Blogging With Kidblog

Blogging With Kidblog

Over the past few years I had read about other educators using Kidblog to get their pupils blogging. I didn’t delve into it too much as I had been teaching younger pupils for the past few years. However, now that I moved back up to 6th class, I decided to...
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 3

ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 3

This is the third of David Ganly’s ICT in the Classroom eBulletins. David teaches in Donabate Community College and he says that the eBulletin started off as an idea he had to engage and encourage teachers in his school to use ICT in the classroom. After putting the...
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 2

ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 2

This is the second of David Ganly’s ICT in the Classroom eBulletins. David teaches in Donabate Community College and he says that the eBulletin started off as an idea he had to engage and encourage teachers in his school to use ICT in the classroom. After...
ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 01

ICT in the Classroom eBulletin – Issue 01

I came across these newsletters through the CESI mailing list and thought that they contained great information on technology for teachers in the classroom. I’m grateful to David Ganly, a teacher in Donabate Community College, for allowing me to make these...
Scratch

Scratch

I’m doing the NCTE summer course on Scratch Programming and Numeracy in Senior Primary Classes this week. I’d heard and read a lot about Scratch over the years but knew virtually nothing about how to work it or how it could be used in the classroom....
Web 2.0 in Infant Classes

Web 2.0 in Infant Classes

Some months ago, infant teacher Mary Jo Bell wrote a Guest Post on this blog about Infants and ICT which was well received at the time. Mary Jo has now teamed up with the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) to produce a great video demonstrating the...