by admin | Nov 16, 2012 | Teaching News
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...
by admin | Nov 13, 2012 | Teaching News, Video
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...
by admin | Nov 11, 2012 | Technology, Website
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...
by admin | Nov 2, 2012 | Website
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...
by admin | Nov 2, 2012 | Technology
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...
by admin | Nov 2, 2012 | Teaching News, Technology
I came across this presentation through the Teachers With Apps website in the last few days, which I follow through RSS feed using the Feeddler App on the iPad. It gives some useful tips and ideas for technologies that could easily be used in the classroom. It is...