by admin | Aug 3, 2012 | Book Reviews
Do you have young readers at home who are looking for some new reading material during this dismal summer? Seomra Ranga has advance copies of three children’s novels, all by Irish authors, that young readers may be delighted to get their hands on. The catch is...
by admin | Jul 5, 2012 | Bibliography, Infants, Poetry, Teaching News
I accidentally came across this book of rhymes on the internet while looking for something else. There are 24 pages of rhymes, songs, nursery rhymes, hello and goodbye rhymes, fingerplays, action rhymes and lap rhymes. It comes from the Henrico County Public Libraries...
by admin | Jul 4, 2012 | Teaching News
I wrote a Blog Post some time ago about how, after being challenged by Pam Moran and Ira Socol at the ICT in Education Conference in Tipperary to make a change in our classrooms to make the space more conducive to learning, I created a new Learning Space in my...
by admin | Jul 4, 2012 | Technology
I’m doing the NCTE summer course on Scratch Programming and Numeracy in Senior Primary Classes this week. I’d heard and read a lot about Scratch over the years but knew virtually nothing about how to work it or how it could be used in the classroom....
by admin | Jul 3, 2012 | Technology
Some months ago, infant teacher Mary Jo Bell wrote a Guest Post on this blog about Infants and ICT which was well received at the time. Mary Jo has now teamed up with the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) to produce a great video demonstrating the...
by admin | Jul 2, 2012 | Teaching News
The INTO has reported that the Education Amendment Act 2012 has been passed by the Oireachtas and signed by the President. As well as a number of other issues, the Act allows the DES and Teaching Council to exchange data in order to compile lists of registered and...
