From Roscommon to Teaching in Melbourne, Australia

From Roscommon to Teaching in Melbourne, Australia

Someone recently sent me the link to this podcast interview with Enda Morris, an Irish primary school teacher from Roscommon now living and teaching in Melbourne, Australia. This article originally appeared in the Anzuk Teaching Agency Blog. It’s a fascinating...
Edublog Awards 2012 Nominations

Edublog Awards 2012 Nominations

The Edublog Awards is a community based initiative started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes. The purpose of the...

The Role of the Teaching Council

The Teaching Council has just released its first video to promote the role and work of the Council for teachers. In a Guest Post with Seomra Ranga last month, the Director of the Teaching Council, Tomás O’ Ruairc, promised that: “The Teaching Council is...
Another Facebook Milestone

Another Facebook Milestone

Today marks another milestone with the news that we’ve passed the 3,000 “Likes” milestone on the Seomra Ranga Facebook Page. It’s almost eight months to the day that we passed the 2,000 mark, so it’s unbelievable that another 1,000 people...
Nollaig Shona’s 1st Birthday

Nollaig Shona’s 1st Birthday

Nollaig Shona, the Christmas resources website from Seomra Ranga, celebrated its first birthday this week. I spent many months during 2011 making preparations to launch the new site. Previously, the Christmas resources had been housed in a sub-domain of Seomra Ranga...
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 6

ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 6

This is the sixth of David Ganly’s ICT in the Classroom eBulletins. David teaches in Donabate Community College and he says that the eBulletin started off as an idea he had to engage and encourage teachers in his school to use ICT in the classroom. After putting the...