Archive | December, 2008

Bhí Ocras Orm

6 Dec

        

Anseo.net introduces its first fully-featured piece of software for 2008-09.  Bhí Ocras Orm is an interactive Gaeilge resource. It is first and foremost a computerised book which tells the story of a boy who keeps eating until he get a “pian in a bholg”.  There are 6 interactive games to support the book all of which | Read on…

Batt Rows Back

4 Dec

        

So Batt O’Keefe has finally cracked…albeit useless for primary schools.  For some reason, he has decided to allow substitute cover for second level school but not for primary schools… yet.  According to RTE, Batt O’Keefe is willing to listen to sensible suggestions from primary level regarding sub cover.  So how about acknowledging publicly that he | Read on…

Are Interactive Whiteboards All That?

1 Dec

        

I encountered Interactive Whiteboards for the first time when I trained to be a teacher in 2002.  A year or so before, the Welsh government had given every school in Wales an Interactive Whiteboard, (with full training), and every teacher was able to use it.  The Interactive Whiteboard usually resided in a computer room or | Read on…