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So far, we’ve whipped through the tables at breakneck speed so it’s probably time to slow things down a little.  Speaking of time, that’s what we’re going to use for our next strategy.  I think the clock is a great way to help children learn the five times tables.  The analogue clock is familiar to | Read on…

Kerry-based company Liosdoire have announced they will be selling the Fizzbook Spin in the coming weeks.  According to the web site, Fizzbook.com: The Fizzbook Spin is the first mini-tablet PC for children designed with a measured and thoughtful approach to understanding the real needs of children and young adults. The Spin wasn’t born in a | Read on…

At the Tipperary Institute of Technology, as well as giving the keynote talk, I also gave a workshop entitled: “Becoming a member of the Twitterati”, which brought participants through signing up to Twitter, writing a tweet, following people and getting following, marking favourites and finally some recommendations of Twitter users to follow. Below is the | Read on…

As promised at a workshop I gave earlier today, here is a list of some of the people/organisations I follow on Twitter. They are probably more relevant to the primary school teacher.  I’ll have a podcast of this workshop as well as a full report on the conference soon. @daynuv @rozzlewis @lismiss @sccenglish @seomranga @castledrumns | Read on…

Memory Bank is a wholesale provider of technology products and services. They supply companies with thousands of products but don’t sell directly themselves. They asked me to have a look at a product that they believe would be useful to schools – a Network Attached Storage device, or NAS to those who like abbreviations. So | Read on…

So far in our series, we’ve learned some strategies to lessen our load when learning tables.  We haven’t yet had to learn anything off and we’re already down to the last 28 tables.  In this lesson we’re going to lose another 7 tables, bringing us down to 21.  This strategy takes a good amount of | Read on…

Computer rooms were on top of every primary school’s wishlist back in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  In some cases, companies like Intel and HP were involved in sponsorship deals where they kitted out schools with completely networked solutions.  My first two schools both had computer rooms.  Every week I would usher 30 excited | Read on…

I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to review this interactive whiteboard as Mimio has been around for years.  In my reviews, I often mention eBeam and Mimio in the same sentence due to their very similar technology.  This is much to the annoyance of  Mimio as they believe they have a different | Read on…

Last week, we started our auditions. The executive directors( Mrs Cole and I) sat down with the producer( 6th class student) and had a chat about what we wanted. Our film is based in our school and has a dance theme, no, it’s not fame or anything! We won’t reveal too much now but we | Read on…

In the last session we learned that by learning nothing off by heart, we could reduce the number of number facts to be learned off from 121 to 35.  For me, that’s not good enough so in this session I’m going to reduce them by another 8 so we’ll be down to 27.  After that, | Read on…