Mash.ie

Mash.ie

Many teachers take a thematic approach to teaching and like to plan a scheme of cross-curricular work around a particular topic. Similarly, many students teachers are asked to plan their lessons for teaching practice around a particular theme. Whatever your reason for...
2010 CESI Conference

2010 CESI Conference

A very successful CESI Conference was held last weekend in Portlaoise. “Creative Technology for Challenging Times” was the theme of the conference. The Heritage Hotel was the venue on Friday night for the CESI Teach-Meet where there was a great variety of two-minute,...
3M Roadwise Interactive Website

3M Roadwise Interactive Website

I just discovered this website today and quickly could see how this would be of huge benefit to the primary school classroom. The website is sponsored by the multinational 3M which makes, among other things, reflective clothing for the emergency services, construction...
New Wordle Resources

New Wordle Resources

  There are now some new Wordle resources added onto the Seomra Ranga website. I first heard about Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) at this years CESI conference and I’m only really now getting around to using it. Wordle is a very simple online piece of software which...
New Christmas Website

New Christmas Website

A new Seomra Ranga website has just been launched. The Christmas @ Seomra Ranga website is dedicated to Christmas resources for use in the primary school classroom. Among the many resources contained on the site are: Christmas posters and signs Seasonal flashcards...
Logainmneacha na hÉireann

Logainmneacha na hÉireann

Logainm is a new website containing a database of the placenames of Ireland. The site comes in an English version or a Gaeilge version and you can switch between both quite easily. The purpose of the site is to make available to the public Irish place names that have...