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The Blog Awards Ireland are Back!

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Last year Damien Mulley announced that he was ending the Irish Blog Awards just in time for me to pluck up the confidence to enter Anseo.net so I was delighted when I heard that my friends in the KLCK Bloggers’ Network decided to take it on. The Blog Awards Ireland will be  happening later this year and … Read more

Interactive Whiteboard Update

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It’s been a good while since I’ve written about Interactive Whiteboards. Four years after they burst on to the Irish classroom scene, IWBs just seem to be part of the overall furniture in the classroom. I would have a rough estimate that 85-90% of classrooms in Ireland have a projector or full IWB set up. … Read more

Thank a Teacher

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From my observations and from the various independent reports that have been published, in Ireland, the majority of parents believe that teachers are doing a good job with their children. Sometimes, it can be difficult as a teacher to see this because the media, in general, have been less than positive about our profession since … Read more

ICT in Education Conference 2012

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The 8th annual ICT in Education Conference will take place in Thurles on the 19th May. Prefaced with the wonderful CESI-Meet on the evening of the 18th May, this event is one of the key conferences on the education calendar. This year’s theme is “Learning Spaces”, a timely and relevant theme as the whole question … Read more

New NCCA Reports

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The NCCA launched their new report templates last week providing schools with a nice new web site, http://www.reportcard.ncca.ie/, which allows schools to generate their own personalised report cards based on the new rules and regulations from the government. The web site gives schools the option of having various combinations of narrative-style and tick-the-box style templates and … Read more

Seas Suas

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I’m delighted to be able to announce the launch of a new web site designed by Nigel Lane (Inside Lane, Irish Teacher Blogs) and me – Seas Suas. Seas Suas is a dynamic ever-changing online newspaper for primary schools around the country. Once a school registers, whenever they update their blog, Seas Suas looks for keywords and decides what section of the newspaper it belongs in. Topics include sports, festivals, technology and lots more. The idea of the site is to promote all the great work happening in schools around the country in one place. With so much doom and gloom around the media about education, we thought it would be a good idea to celebrate the fantastic work of teachers around the country. Take a look at the site and see what’s been going on in our pilot over the last few months and then add your school to the mix.

Digital Art Week 2012

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Digital Art Week 2012 was a fantastic success with almost 100 schools registered to join in. I thought I’d share some of the statistics from the week to celebrate some of the events that went on. Overall, in the week, 229 individual tweets were sent on Twitter with the hashtag #artweek12. The Twitter users who … Read more

Competition: Pipe Up

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We’ve teamed up with Gerry Lyons from Na Píobairí Uilleann to win a super prize! Pipe Up, an Irish Traditional Music Resource DVD-ROM, is produced by Na Píobairí Uilleann, the association of uilleann pipers, and aims to bridge the knowledge gap about Irish traditional instruments using the latest computer technology. We’re giving away 5 copies of this … Read more

HP Teacher Exchange

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Despite having the worst web address (http://h30411.www3.hp.com/) Hewlett Packard have one of the most interesting web sites for teachers. I follow them on Twitter (@HPTeachExchange) and they often come up with some lists of great resources for teachers. A few months ago I blogged about how I used their list of animation resources for a project with my fifth and sixth class. This week, I was really impressed with an article which lists some great ways for children to publish their own content. Check it out here.

Digital Art Week Instructions

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Digital Art Week starts next week so here is a simple step-by-step guide to adding your children’s art. Make a piece of art using any electronic device. You can use a Painting package, an app on an iPad or other tablet or anything else. Use your imagination! Go to this web site: http://www.childrensgallery.ie/upload.php Fill in … Read more

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