Competition Winner
Mick Foley was kind enough to post us a photograph of himself with his prize from Anseo.net, a HD Flip Cam. We wish Mick the very best of luck in his teaching career as he finishes his time with Hibernia College.
Day: 9 July 2011
Tips on Building a School Web Site: Le Chéile Educate Together NS
Le Chéile Educate Together NS is a multi-denominational primary school based in Drogheda, Co. Louth. One of their parents asked me to have a look at their web site to give some feedback. As in the past number of articles, I must note that I am not a professional web designer. Le Chéile ETNS appears … Read more
Keep On Track
It greatly frustrates me when I read newspapers talking about education. I don’t take notice of the usual teacher-bashing. It only slightly irks me that primary and secondary schools seemed to be lumped together as one. However, I get really annoyed when there are headline-grabbing stories about technology in education. Either it’s that Irish teachers … Read more
Sensory, motor and relationship perspectives in Autistic Spectrum disorders or ASDs-Part 2
Research There is a huge amount of research into the area of the difficulties of people/children with sensory input; however, the area of sensory integration is being developed. Jean Miller, famed for her work in “Sensational kids” is currently working in this area. Temple Grandin is another name you may have heard of, she is … Read more
The Targetboard Project
In our May edition of Anseo.net, I wrote about how I thought one could use Google Apps to support a collaborative Mental Maths project using Targetboards. I launched Targetboard.net and tried to drum up as much support for the project as possible before we began on June 7th. Thanks to the support of mailing … Read more
Guest article: Luke Curley (EdWare)
EdWare Hi everyone. Rozz and Simon were kind enough to ask me to write a short guest article for anseo.net, so here goes. My name is Luke Curley, my background is in software development and I am a graduate from the University of Limerick with a BSc. in Computer Science. So how did I get … Read more
Three schools linking together to pool resources
I stumbled upon a web site called Shankids.com, and was immediately impressed. When I asked about it on Twitter, one of my Twitter buddies revealed she worked in one of the schools involved. She asked her colleague to write a short piece about the web site and here it is. ‘Shankids.com’ is an educational activity … Read more