Teacher wins award for cyber time capsule

JAMSIE and Rena Power are no historians but they are giving children in a Waterford village a unique insight into growing up in the 1940s and 1950s.

Their memories were discussed with and recorded by fifth and sixth class pupils of Ballyduff National School, but their use of technology to share those memories on the internet scooped teacher John Carey a national award yesterday.

The website “Living in Ireland in My Grandparents’ Time” is one of more than 1,200 available to schools across all subjects through TeachNet. It is unique because it is designed by teachers for teachers and their students in the country’s 4,000 schools.