Know Your Ireland
Edware have been around for as long as I’ve been in teaching, when the author was still a student in college and the first “Know Your Ireland” was out and I met him at the Education Show that used to be in the RDS. At the time, I was involved in another software project, Who Took […]
Scoilnet Blogging Service
Scoilnet, an NCTE initiative are providing Irish schools with Blog hosting. I tested it out at the excellent CESI conference this year and I must admit, Scoilnet have got it right.
Interactive Literacy
Interactive Literacy 3rd Class This is CD-ROM and Teachers’ Handbook series from Prim-ED, it is available for 1st- 6th Class. It is based, I am presuming on the English Curriculum as it uses the word “Literacy” and also uses the terms ” Speaking and Listening”, ” Text work”, “Sentence work” and many other terms that […]
Introducing Text Types CD-ROM (Prim Ed)
Introducing Text Types CD-ROM (Prim Ed) Introducing Text Types is a CD Rom published by Prim Ed. It’s a very simple presentation package which outlines the 6 different types of writing the average senior primary student will encounter – Discussion, Explanation, Narrative, Procedure, Recount and Report. To be honest, I was a little disappointed. There’s […]
Introducing Text Types CD-ROM (Prim Ed)
Introducing Text Types CD-ROM (Prim Ed) Introducing Text Types is a CD Rom published by Prim Ed. It’s a very simple presentation package which outlines the 6 different types of writing the average senior primary student will encounter – Discussion, Explanation, Narrative, Procedure, Recount and Report. To be honest, I was a little disappointed. There’s […]
Constructing Narratives
The Constructing Narratives is a photocopiable teacher and student resource. It is an upper level and is suitable for 5th and 6th Class. The book is part of a 3 book series – there are lower, middle and upper levels available to cover the whole primary level. There are full lesson plans and photocopiable pages […]
Review: Speaking and Listening – Prim Ed
Name of publication: Speaking and Listening (Upper) Primary by Prim-Ed. Summary: Speaking and Listening is a 3-book, photocopiable series which aims to cover a range of speaking and listening topics. It is broken up into 2 pages of student worksheets and 1 teacher notes page/lesson plan. Relevance to curriculum aims: 4.5/5 This publication is the […]
Go Animate!
It’s not often I’m blown away by web sites. It’s not often that I recommend them either. In this case I’m also going to break my “Irish-only” rule about recommending a web site because this is one of the first web sites I’ve found where you can use it to teach Comhrá Gaeilge and make […]
Go Animate!
It’s not often I’m blown away by web sites. It’s not often that I recommend them either. In this case I’m also going to break my “Irish-only” rule about recommending a web site because this is one of the first web sites I’ve found where you can use it to teach Comhrá Gaeilge and make […]
A Review of popular Web Site Design Packages
Writing a web site is not as daunting a task as it used to be. I remember trying to write a web page for the first time with only Window’s Notepad and a sheet of paper with various commands as my companions. My first web site contained a title with some text under it followed […]