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 25, 2013 | Apps
Little Writer is a tracing app for younger pupils from developers Alligator Apps. It is used to support younger learners who are at the initial stages of writing. This app helps such pupils to correctly write upper and lower case letters, numbers, words and shapes. It...
by admin | Jul 23, 2013 | Apps
The Over App is similar to Phonto, another app I wrote about previously. This app is used for overlaying text onto a photograph or image. The text can be changed in many different ways by changing the font, alignment, colour, opacity and size. The app has recently...
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...
