Project Blogger is an educational initiative in

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

Discover Science & Engineering Discover Science & Engineering (DSE) is an Irish Government initiative that aims to increase interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) among students, teachers and members of the public in Ireland. DSE’s mission is to ...

(DSE). It provides blogging tools and an online space for

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

students and their teachers to create blogs about their school

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

experiments and science interests. Through the

blog A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...

s, the students can share their experiences about science with their classmates, as well as with students from other schools across

. The scheme was piloted in the 2007–08 academic year and was extended the following year. DSE has also teamed up with Scifest for students to use Project Blogger in their SciFest projects. The students use their online science diaries to store ongoing project results, images, ideas, graphs, video and discussions.Article on Science.ie
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External links

SciFest
– official website of SciFest
Discover-Science.ie
– official website of Discover Science & Engineering (DSE)
Hindi Help Guide
– official website of Hindi Help Guide Science education in Ireland Science and technology in the Republic of Ireland