by admin | Feb 28, 2011 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
Census Background The 2011 Census will take place on Sunday April 10th next, when every household in the country will complete their Census form. The census is a count of the population of the country. It also asks questions relating to every person in the country on...
by admin | Feb 26, 2011 | Resources Websites
For those who may not be aware, Scoilnet has put together forty-four different Themepages covering a broad range of themes across all areas of the curriculum including World War II, Weather, Safety, Water, Shapes All Around Us, Roald Dahl and many others. They also...
by admin | Feb 26, 2011 | Resources Websites
It’s About Time – Archaeology in the Classroom, is an SESE History resource site for teachers. It was developed in 2005 by Limerick Education Centre and supported by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the Primary...
by admin | Feb 17, 2011 | Resources Websites
‘Exploring Sligo, a Study of Sligo’s Heritage’ is a schools heritage and ICT project, which seeks to promote high levels of awareness and understanding of local heritage amongst participants. The project, initiated by Sligo Education Centre,...
by admin | Feb 9, 2011 | Apps, Resources Websites, Teaching News, Technology
Over the last few weeks I have been working together with others involved in the pilot project using iPods in the Irish classroom to create a wiki listing of all the apps which we are using and which we feel are suitable to the Irish curriculum. Listed on this wiki...
by admin | Jan 18, 2011 | Resources Websites
Sneeze Safe is an English based website which provides you with free resources to teach children about “Catch It, Bin It, Kill It”, to help stop the spread of viruses. It is put together by Kleenex, the tissue manufacturer, for obvious reasons. If you can...
by admin | Jan 13, 2011 | Resources Websites
Many teachers take a thematic approach to teaching and like to plan a scheme of cross-curricular work around a particular topic. Similarly, many students teachers are asked to plan their lessons for teaching practice around a particular theme. Whatever your reason for...
by admin | Feb 12, 2010 | Resources Websites, Technology
A very successful CESI Conference was held last weekend in Portlaoise. “Creative Technology for Challenging Times” was the theme of the conference. The Heritage Hotel was the venue on Friday night for the CESI Teach-Meet where there was a great variety of...
by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | Resources Websites
I just discovered this website today and quickly could see how this would be of huge benefit to the primary school classroom. The website is sponsored by the multinational 3M which makes, among other things, reflective clothing for the emergency services, construction...
by admin | Jun 26, 2009 | Resources, Resources Websites
There are now some new Wordle resources added onto the Seomra Ranga website. I first heard about Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) at this years CESI conference and I’m only really now getting around to using it. Wordle is a very simple online piece of software...
by admin | Nov 13, 2008 | Resources, Resources Websites, Seasonal
A new Seomra Ranga website has just been launched. The Christmas @ Seomra Ranga website is dedicated to Christmas resources for use in the primary school classroom. Among the many resources contained on the site are: Christmas posters and signs Seasonal flashcards...
by admin | Oct 4, 2008 | Resources Websites
Logainm is a new website containing a database of the placenames of Ireland. The site comes in an English version or a Gaeilge version and you can switch between both quite easily. The purpose of the site is to make available to the public Irish place names that have...
by admin | Sep 12, 2008 | Resources Websites
Moneyville is a new Irish website with the aim of teaching younger children more about money, the value of money and saving money. This is a flash-based site which is very colourful with a high standard of animation. It should be instantly attractive to young...
by admin | Aug 27, 2008 | Resources, Resources Websites, Technology
Spelling City is a website dedicated to learning and having fun with spellings. You can create your own wordlists by entering 1, 5 or 10 words to learn. Once you have done this, you have three options – “Test Me”, “Teach Me” or...
by admin | Aug 27, 2008 | Resources, Resources Websites, Technology
“Look, Cover Write and Check” is a nice online spelling programme demonstrating the commonly used methodology for learning spellings. There is no software to download so the game is played online. There are sets of word lists incorporated into the...
