by admin | Apr 4, 2014 | Teaching News
Buzzing with Books, a conference to celebrate children’s engagement with literature, will take place on May 22nd and 23rd in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. The conference promises to be of particular benefit and interest for primary school teachers, as a...
by admin | Apr 4, 2014 | Technology
Check out this article I wrote for the April 2014 edition of InTouch, the INTO magazine for primary school teachers, entitled “Get Pupils Blogging With Kidblog”. It charts the progress of a group of 6th class pupils as they blogged their way through their...
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | Book Reviews
Teideal: Na Bleachtairí: Taibhse Príomhcharachtair: Brian, Lakshmi, Tomáisín agus Síle. Coimriú: Tá fuaim aisteach le cloisteáil ó theach Lakshmi. Tá na bleachtairí ar an gcás, ach níl leid le fáil in aon áit. An dtiocfaidh siad ar leid ar deireadh, nó an é seo cás...
by admin | Mar 8, 2014 | Technology
The Signs of Spring Twitter 2014 Project completed by schools across the country last week was a great success. Indeed schools from outside Ireland also took part. There was a great variety of stories, observations, images, photographs, videos all recording the...
by admin | Mar 3, 2014 | Technology
This resource was the presentation I gave to the Annual CESI (Computers in Education Society of Ireland) Conference in Galway on March 1st, 2014. The presentation was an attempt at demonstrating how technology could be used to provide a different, perhaps more...
by admin | Mar 2, 2014 | Apps, Guest Post, Technology
This is the second instalment of Joanne Gilmartin’s Guest Post on Using Tablets for Numeracy. In her first post she gave some examples of websites and apps that are useful for tackling various aspects/strands of the mathematics curriculum. In her first...
