Review of 2012

Review of 2012

Now into its sixth year, it’s been another busy year on Seomra Ranga and it’s safe to say that, at this stage, the website has become a mainstay in the online educational digital landscape in Ireland.  Without doubt, the highlight of the year came at the...

Christmas Greetings 2012

Christmas Greetings to you all from Seomra Ranga and best wishes for the New Year. Enjoy your well-earned break from the classroom. A special “Thank You” to the thousands of visitors to the site during the past year. Thanks to all of you for your kind comments and...
Know Your Ireland Competition

Know Your Ireland Competition

The Know Your Ireland app for iPad, launched in September, has just been upgraded and version 1.1 is now available for purchase from the iTunes App Store. When the app was launched in September, I wrote an App Review where I lauded the launch of an Irish Geography app...
Junior Spider Awards

Junior Spider Awards

The Junior Spider Awards, the schools’ version of the main Spider Awards, was established in 2009 to: encourage the use of the internet to teach subjects on our curriculum; acknowledge the innovation amongst web creators in schools; provide an exciting programme...
Scratch Competition

Scratch Competition

Scratch is a visual programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share these creations on the web. It is a fun and interesting way to introduce software development to pupils. Originally developed by the...
Seomra Ranga Wins Edublog Award

Seomra Ranga Wins Edublog Award

Seomra Ranga has won the prestigious Best Individual Blog at the 9th annual international Edublog Awards held online last night. It was a truly unexpected win as I had presumed that the might of the larger US and UK blogs would prevail. There were originally 139...