Tree Day 2012
The Tree Council of Ireland, supported by Tetra Pak, is delighted to launch Tree Day 2012 themed “If Trees Could Talk…”, which will take place on Thursday 11th October. Trees, especially old trees, have many intriguing tales to tell of times past. On Tree Day, schools and families are invited to explore the fascinating stories, the people and events of local, national and world significance that a tree in their locality may have witnessed in its lifetime. read more…
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 4
This is the fourth 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, so he then decided to circulate it through his email contacts, the CESI list and Edmodo.
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Book Review: The Demon Notebook
“The Demon Notebook”, published by O’ Brien Press, is the first book written by author Erika McGann.
The book is about five girls who want to be witches. They try to cast spells but they never work until one day, after using a Ouija board, one of the girls becomes possessed by a demon. Suddenly all of the spells they have ever cast start working! The girls look for help to get rid of the demon from their friend before it’s too late. read more…
Dyslexic Font
I’ve come across a few articles on the internet in the past week or so about a new font devised specifically to help pupils with Dyslexia. The font, called Open Dyslexic, apparently uses a device in which the bottoms of characters are weighted. Curiously some dyslexic pupils’ visual processing cortexes rotate images that look slender, making characters appear backwards or upside down. By making the bottom look “heavier” the font reportedly reduces this kind of visual “bug” in the brains of people with this reading disability. read more…
Veritas Prayer Assemblies Book Competition Winners
Many thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition with Veritas for a copy of “Prayer Assemblies for Primary Schools” by Maurice Harmon and Elaine Mahon. It was a great success. Many thanks to Veritas for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the questions quite easy, but just to confirm, the answers were: read more…
Signs of Autumn Twitter Project
The days are gradually closing in and the autumn weather is making its presence felt. What better time then to do a Twitter Project. We did a Twitter project earlier in the year for the Signs of Spring and Mary Jo Bell suggested to me that we should do a similar one for the approach of autumn. So, over Twitter one night we decided to just go ahead and announce a “Signs of Autumn Twitter Project”. read more…
Deireadh Fómhair 2012
This is a single A4 sized page with a calendar for Deireadh Fómhair 2012. It is suitable for sticking to the teacher’s desk, to the classroom wall or to the staffroom noticeboard. (.pdf file 18.5KB) Download File…
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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…