by admin | Oct 14, 2012 | Hallowe'en, Resources Websites
Scoilnet have a selection of more than fifty themepages that cover many different curricular areas such as Italy, the Titanic, Ancient Egypt, Music in the classroom and many others. However, at this time of the year teachers will be very interested to visit the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2012 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
The Tree Council of Ireland, supported by Tetra Pak, is delighted to launch Tree Day 2012 themed “If Trees Could Talk…”, which will take place on Thursday 11th October. Trees, especially old trees, have many intriguing tales to tell of times past. On Tree Day, schools...
by admin | Sep 19, 2012 | Resources Websites
I just happened across the Help My Kid Learn website during the week and wondered how it came about. It seems that as part of the national literacy and numeracy strategy, the Department of Education and Skills (DES) asked the National Adult Literacy Agency to...
by admin | Jul 1, 2012 | Resources Websites
The Literacy Shed is a new website that has been online only a couple of weeks but it is getting great reviews from many in the online education community and is building up a large following. The reason is that it is providing great inspiration, ideas and...
by admin | May 15, 2012 | Resources Websites
Topicbox is an English-based website which has been around for six years, slightly longer than Seomra Ranga. However, I only recently became aware of the site through Twitter. The site provides links to free resources on the internet across a wide variety of...
by admin | May 6, 2012 | Resources Websites
Last week saw the launch of Seas Suas, a new and exciting website of special interest to primary teachers. Put together by Simon Lewis of Anseo and Nigel Lane of The Inside Lane, the website brings the writings of pupils from their own school blogs to a larger...