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It’s hard to believe that Ireland’s weekly education chat on Twitter, Edchatie, has just celebrated its 50th chat. Based on the international edchat model started by Tom Whitby, this fantastic initiative was started by Fred Boss, who people may know from his work with the NCTE. For those who have not yet heard of Edchatie, | Read on…

In part 1, I gave a brief summary of what emotional intelligence and how it has developed along the way. I’d like to look at the link between school leadership and emotional intelligence. I was forwarded on an article on this very subject a while back. It makes for interesting reading, here’s the main points. | Read on…

The primary school curriculum asks us to make mathematics a real life experience. In the main, this is nice and easy as the concepts taught in primary schools are basic enough to transfer into real life. 2 + 2 = 4 can be shown easily as a real life situation: Take 2 objects and another | Read on…

At the CESI conference, I gave a workshop to show teachers how to make a simple app for a Smartphone. One question I was asked frequently throughout the workshop was how did I create the absence note on the app. The video below gives step by step instructions to do this. If you have any | Read on…

In the last year, school principals have been put under unrelenting pressure on top of their own position in their school. A raft of circulars, changes and cuts have hit the primary and secondary school sector and I can sense that there is a lot of anger out there. Principal are at snapping point. Or, | Read on…

Anseo.net have teamed up with IMEX to offer teachers the opportunity to get a free MOBI Interactive Pad.  Mobi View does everything a fixed interactive whiteboard does at a fraction of the cost. It is also handheld so it can be passed around the classroom. It even works with any brand of system so no | Read on…

The Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) hosted their annual conference in Portlaoise this weekend. It was the biggest one yet with far more attendees than I’ve ever seen before. For those of you who haven’t attended a CESI conference, it comes in two parts – the CESI Meet on the Friday evening and | Read on…

I’ve been playing about with Pinterest for a few days after I was very kindly sent an invite from Little Angels Special School in Donegal who have a super web site as well as Pinterest site. What is Pinterest and why are people very excited by it? Pinterest describe themselves as a virtual pinboard and | Read on…

What are you doing this February 29th? Proposing to your future husband? If not, you should try out blogging. Feb29th.net is a global blogging project that is the brainchild of UK teacher, David Mitchell.  The web site hopes to collect blog posts from all around the world. According to the web site, As soon as Feb | Read on…

I have just released my second app called Targetboard Grids and I was surprised by how easy it was to do this time. All I needed to know was how to make a simple table in HTML and fill it in with numbers or letters.  Add a splash of colour and it was ready to | Read on…