by admin | Nov 12, 2010 | Technology
I started using Twitter in my classroom with my 1st and 2nd class during the final term of the last school year. I was encouraged to start because a number of schools throughout the country were coming together for a Twitter project. Organised by Simon Lewis...
by admin | Nov 8, 2010 | Technology
I’m a relative novice to Google Docs and never really personally saw the need for me to find out what they could do and how to use them. I had been aware from many articles on the internet written by people in the field of education that they were widely used....
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | Apps, Technology
Writing some poetry was a theme in our English work during the past couple of weeks with my class of seven, eight and nine year olds. We had written some cinquains and octopoems to a greater or lesser degree of success. Co-incidentally, at the same time I read a blog...
by admin | Oct 15, 2010 | Resources
This week’s RTE Guide is giving away a free Classics for Children CD with each copy purchased. The CD contains 22 classic tunes which are suitable for use in the primary school classroom. Composers such as Debussy, Saint Saens, Kodaly, Bizet, Strauss and Haydn...
by admin | Oct 4, 2010 | Technology
Those of you who follow this blog will know that my class and I are involved in a pilot project looking at how iPod Touches can be of an educational benefit in Irish primary school classrooms. This project has been organised by Sligo Education Centre in association...
by admin | Oct 2, 2010 | Website
It’s been so busy at Seomra Ranga with the re-development of the new site that I completely overlooked the 3rd birthday of the site last week. Yes, the site has been going since September 2007 and it has really grown in the space of those three years. From...
