We are delighted to announce that Michael Hallisy, Learning Director of the Digital Hub and H2 Learning will be presenting our next webinar “Designing Engaging Game Making Workshops” at 7.00pm, Thursday, October 13th. For more details go to: http://missionv.ie/training/gbl-webinar-series

Bio:
Michael Hallissy is a founding partner with H2 Learning. He trained as a primary school teacher in... [read more]

We are delighted to announce that Michael Hallisy, Learning Director of the Digital Hub and H2 Learning will be presenting our next webinar “Designing Engaging Game Making Workshops” at 7.00pm, Thursday, October 13th. For more details go to: http://missionv.ie/training/gbl-webinar-series

Bio:
Michael Hallissy is a founding partner with H2 Learning. He trained as a primary school teacher in Coláiste Mhuire Marino in the mid 1980s and after teaching for two years emigrated to the US where he enrolled in Boston College’s M.Ed programme where his major focus was on education technology with a minor focus on assessment and learning. On returning to Ireland in 1994 he resumed his teaching duties. He was seconded by the Irish Department of Education in 1996 to assist them in developing their first ICT in education policy, Schools IT 2000. Subsequently he worked in the NCTE. Having spent five years in the NCTE he left in January 2002 and established H2 in August 2002.

Much of his work is focused on the creative use of ICTs in teaching and learning – particularly in using ICT in a constructivist manner. He is extremely interested in how technologies can improve student literacy, particularly their digital literacy. He is currently enrolled in the international EdD programme in the Institute of Education and he hopes to conduct research in the area of digital literacy and computer games. He believes computer games provides a great opportunity to create new forms of learning, particularly for students who are not engaged by traditional methods and approaches.

This GBL webinar series is run in partnership with the Game Based Learning Research Group based in Waterford Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Patrick Felicia, PhD.