The installation of an Interactive White Board (IWB) in a classroom is a positive step towards assisting with the integration of ICT as a teaching and learning resource into the various curriculum strand and strand units that we teach daily. However the IWB and the coupled software are only presentation tools and the teacher needs …
If you are new to ICT or feel you need a refresher, you should try an online course onALISON. Based in Galway, ALISON provides high-quality, easy to follow interactive multimedia courses. All courses on ALISON are accessible for free to individual learners. All you need to do is register yourself by choosing your own name …
Despite the “doom and gloom” and the lack of Government investment in ICT, schools throughout Ireland are taking matters into their own hands and raising funds to purchase interactive whiteboards (IWBs). Drumcondra Education Centre have been hosting the Interactive Whiteboards Project. For the past 4 years, 14 North Dublin primary and second level schools have …
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SEN Teacher The SEN Teacher website http://www.senteacher.org/Print/has a bank of 48 printable free resources that the busy primary teacher will find very useful. While the resources are aimed at the special educational needs teacher, mainstream class teachers from infants to the senior end of the primary school will find them useful. Each printable resource …
The Budget brought many unseen cutbacks to our schools which have left me stunned. How a Minister for Education can allow Ireland to slip to last in Europe on the issue of class size defies belief. When Ireland was one of the wealthiest nations on the planet we should have been investing in education to …
21st Century Skills – the backdrop There has been a great deal of discussion recently on the issue of 21st century learning, particularly in the US. There are a number of websites dealing with the issue of 21st century learning but my favourite is the Partnership for 21st Century (www.21stcenturyskills.org). 21st Century Learning is very …
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (U.K.) on one of their sites The Standard Sites has over 30 interactive teaching programmes for Primary Mathematics at http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframeworks/library/Mathematics/ICTResources/itps/ The programmes will support teachers in teaching the number, data, shape and space and measurement strands of the revised primary school curriculum. They are particularly suitable for use …
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The arrival of an Interactive White Board (IWB) presents a number of interesting challenges as well as the need to re-examine your teaching methodologies. It will take a substantial amount of time for a teacher to develop his/her own bank of educational resources. After the initial settling in period and getting over the fun of …
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We have been doing a lot of work with schools over the past two years usingPhotoStory, a free tool from Microsoft – yes I did say free from Microsoft. Easy to use and great for combining photos, text and music, it is being used to great effect by young pupils to create stories in history, …
www.pppst.com This is a website (Pete’s Power Point Station) I came across that was recommended to readers of another teacher’s blog. The site has a vast number of free Powerpoint presentations which can be downloaded by teachers for their own use. It is suitable for both primary and secondary schools and the teacher can amend …
