Mission V Seeks Funding for Project
MissionV is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes the development of 21st century skills through innovative online technologies. It is enhancing the Irish classroom by providing the digital tools for teachers and students to design and create their own, curriculum-based, interactive content – for powerful new learning experiences. During the school year 2011-12 they ran a pilot project in 20 primary schools, supported by the National Centre for Technology and Education (NCTE). read more…
Veritas Prayer Assemblies Book Competition
It’s time for another book competition! Thanks to the religious bookseller Veritas, we have five copies of their new publication “Prayer Assemblies for Primary Schools” to give away. Written by Maurice Harmon and Elaine Mahon, the book contains forty ready-to-use prayer assemblies based on themes from the academic and liturgical year. It can be used by principals, teachers, school chaplains or parish workers who visit schools or classrooms. Combining ease of use with creative ideas for prayer read more…
Blogging With Kidblog
Over the past few years I had read about other educators using Kidblog to get their pupils blogging. I didn’t delve into it too much as I had been teaching younger pupils for the past few years. However, now that I moved back up to 6th class, I decided to investigate this blogging platform and to see how I could use it in the classroom. read more…
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 3
This is the third of David Ganly’s ICT in the Classroom eBulletins. David teaches in Donabate Community College and he says that the eBulletin started off as an idea he had to engage and encourage teachers in his school to use ICT in the classroom. After putting the first edition together he soon realised that it would be more beneficial if he made it open for any teacher to use,
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Best Buddy Award
This is a certificate to reward a pupil who has made a special effort to be a good friend to another pupil/s in school during the week. (.pdf file 118 KB) Download File…
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An Tinreamh is Fearr
Tá an teastas seo le haghaidh moladh a thabhairt do dhalta atá tinreamh iomlán aige/aici i rith na seachtaine/na míosa ar scoil. (comhad .pdf 163KB) Íoslódáil an Comhad…
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Tinreamh Iomlán
Tá an teastas seo le haghaidh moladh a thabhairt do dhalta atá tinreamh iomlán aige/aici i rith na seachtaine/na míosa ar scoil. (comhad .pdf 166KB) Íoslódáil an Comhad…
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Seomra Ranga’s 5th Birthday
Time to celebrate! Seomra Ranga is five years old today. I can’t really believe that! I still remember that summer of 2007 when I was putting the original site together, really using it as a way of organising for myself the resources I had put together and seeing if it had the bones of a website. I honestly never thought that I’d still be working on it five years later! However, it has been such a huge success that it’s hard to imagine what I did with all this time before I began working on Seomra Ranga! read more…
Help My Kid Learn
I just happened across the Help My Kid Learn website during the week and wondered how it came about. It seems that as part of the national literacy and numeracy strategy, the Department of Education and Skills (DES) asked the National Adult Literacy Agency to highlight the role that parents and communities can play in improving children’s literacy and numeracy, read more…
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 2
This is the second of David Ganly’s ICT in the Classroom eBulletins. David teaches in Donabate Community College and he says that the eBulletin started off as an idea he had to engage and encourage teachers in his school to use ICT in the classroom. After putting the first edition together he soon realised that it would be more beneficial if he made it open for any teacher to use
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