by admin | Aug 15, 2013 | AEN, Teaching News
Together with a colleague, I’m embarking on the daunting task of setting up and teaching in a class for pupils with autism in my school this September. We’re filled with a sense of excitement and nervousness as we start on the road to creating something...
by admin | Aug 15, 2013 | Teaching News
This year, in celebration of World Teachers’ Day on October 5th, the Teaching Council will host FÉILTE, the Festival of Education in Learning and Teaching Excellence, at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin. FÉILTE aims to promote and celebrate innovation in...
by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Technology
I don’t usually promote individual products on this blog, but this is something that I think will be interesting to schools and teachers. Microsoft has a limited pricing offer for educators for their new Surface RT Tablet. Included with the Surface RT is...
by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Website
I just returned from holiday to receive the news that Seomra Ranga has been nominated for the Blog Awards Ireland 2013 in the Best Science/Education Blog category. Blog Awards Ireland 2013 celebrates the best in Irish blogging with 31 winners being announced at the...
by admin | Jul 23, 2013 | Technology
I’ve written a previous blog post about Talking QR Codes and how they could be used in the classroom. Put basically, you type in a text message of no more than 100 characters in length on the QR Voice website, which then creates a QR Code. You then save the QR...
by admin | Jul 23, 2013 | Technology
There are often times when teachers come across video content on YouTube that they wish to use in the classroom. However, it may be that they really only want the audio content of the video eg. a song/rhyme. It may be that the teacher feels that the video content is...
