Oíche Nollag
Go raibh maith agat do Dolores Stewart don nasc seo. ‘Sé dán do chuid Máire Mhac an tSaoi atá oiriúnach don am seo den bhliain. Is féidir é a thaispeáint do na hardranganna go háirithe, ach mar sin féin, tá an dán léite as Gaeilge agus as Béarla. Bain taitneamh as. …
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New Christmas Resources
Lots of new Christmas resources have been added to the Christmas @ Seomra Ranga (www.christmas.seomraranga.com) website recently. These include Christmas bookmarks, some seasonal door signs, Advent Wreath flashcards, flashcards for “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, Christmas themed number lines and “Tá San Nioclás ag …..” ainm briathartha posters. A new section of Christmas Wordles has also been added to the site. As usual, all of the resources are free to download to all users of the site. If you have Christmas resources that you are willing to share, please upload them to info@seomraranga.com
Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition
Many thanks to all Seomra Ranga users who took the trouble to upload a resource to the website during the month of November for the Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition. Many new resources have been added to the site as a result of the competition. Some people added many new resources to the site. However, overall, I thought that many more individuals would have taken part in the competition, especially given that the site attracts so many visitors each month.
Many thanks to Luke Curley at Edware Interactive Learning (www.edware.ie) for sponsoring the prizes of the popular Know Your Ireland and Know Your Europe software. Each person who uploaded a resource was allocated a number by me. Luke then selected three random numbers in order to select the prize recipients. The winners of the prizes are Shaygirl, Orla Dempsey and Drom NS.
Christmas @ Seomra Ranga
The Christmas season is upon us again and the Christmas @ Seomra Ranga website, which was launched last year, is up and running again. It’s full of resources for the Christmas season in the classroom: religious resources, signs and posters, music and visual arts ideas. New this year are some resources created with Wordle. Some new Christmas resources will be added to the site over the coming days and weeks, so keep returning to the site to view these. If you have a Christmas resource that you have created yourself, please share it with others by uploading it to Seomra Ranga. Suggestions of links to other sites with Christmas resources are also welcome.
New Irish Geography Resources
A set of new flashcard resources on the physical geography of Ireland has just been added to the Seomra Ranga website. The resources are all in .pdf format and are in full colour similar to the example above of the mountains of Ireland resource. The following is a list of these new resources:
Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition
Seomra Ranga is delighted to team up with Edware Interactive Learning (http://www.edware.ie), an Irish company, to bring you a competition on the website for the month of November. Edware is sponsoring prizes of their hugely successful geography software programmes Know Your Ireland (two copies) and Know Your Europe. Edware also produces the Know Your World and Know Your USA programmes. All these programmes are especially suitable to be used on an IWB for whole class teaching. They also feature lots of activities based on the content of each programme.
To be in with a chance of winning one of these three prizes, all you have to do is upload a resource to the Seomra Ranga website during the month of November. Simply attach the resource, in any format (.doc, .ppt, .pdf, .xls, .pub, .jpg etc) to an e-mail and send it to info@seomraranga.com You can enter the competition as many times as you wish – one e-mail = one competition entry. The only condition is that you must have created the resource yourself and not received it from someone else or downloaded it from another website.
So if you have documents, lesson plans or classroom resources that you have created, please consider sharing them with others through the Seomra Ranga website and be in with a chance to win an excellent piece of software. It is Seomra Ranga practice to credit the creator of a resource on the website. If you would prefer not to have your name with a resource on the site, please indicate this on your entry e-mail. So get uploading your resources during November.
Website Downtime
Working with IT can be frustrating sometimes! Just when everything is running along smoothly, a glitch hits the system when least expected. This is what happened to the Seomra Ranga website last week. And as Murphy’s Law would have it, the glitch happened when I was out of the country. It appears that the Seomra Ranga website just got too busy during the month of October with more than 51,000 visits. This also co-incided with teachers looking for resources in the run-up to Hallowe’en. Due to the level of downloading, the allocated bandwidth of the site was exceeded and access to the site was automatically blocked. This is the first time that this has happened to the site – looking positively it may be an indicator of the success of the site.
I only became aware of the access problems to the site after I decided to check in with Education Posts during the week to see what was happening in the education world in Ireland. A swift e-mail to my host provider, Lets Host, and they worked immediately on getting the site back up and running. For the longer term, the bandwidth issue will be resolved to eliminate the possibility of this happening again. So everything is back to normal and hopefully the gremlins will be happy with their Hallowe’en surprise for Seomra Ranga and stay away for a long time to come!
Hallowe’en Wordles
Check out the new Hallowe’en Wordles that have been added to the site today. They are based on Hallowe’en, Hallowe’en Food, Hallowe’en Creatures and Oíche Shamhna. Enjoy!
View these resources HERE>>>>>
New Hallowe’en Resources
A number of new Hallowe’en resources have been added to the Seomra Ranga website today. They include a set of flashcards of spooky Hallowe’en vocabulary; two new Hallowe’en themed door signs; a Hallowe’en themed writing frame; two new large and small 1-20 number lines with a Hallowe’en theme; all eleven Dolch Word Lists, each list with its own Hallowe’en theme. I hope teachers find these useful and practical for the classroom. If you have any resources for Hallowe’en in the classroom, please send them to info@seomraranga.com and I’ll upload them to the site to share with others.
8 Year Olds With iPods in School
What happens when you give a class of eight year olds an iPod each in school? I found out about this video through Twitter from @simonlewis. It’s amazing what educational uses iPods could be put to in a classroom. Could this ever happen in Ireland?…
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