by admin | Dec 11, 2016 | Teaching News, Technology
After the unexpected success of the Hallowe’en Twitter Project, where so many schools Tweeted about what they were doing in their classrooms on the theme of Hallowe’en, I immediately thought that such a Twitter project would be great to do at Christmas....
by admin | Dec 11, 2016 | Apps, Technology
Seesaw is an app for the development of student digital portfolios. It allows the teacher to set up “journals” for each of the pupils in the class. The pupil can then upload their work to their journal in the form of photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs...
by admin | Nov 16, 2016 | Apps
Tá Aip nua spleodrach thaitneamhach ar fáil anois ar Sheinnteoir Cúla4. Cruthaíodh agus leagadh amach go speisialta í chun ábhar mealltach, spraíúil Gaeilge a chur ar fáil do dhaoine óga. Tá ábhar Cúla4 le fáil uirthi agus déantar an t-ábhar a nuashonrú gach lá. Tá...
by admin | Oct 23, 2016 | Technology
I’ve been so preoccupied with my own work at school, that I’d quite forgotten about organising the fifth Signs of Autumn Twitter Project this term. Given that Autumn is already well on the road and winter is gradually approaching, I thought that we might...
by admin | Oct 16, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, Oral Work, Science, Technology
We’re doing some work on animal homes at the moment as part of a theme on Houses and Homes. We did lots of work on identifying the names of a variety of animals and the names of the special homes that they live in. As part of a follow-up to those lessons, I...