It can be hard to encourage creativity in the classroom. Students complain of not knowing what to write about so where do writers start and where do they get their ideas from? One of the ways good writers work is to use writing prompts. A writing prompt is a topic around which you start scribbling or jotting down … Read more
Congratulations to Aoife Egan who has won Anseo.net’s March competition with thanks to Prim-Ed. She has won a bundle of CD-ROMs from Prim-Ed and we’re looking forward to hearing how she gets on with them. In order to enter any of our giveaways, all you need to do is subscribe to our weekly newsletter. One subscriber is … Read more
This year I was honoured to be one of the judges on the Eircom Junior Spider Awards. Today, Eircom has announced the shortlist for this year’s eircom Junior Spider Awards. Similar to previous years, the Awards are divided into three main categories: The Mega Spiders aimed at youths aged 4 – 12 years; the Giga aimed at … Read more
Review: Prim-Ed-Maths Games Galore-reinforcing maths skills-CD-ROMs The two CD-ROMs I am going to review are the Numbers and Operations and the Number Sense and Place Value ones available from Prim-Ed. The Numbers and Operations CD-ROM is made up of 10 different digital maths games that focus in on specific maths skills like counting up to … Read more
I am reliably told that this CESI conference is our 13th one! I have seen changes in logo, executive committee members, speakers and format over that time but I am always guaranteed that I will leave inspired and thankful to be in the teaching profession. On the Friday night, I headed on out to the … Read more
Review&Competition:Language Games Galore-CD ROM Anseo.net have been sent a whole bundle of wonderful CD-ROMs from Prim-Ed and they have also kindly offered us some for this month’s competition. I’m going to look at the Letters and Sounds and the Rhyming Words CD-ROMS together as they link things really well in terms of what an infant … Read more
The annual CESI conference will be taking place in Galway this weekend. We’re looking forward to our 13th conference and all it has to offer. This will be the 42nd CESI conference and the theme for this year’s conference is Beyond the Horizon – Technology in Education. CESI always manage to get at least one huge … Read more
Every two months, we draw a name out of our virtual hat from all our subscribers in our mailing list. This month’s winner gets Prim-Ed’s “The Literacy Box” worth €250 is Brian Carolan from Dublin. His prize will be sent out to him shortly. If you want to have your name in the draw, please make … Read more
After the great success of PrincipalMeet at the IPPN conference, Teachmeet Ireland have been invited to host CESI’s annual Friday night pre-conference Teachmeet. This is the first year that the Teachmeet has been outsourced and, given the success of Kathleen Byrne and Ciara Brennan’s Teachmeets around the country, it looks like participants are going to be in … Read more
Kathleen Byrne is organising the first national Principalmeet at the IPPN conference this year. It’s happening this Friday at 1pm and it’s going to be one of the hidden highlights of the conference. Anyone who attends this meet will come away with a vast array of ideas from their colleagues. In this guest post, Kathleen … Read more