Signs of Autumn Twitter Project

Signs of Autumn Twitter Project

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...
Mission V Seeks Funding for Project

Mission V Seeks Funding for Project

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,...
Veritas Prayer Assemblies Book Competition

Veritas Prayer Assemblies Book Competition

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...
Blogging With Kidblog

Blogging With Kidblog

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...
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 3

ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 3

This is the third 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...
Seomra Ranga’s 5th Birthday

Seomra Ranga’s 5th Birthday

Time to celebrate! Seomra Ranga is five years old today. I can’t really believe that! I still remember that summer of 2007 when I was putting the original site together, really using it as a way of organising for myself the resources I had put together and...