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If I want to find out about a school for a particular reason, the first thing I do is look for their web site. There’s very few schools opened in the last 5 years that don’t have a web site. That is, with the exception, of the 5 VEC schools in Ireland. If one searches | Read on…

The following article was written by 2 sixth class pupils in St. Martin de Porres NS in Dublin. Their teacher is Anne McMorrough, a well known primary school teacher in ICT circles. I’m delighted that the children got so much out of Twitter and I look forward to trying it out again! Over to you | Read on…

The first Twitter in Irish Primary Schools experiment was a success. With 120 tweets and 21 users contributing over the week, there was plenty of scope for learning. For those of you who missed the previous two articles, the first Twitter experiment focussed on the primary Geography curriculum where schools were asked to talk about | Read on…

The draw of the Mediascene Interactive Whiteboard Competition

The first week of the Twitter Experiment ended on Friday and a total of 21 Irish primary schools and 120 tweets were broadcast using the hashtag #twexp1.  I had expected a much smaller uptake for the week so was delighted to see the number of schools tweeting.  The focus of #twexp1 (TWitter EXPeriment 1) was | Read on…

To everyone who joined us in our first Twitter Experiment, thank you for agreeing to join us again for part two! There are a couple of changes to writing tweets, for example, we’re able to do this without the hashtag from the previous experiment. For those of you who are new, you’re very welcome to | Read on…

Well, it’s over! The filming, that is and now to the really hard and finnicky bit-the editing! WE have been filming for about a month, we went way over schedule due to a very tricky dance scene, relocation, over zealous students and the general day to day that is school life! The Editing team consists | Read on…

Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen how we don’t need to simply learn any of the tables by rote.  We’ve reduced the 121 facts to learn down to just 4: 3×3, 3×6, 3×7 and 3×8. Now there is a strategy for all 3 times tables, which most maths teachers introduce after the four | Read on…

Go to any search engine and type in “Twitter and education” and you’ll get hundreds of web sites, which show how great Twitter is for educational purposes.  I’ve scoured through many of these web sites looking at ways that I could introduce Twitter to the children in my school.  While all the suggestions for using | Read on…

Promethean has today unveiled a new look Promethean Planet (www.PrometheanPlanet.com) to provide members with a faster, easier and more enhanced user experience.  Available free in 11 languages, this next generation of Planet aims to provide its 600,000 plus teaching members with new functional enhancements. These include a one-click mega-menu and enhanced resource search and filtering, | Read on…