I was invited to speak at the Irish Computer Society’s annual conference in April. I was introduced as someone who would give an insight and examples into the virtual staff notice board and how I have made life a little easier for teachers using free web applications. I hope I managed to do that. My talk was based on my article, “Heads in the Cloud”, and I spoke about how my school utilises Google Apps for our complete communication system. For those of you who want to listen to the talk, below is a podcast. It does rely a little bit on a couple of images in places, but you should get a good picture of what I do, without seeing the slides.
Spell Rite Right (Learning Horizons)
I worked with a small group of children in the Support setting for the last 6 months with the “Spell Rite Right” programme. The variety of exercises in the Spell Rite Right programme made it enjoyable to use and continuously held the students’ interest. Each unit has clever methods and mental strategies to help the … Read more