by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Teaching News
It’s that time of year again when anticipation in educational technology circles in Ireland is building towards the annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) which will be held on Saturday February 27th. The theme of this year’s...
by admin | Jan 20, 2016 | Book Reviews
I read the book “Gulliver” which is a kids story based on a classic book written by Jonathan Swift. This story which has been retold by Mary Webb. The story is about a man called Gulliver who gets stranded on the island of Lilliput. The people living on the island are...
by admin | Dec 21, 2015 | Technology
At the start of the calendar year I wrote a post about a year long project called Project 252. The idea behind the project, organised by Enda Donlon, project was to crowd-source a list of Ed-tech tools in order to compile an A-Z directory. So, throughout this year...
by admin | Nov 14, 2015 | Teaching News
Next Monday, November 16th, marks the beginning of Library Ireland Week. The theme of the week this year is “A Library Holds a World of Ideas” – that libraries and books are a portal into a world of ideas and opportunities: a world of imagination and...
by admin | Nov 12, 2015 | Teaching News, Technology
Like many good ideas nowadays that have their genesis on social media, this idea began with a conversation on Twitter. Ciara Brennan (@PrimEdTeacher), a teacher in St. Peter’s Primary School, Bray, Co. Wicklow, was suggesting a common hashtag for schools to...
by admin | Nov 10, 2015 | Book Reviews
I recently read “The Midnight Carnival” by Erica Mc Gann. It is a very detailed book about six teenage girls, all of whom study the art of witchcraft. The girls’ names were Grace, Jenny, Delilah, Adie, Una and Rachel. The story is mainly about the...
