Vincent Hyland Learning is a Kerry-based company founded by the man himself. Vincent is a multi-talented filmmaker, artist and musician and will be featuring on RTE’s “Living the Wildlife” in May 2010. Vincent sent me a copy of his DVD, “Puffins” from the Learn to Care scheme, a set of programmes he has developed himself. … Read more
Vincent Hyland Learning is a Kerry-based company founded by the man himself. Vincent is a multi-talented filmmaker, artist and musician and will be featuring on RTE’s “Living the Wildlife” in May 2010. Vincent sent me a copy of his DVD, “Puffins” from the Learn to Care scheme, a set of programmes he has developed himself. … Read more
I have used dry wipe markers on the Genee Powerboard. However, Prim-Ed, the distributors of the GeneeBoard are not recommending customers to use dry-wipe markers on their boards. If you do buy a GeneeBoard, a leaflet drops out of the box telling the customer not to use dry wipe markers on the board. Being honest, … Read more
My Twitter username is simonmlewis – the “m” is my middle initial. I had to do this because someone had already taken the username, simonlewis. Anyway, a lot of people must forget to insert my middle initial when referring to me in Twitter. I love when I check my Twitter account and see “mentions” of … Read more
Every so often, a piece of software comes along which tries to steal the crown from Promethean’s Activ Software series. Easyteach from RM was the last challenger and it wasn’t bad. It had many advantages over the Promethean software – with lots of add-ons for maths, phonics, science and even a dance mat! However, although … Read more
Every so often, a piece of software comes along which tries to steal the crown from Promethean’s Activ Software series. Easyteach from RM was the last challenger and it wasn’t bad. It had many advantages over the Promethean software – with lots of add-ons for maths, phonics, science and even a dance mat! However, although … Read more
With the news that Bebo may soon be no more, I asked colleagues was it likely that teenagers would move to Facebook. One of these replies came from a teacher from Bonnybrook Youthreach and she has given me permission to publish her own findings. Sadly for me, in her opinion, students who abandon Bebo more … Read more
I’ve been using Twitter for a while now and am about to tweet for the 1,000th time. Whenever you near some sort of milestone in your life, you tend to reflect a little bit. While I realise reflecting on the number of Twitter messages I’ve written confirms me as a complete geek, I wanted to … Read more
1. Keynote Speakers The Tipperary Institute have an interesting lineup of keynote speakers this year that includes Simon Lewis – Carlow Educate Together NS, the college’s own Bernie Goldbach, and Mark Little – Digital Age Broadcast Journalist. 2. Friday Evening CESI Meet This year the committee have worked closely with CESI to synchronise their 4th CESI Meet with … Read more
When the iPad was launched a few weeks ago, I smirked at the “fools” who queued up for days to get their hands on one. “Sure, it’s just a giant iPhone”, I muttered in condescending tones. All the reviews on the web, in newspapers and in magazines were lukewarm too. It doesn’t multitask and it has … Read more