Just a very quick post to let you know that I will be taking part in Pora Ora’s Real Teachers Twitter Takeover campaign for the week starting tomorrow. You can ask me any questions relating to education. Anything from technology in classrooms to equality of access to education in Ireland and anything in between. If I don’t … Read more
I managed to attend a second #DojoChatEU in a row last week, moderated by Ciara Brennan on the subject of Technology in the Classroom. Ciara asked several questions on the topic and I thought it might be a good idea to summarise my own feelings as well as other in the chat. You can read all … Read more
This week marked Anseo.net’s 10th anniversary. Back on April 15th, 2005, I bought the domain, Anseo.net with the goal of encouraging teachers to share their resources and ideas with each other. Back then, Anseo.net was not a blog and a fairly static affair relying on people to email their ideas and resources. One could say, if it wasn’t a … Read more
Digital Art Week is back for another year. For those of you who haven’t done it yet, Digital Art Week gives primary school children around Ireland the opportunity to share their art with other children around the country and complete some fun visual arts activities. As it’s digital, over the course of the week, schools … Read more
It can be hard to encourage creativity in the classroom. Students complain of not knowing what to write about so where do writers start and where do they get their ideas from? One of the ways good writers work is to use writing prompts. A writing prompt is a topic around which you start scribbling or jotting down … Read more
#DojochatEU is a Twitter hashtag for an event that happens every Wednesday from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. Yesterday evening was the first opportunity I had to join in and I am hoping to be able to take part as often as I can as part of my ClassDojo ambassadorship. I thought it might be a good … Read more
Congratulations to Aoife Egan who has won Anseo.net’s March competition with thanks to Prim-Ed. She has won a bundle of CD-ROMs from Prim-Ed and we’re looking forward to hearing how she gets on with them. In order to enter any of our giveaways, all you need to do is subscribe to our weekly newsletter. One subscriber is … Read more
The headline grabber from the INTO congress was Jan O’Sullivan’s announcement that new enrollment guidelines will now be enacted. The media have decided to set their focus on one aspect of the new guidelines: now schools can only prioritise the enrollment of 10% of past pupils. It has been taken on to such an extent that one … Read more
Using Similes in Creative Writing in the Classroom Grammar and creative writing? They sound wrong together. Some people think that creative writing is all about the flow, the emotion, the themes and they forget about their grammar. They are right in one way. Good writing does stir and emotion and gets the reader asking questions … Read more
You may not know but Simon and I have two educational websites! We have anseo.net and mash.ie. Anseo.net is for all opinions, reviews and posts on education and technology. Mash.ie is a thematic teaching and planning website, designed to help teachers share and to reward teachers for sharing. Mash.ie developed out of a question. Why … Read more