by admin | Jul 16, 2011 | Apps, Technology
In June we did some work in the Visual Arts curriculum about Andy Warhol and the Pop Art movement in the 1960’s. We used Google Images to look at and respond to some images from this period in art history. We paid particular attention to the structure of pieces...
by admin | Jul 5, 2011 | Website
Teachers are used to writing reports at this time of the year, so I thought it would be an opportune time to look back over the year on Seomra Ranga. It’s hard to believe that the site is almost four years old and it’s safe to say that this has been the...
by admin | Jun 25, 2011 | Resources Websites, Technology
For those of you who were at the CESI conference in Portlaoise in February, you will remember Tom Barrett who gave the keynote address on the Saturday morning. He spoke broadly about the idea of crowdsourcing content with teachers and asked each teacher to use a...
by admin | Jun 23, 2011 | Teaching News, Technology, Video
I must admit that I’d never heard of a Godwit before, so when I received an email from Willie McSweeney from Scoil Iosaef Naofa, an all boys’ school in Cobh, Co. Cork, my first reaction was that this was yet another spam email amongst the hundreds of other that...
by admin | Jun 19, 2011 | Resources Websites
Mr. Thorne Does Phonics is a website of phonics resources for junior classes in the primary school. What is unusual about these resources, however, is that they are all made up of videos. The website is the creation of Christopher Thorne, a primary school teacher...
by admin | Jun 15, 2011 | Teaching News
The Teaching Council has been advised by the Department of Education and Skills (DES) that Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act, 2001 will be commenced in the coming school year. Section 30 provides that: A person who is employed as a teacher in a recognised...
