The Internet is all-pervasive in today’s world and it is increasingly becoming an essential element of all our lives. There is now a real need to educate all in society on how to use this powerful technology in meaningful ways. All too often people only use it to navigate and consume other people’s ideas and […]
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A blog can provide content or comments on a myriad of things; politics, business, education, sport or entertainment often prove to be a rich source of content for a blog. A blog can also be dedicated to something that the blogger is passionate about! Writing a blog post creates the opportunity for reaching a worldwide
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Last year Damien Mulley announced that he was ending the Irish Blog Awards just in time for me to pluck up the confidence to enter Anseo.net so I was delighted when I heard that my friends in the KLCK Bloggers’ Network decided to take it on. The Blog Awards Ireland will be happening later this
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Last month, I was quoted in the Irish Examiner saying that this would be the year of the teacher blog. In the last year, I have noticed that there has been a steady increase in the number of teachers who have decided to blog about teaching and learning and I believe that there are going
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The power of Twitter for educators has been well illustrated by others in previous posts on this blog. For most of us, when we first set up our Twitter account, we tend to use the Twitter website as the place we go to read and post tweets. This is how I started also; however as
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If you’re a regular follower of the TeachNet blog, you will have noticed that we have been very quiet during the Summer. But we haven’t gone away you know. We took a break so that we could focus on our online Summer courses for primary techers. We are delighted to say that they have been
