-based textbooks in an easy-to-use online viewer to be shown on a large screen at the front of the classroom. The teacher is able to navigate through the books using the online digital tools and are also able to customise the books by adding links and bookmarking pages so they can return at a later date. It also provides a host of downloadable resources that complement the books such as; class plans, teacher notes, revision questions, powerpoints and podcasts.
edcoExamCentre.ie is an online test facility for Junior Cert & Leaving Cert students produced by Combined Media. The web site contains multiple choice quizzes and activities, are marked instantly and are ideal for revision.
May 2009
John B. Keane’s “Sive” with the RTE Guide
Combined Media have teamed up with the RTE Guide yet again to help celebrate 50 years of John B. Keane's Sive. To help celebrate the occasion the RTE Guide is giving a free CD Rom of their radio recording of the play, produced and designed by Combined Media. The CD Rom also includes student notes for Leaving Certificate students.
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October 2011 | In Education | Comments 0The last ‘Here’s one more thing’
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."
Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005.
April 2011 | In Education | Comments 0
Is the iPad made for Education or Business?
The initial perception on the iPad being just ‘a big iPhone’ has radically changed over the past twelve months.
“Now it is making serious inroads in the world of business, by enhancing relations between vendors and customers in ways only imagined before”