Angela Rickard

M.A., H.Dip.Ed.,

01 708 3453
angela.rickard@nuim.ie

Angela Rickard lectures in Educational technology on the Professional Diploma in Education and on the BScEd programme.

She is the Programme Director in the Republic of Ireland of Dissolving Boundaries - a programme funded by the Department of Education and Science involving nearly 200 primary, post-primary and special schools in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Dissolving Boundaries uses online and video-conferencing technology to facilitate cross-cultural educational links between schools in the North and South of Ireland and has been in existence since 1999: www.dissolvingboundaries.org

Angela developed and manages the Education Resource Centre. She has also developed a number of initiatives in the Education Department involving the use of digital video to promote student autonomy, reflection, collaboration and creativity.

Research interests

• Using digital video for student teacher reflection, collaboration and creativity
• Online collaboration among teachers and school pupils, in particular the development of cultural awareness through online collaboration and video-conferencing
• Resource creation, use and evaluation in the context of developing student teachers’ information literacy skills
• Web 2.0 Technologies for teaching (especially language teaching)

Conference Papers / Public Presentations

The transformative effects of inter/viewing teachers about their practice: interim report on the Vitall project Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference, 29-31 March, 2012.

Video Ideas for Teaching and Learning Languages (VITALL): a partnership approach to teacher education, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference, 14-16 April, 2011 Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, Dublin.

DiViATE Lessons for Teacher Educators: presentation to staff in the Faculty of Education at the National College of Art and Design, Thomas Street, Dublin 16th September 2010

McAvinia, C., Grummell, B., Rickard, A., Reid, K., Kenny. M. and Murphy C. (2010) Educating for Climate Change: developing students’ understanding of the local impacts of climate Change at Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference, 25-27 March, 2010 Dundalk, Co. Louth

Development Education: fostering student collaboration in NUI Maynooth Presentation to Ubuntu Network Dialogue Day 22nd February 2010, St. Angela’s College, Lough Gill, Sligo.

“Digital Video in Teacher Education: disruption and reflection in the culture of teaching practice” European Conference on Educational Research: ECER 2008 Gothenburg 11th September 2008

"Social networking, as a pedagogic tool: linking schools in Asia and Europe to support classroom project work." Teaching and Learning 2008, International Association for Scientific Knowledge (IASK), University of Aveiro, Portugal, 27th May 2008

Digital Video in Teacher Education (DiViATE) 18th April 2008 Teacher Education Seminar the University of Ulster, Coleraine

“Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education 2000 – 2006” International conference on the role of ICT in Bridge-building and Social Inclusion Monday 11th Sept 2006 in the University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus

Publications

with R. Austin, J. Smyth and A. Grace (2011)  Crossing the Frontier: Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education Report 2011. Coleraine: University of Ulster

Austin, R., J. Smyth, A. Rickard, N. Quirk-Bolt, and N. Metcalfe, (2010) 'Collaborative digital learning in schools: teacher perceptions of purpose and effectiveness', Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 19: 3, 327-343 [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/1475939X.2010.513765]

with R. Austin, J. Smyth, M. Mallon, N. Metcalfe and A. Grace (2010) Enterprise, ICT and intercultural learning An Interim Report on the Dissolving Boundaries/Joint Business Council Enterprise Pilot Programme National University of Ireland, Maynooth September 2010

Rickard, A., N. Quirke-Bolt and C. McAvinia (2009) The Challenge of Change: Digital video-analysis and constructivist learning approaches on a one year pre-service teacher education programme in Ireland. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 17(3), 349-368.

Rickard, A and N. Quirke-Bolt (2009) Going 2 Secondary Evaluation Report The Educational Action Research Project, Athlone Community Taskforce [http://actathlone.ie/wp-content/themes/act/publications/g2s-report.pdf]

with R. Austin, J. Smyth, M. Mallon, P. Flynn, N. Metcalfe (2009) Cross-border digital school partnerships Dissolving Boundaries 1999-2009. Coleraine: University of Ulster

with N. Quirke-Bolt, N. Metcalfe, R. Austin, J. Smyth and M. Mallon, (2008) Making a Difference with ICT: Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education. Coleraine: University of Ulster

Quirke-Bolt, N. and A. Rickard (2008) "Social networking, as a pedagogic tool: linking schools in Asia and Europe to support classroom project work." Conference paper presented at Teaching and Learning 2008, International Association for Scientific Knowledge (IASK), University of Aveiro, Portugal, 2008.

with Austin, R., Metcalfe, N., Quirke-Bolt, N. (2007) Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education: Collaborative Learning Between Schools. Coleraine: University of Ulster

Rickard, A., Bongrand, A. & Delabre, C. (2006) Mosaïque: Higher Level Leaving Certificate French. Dublin: The Educational Company of Ireland

Rickard, A., Blin, Françoise & Appel, Christine (2006) “Training for Trainers: Challenges, Outcomes, and Principles of In-Service Training across the Irish Education System” in Teacher Education in CALL, Hubbard, Philip and Mike Levy (eds.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins pp. 203–218

Austin, R., Rickard, A., Metcalfe, N. & Quirke-Bolt, N. (2006) Building Communities of Practice: Dissolving Boundaries Research Report Coleraine University of Ulster

Rickard, A., (2004) “Oilte: Organising In-service Training for Languages & Technology in Education”, Teangeolas: the Journal of the Linguistics Institute of Ireland, 41: 15-19

Funded Research

Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education Programme
Dissolving Boundaries uses technology to facilitate cross-cultural educational links between schools in the North and South of Ireland. It is jointly funded by the two Departments of Education. www.dissolvingboundaries.org

Methodologies and Development Education (MADE in Maynooth)
Project funded by Irish Aid to promote the integration of Development Education in Initial Teacher Education.

Video Ideas in Teaching and Learning Languages (VITALL):
An NDLR supported project to create video resources to support pre-service and in-service professional development for language teachers. www.vitall.ie The project is a collaboration with the Post-Primary Languages Initiative (PPLI) and the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST).

Asia Europe Classroom Projects: National Centre for Technology in Education supported a number of small scale online projects aimed to link students from countries in Asia and Europe. The most recent project was http://gocybergreen.nuim.ie

Going2Secondary evaluation Athlone Community Taskforce French.ie (web-portal for teachers of French in Ireland) French Embassy and the National Centre for Technology in Education. See Publication

The Reality Project: an online social networking project on the theme of the Millennium Development Goals and linking student teachers and their pupils with partner schools in Kenya and North Dakota USA (with Nigel Quirke-Bolt)

Evaluating Resources for Development Education: Ubuntu network for Development Education in Teacher Education (with Rose Malone)

Conferences/workshops hosted

Maynooth Educational Technology Showcase (METS) A one-day educational technology professional development day for staff and student teachers in NUIM - held April 25th 2012 (and previously on April 14th 2011) with support from the Centre for Teaching and Learning NUI Maynooth, the Professional Development Service for teachers (PDST) and Typetec Ireland.

French.ie workshop on Integrating ICT in the French Classroom: February 2008 (and previously in February 2007) supported by the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE)

Appraisal of Potential for Teaching Final International meeting of the APT project (Comenius 2.1): 14th to 17th September 2006

External Assignments

Member of the Steering Committee of the UBUNTU Network – 2012

Member of the Department of Education and Science Advisory committee for the OECD’s Teachers, Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2009

Member of the Association du Français Appliqué