Two pupils from 4th/ 5th class recycled some junk material to make some super sculptures!Ben created a interesting sculpture using old CD cases, pencils, bottle tops and re-used cardboard.

Joey used an old music box, a large paper clamp, some used batteries and his imagination to make his fighter plane.

Have a look!

There were comments at the CESI conference regarding the logo that anseo.net uses.  Generally, there was confusion with the first letter and many people were typing the “@” symbol instead of the letter “a”.  I have introduced a new logo, which aims to address this.

Also, logging in has been made easier.  You can now log in by typing in your username and password on any screen on the blog.  once, logged in, you can choose from a list of options, which will appear on the right hand side of the screen.

Apologies to anyone trying to blog since the CESI conference.  Due to its success at the conference, @nseo.net upgraded its server.  However, in that process some downtime occurred and a temporary @nseo.net replaced it.  Things are fine now and we look forward to offering a faster service with new ideas coming all the time.

Inspired by some of the talks at CESI, and the fluke that my mobile phone is a Sony Ericsson, I set up a new blog - an educational mobile-phone blog – or EduMoBlog.

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CESI, the Computers in Education Society of Ireland, hold an annual conference and this year I was lucky enough to be selected to give a workshop called Blogging in Primary – essentially how to use a blog in primary schools.  My main purpose was to show how easy it is for schools to set up a blog and write up blog entries.  I used @nseo.net to allow participants to practice.  (more…)

There seems to have been very little thought put into the implications for teachers of introducing special needs assistants into schools in Ireland.  This is unfair to both teachers and to those who take up posts as special needs assistants. While some teachers see the SNA as an asset in the classroom, the majority do not seem to know how to treat this intruder into their classroom and some are positively hostile seeing them as an unwanted intrusion in their terrritory.

Hi there! Just to let you know that our school, Gorey Educate Together NS, has been busy uploading loads of photos and videos to our web site.  There are two videos that 4th class made and lots of photos from 4th and 5th class.  3rd class have put up pictures from the books they have been reading too!  Our web site is www.goreyeducatetogether.ie – see you there!

I’ve added two new photo albums to the @nseo gallery.  The first album contains photos from the Nicholas Mosse Pottery Museum and Workshop in Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny.  The second contains photos from a trip to Wicklow Gaol in Wicklow Town.