Cork Report 2007/2008

PEAI Conference 2007

The PEAI Conference and Annual General Meeting was held on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th October 2007 and hosted by University College Cork.  A large attendance of approximately 100 was present with PE teachers, undergraduates, and third level represented.

The conference programme comprised a number of items including the launch of the PEAI advocacy resource, a practical workshop dealing with special education needs in physical education, an experiential adventure education workshop focused on communication, an introduction to korfball a unique mixed gender invasion game and also insights into how a number of schools presented physical education and school sport in their individual school contexts. The keynote address on Friday night looked at Whole School Evaluation and the physical education inspection process.  The PEAI Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday morning with an attendance of 70

Cork Dartfish Project 2008

Five teacher in the Cork area met on two occasions to learn how to use Dartfish software and use it to explore its potential within PE class. This has led to a stronger understanding of the practicalities of the use of digital media and the range of areas of study in which it ca be used. Holgar Goertz was the co-ordinator of this project, with Timmy Murphy, Marian Carey, Celeste Sheehan and Des Golden the teachers involved. Mike Carey oversaw the project on behalf of the PEAI executive. There is huge potential to draw from the findings of this project in the coming years