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The great thing about blogging compared to, for example, print media is that if you write something that’s inaccurate, you can go back and make changes. My first impression of the Traceboard when I met it two years ago was that it was a Smartboard clone. I gave it a fairly average review and it | Read on…

We all know that primary schools are underfunded. We all know that the government pays for about 60% of the actual costs of running primary schools through capitation and ancillary grants. We all know that parents have to make up the rest of the costs of schooling their children through cake sales and voluntary contributions. | Read on…

Last night was the beginning of the first CESI conference outside of Dublin in years.  As is now the norm, it began with a TeachMeet in the Heritage Hotel in Portlaoise.  As my wife and I checked into the hotel, we bumped into one of the organisers, he was panicking in a good way.  They | Read on…

Although arranged by the Second Level Support Service, some talks are being held later this month about co-operative learning. It may be useful to some of you. Application forms, etc. can be found on the SLSS web site. Here’s the press release: We are delighted to announce details of our forthcoming Cooperative Learning conferences in | Read on…

These Gaeilge books were sent to me by a good friend of mine to share with people. She made them for her very young class so there are no words in them. They can be printed in A3 for an A4 book for class reading. They’re perfect for whole-class reading and will look great in | Read on…

As well as recording our interviewees’ voices, Rozz snapped some photographs of them too. For those of you who missed Thursday morning, there’s a couple of photographs of the specially made IPPN cupcakes.

IPPN heroes by Rozz Lewis. Well, I’m on a downer and a contradictory high after my second IPPN conference, which was moved to the CityWest conference centre this year. My verdict? Excellent. My inspiration levels are at an alltime high. My heroes? 1. Sean Cotrell- An amazing speech maker and public speaker, he speaks from | Read on…

The NCTE have not installed broadband in my school yet. Since my school opened in September 2008, we have been paying Eircom €30 per month for a service we should be getting free. However, after trying to set up a video conference with another school on the broadband scheme, perhaps it might be just as | Read on…

Anseo.net bought a digital dictaphone and decided to go into the podcasting business. Our roving reporter, Rozz, took to the virtual airwaves for the first time at the Irish Primary Principals Network (IPPN) conference. She recorded a number of podcasts, which we’ll be uploading over the next while. Anseo.net would like to note that the | Read on…