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Guest Post: Capturing Creativity

by admin on 14/04/2013

Future Classroom LabAs a teacher, I am passionate about integrating ICT in educational settings. In particular, I am interested in how digital tools can really bring teaching and learning to life in creative, dynamic ways. Over the last few years, I’ve experimented with lots of ICT tools, some more challenging than others, leaving me keen to learn more! So I was delighted to recently join 17 European teachers at the Future Classroom Lab (FCL) in Brussels for a 2-day course on the Creative Use of Multi-Media and Devices in the Classroom. [click to continue…]

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Weave Silk Art

by admin on 11/04/2013

Weave SilkTwitter is great! Last night Bianca Ní Ghrógáin (@groganbee) Tweeted a link to this visual art website called Weave Silk. As next week is Digital Art Week, I decided to let my pupils have a go at creating some digital art using the site. They’ve had great fun using the site for homework and posting their creations on their blogs. [click to continue…]

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Digital Art Week

by admin on 09/04/2013

Digital Art WeekNext week sees the arrival of our 3rd annual Digital Art Week. This gives primary school children around Ireland the opportunity to share their digital art with other children around the country and complete some fun visual arts activities. As it’s digital, over the course of the week, schools will use digital tools such as Twitter in order to learn about art and to create their own pieces of work. [click to continue…]

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ScoilnetSeomra Ranga has been selected as the Site of the Week on Scoilnet for this week. This is a great honour for the Seomra Ranga website to be highlighted again on Ireland’s largest portal site for education. Scoilnet referred to Seomra Ranga as the “multi award winning site [which] is a Scoilnet favourite for seasonal resources, teacher-made powerpoints, articles and insights”. [click to continue…]

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Na Trí MhíoltógMany thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition with Cló Iar-Chonnacht for prizes of  books as Gaeilge for the first week of Seachtain na Gaeilge . It was a great success. Many thanks to Cló Iar-Chonnacht for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the questions quite easy, but just to confirm, the answers were: [click to continue…]

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Communion Day on RTE1

March 1, 2013

Communion Day is a new two-part documentary commencing on RTE1 on Monday March 4th at 9.35pm. The two programmes follow eight very different families, four on each night, as they journey towards the big day. Among the eight participants in the documentaries, there’s the story of Laoise from Cork who has Spina Bifida, Lorraine from [...]

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Signs of Spring Twitter Project

February 28, 2013

It’s time for another Twitter project to get your class organised to look about and observe the signs of Spring in their environment. We started off these projects last year with a Signs of Spring and Signs of Autumn Twitter project. It was felt that we did the Signs of Spring project a little too [...]

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Edcanvas

February 22, 2013

Edcanvas is a website which I only recently came across. It is used to help students and teachers organise and present online content in one place. So, for example, let’s presume that you are starting a new topic or project in class and you are doing some research to gather your resources for the topic. Normally, your [...]

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Personal Funding in Primary Classrooms

February 11, 2013

Some time ago, I came across a discussion somewhere on the internet where teachers were talking about items they had purchased for their classrooms from personal funds. I wondered how prevalent this was so I put a quick question out on the Seomra Ranga Facebook Page asking teachers what they spend personal money on for [...]

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Kandle Lenten Resources

February 10, 2013

For anyone not familiar with the Kandle website, it is the website of the Kildare and Leighlin Diocese which has been making religious classroom resources available to teachers for quite some time. These resources, especially those for Advent and Lent, are usually practical and are most suitable for use in the classroom.

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Trócaire Lenten Resources 2013

February 10, 2013

Next Wednesday, February 13th marks the beginning of Lent 2013 and, as usual, the Trócaire charity has produced some great classroom resources to coincide with the season of Lent. India is the focus of the resources this year and there are separate resources for Junior Primary pupils, Senior Primary pupils, Post-Primary pupils and resources as Gaeilge [...]

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Bring A Teacher To Twitter

February 10, 2013

I just came across this great new idea from Stephen Lockyer (@mrlockyer) in the UK where a campaign is afoot to get teachers currently using Twitter to recruit a colleague or fellow teacher to start using Twitter. Called Bring A Teacher To Twitter (using the hashtags #battt or #batttuk), the aim is to get experienced [...]

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Meitheal na mBeag Conference

February 6, 2013

This year’s Meitheal na mBeag Conference for those working in children’s arts through Irish will be held in An Taibhdhearc, Co. na Gaillimhe. The two day conference, entitled “The Cultural Rights of the Child“, will take place on the 15th and 16th of February 2013. This year’s event takes its theme from Article 31 of [...]

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IPPEA Conference 2013

February 6, 2013

The Irish Primary PE Association (IPPEA) will hold its annual conference on Saturday March 2nd in St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. The theme of this year’s conference is “Let’s Get Moving” and a variety of workshops are planned for the day to get participants moving. There will be workshops on creative dance, yoga, athletics, [...]

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Teaching Council Consultation on Entry Requirements to Teaching

January 30, 2013

In June 2011, the Teaching Council published Initial Teacher Education: Criteria and Guidelines for Programme Providers. That document noted the Council’s intention to initiate a consultation process in relation to revised minimum entry requirements for entry onto programmes of initial teacher education (ITE). That process has now commenced,

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