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With classes finally at an end for the class of 2026, the textbooks shown here have also come to what I hope is a dignified end (though one of them has managed to reinvent itself very stylishly for the new era). As some of you will know, I had a part to play in one of these (for Edco) and these are my scattered thoughts from my experience with that book, in no particular order: First off, publishing a book is a big undertaking, that involves a very significant investment fro

I just uploaded a possible end-of-year activity that's fun and (somewhat) educational and that was shared by the always entertaining Kate Urell. It challenges students to match famous scientists with the appropriate story: so, for example, which famous physicist married his first cousin? What astronomer had a gold nose? Whose mother was tried for witchcraft, distracting him from his untangling of the universe (but also providing a fascinating back story when he (possibly) inv

Some of you may have come across this at a few Oide events this year, but I thought it was worth sharing here - not least because it's a free, open-source, non-commercial resource, and the more of them we have the better! Kudos to Doug Brown for creating this. I understand he is a teacher in the underappreciated US Community College system, in Cabrillo College in California. Essentially, the software allows you to create graphs directly from video. The homepage is here: Tra

IOP Physics Hub on Thursday 30 April at 7pm online looks at adapting TY Physics in the light of the AAC at Leaving Cert and in the light of the two LC Physics Specimens Papers. Several presenters will share their thoughts. Book now at Events | IOPSpark or IOP Ireland 30 April 26 Hub

Reposting this link to our TY Resources page with a few updates.... TY Physics | PhysicsResourceBank One new addition relates to the AAC, with a list of project ideas from the old Coursework B. For those of you to whom that means nothing - it was required coursework for Junior Cycle students, with three titles published each year, from which students would select two. On those, they then had to design and complete an experiment and compile a report. I know it has been used b

I was fascinated to discover yesterday that, whereas the UK will be switching to Daylight Savings Time at 1.00 am tonight - going one hour ahead of GMT, Ireland won't be! Instead, we'll simply revert to Irish Standard time (which - perhaps not entirely coincidentally - is also designed to run one hour ahead of GMT). Kudos to the Grand Auld Stretch on Blue Sky for educating me on this: Post by @ theauldsthretch.bsky.social — Bluesky Apparently, it was the Germany who first i