by admin | Sep 27, 2012 | Teaching News, Technology
I’ve come across a few articles on the internet in the past week or so about a new font devised specifically to help pupils with Dyslexia. The font, called Open Dyslexic, apparently uses a device in which the bottoms of characters are weighted. Curiously some...
by admin | Sep 27, 2012 | Competitions
Many thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition with Veritas for a copy of “Prayer Assemblies for Primary Schools” by Maurice Harmon and Elaine Mahon. It was a great success. Many thanks to Veritas for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the...
by admin | Sep 26, 2012 | Technology
The days are gradually closing in and the autumn weather is making its presence felt. What better time then to do a Twitter Project. We did a Twitter project earlier in the year for the Signs of Spring and Mary Jo Bell suggested to me that we should do a similar one...
by admin | Sep 25, 2012 | Technology
MissionV is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes the development of 21st century skills through innovative online technologies. It is enhancing the Irish classroom by providing the digital tools for teachers and students to design and create their own,...
by admin | Sep 24, 2012 | Competitions
It’s time for another book competition! Thanks to the religious bookseller Veritas, we have five copies of their new publication “Prayer Assemblies for Primary Schools” to give away. Written by Maurice Harmon and Elaine Mahon, the book contains forty...
by admin | Sep 23, 2012 | Technology
Over the past few years I had read about other educators using Kidblog to get their pupils blogging. I didn’t delve into it too much as I had been teaching younger pupils for the past few years. However, now that I moved back up to 6th class, I decided to...
