TeachNet Learning Blog

The National Library of Ireland began a project in 2007 to digitise their photographic collection of rare and glass plate negatives. This week they launched their enhanced collection of digitised photographs bringing their total today to over 34,000 photos. These photos come from The Lawrence Collection (1870 – 1914), Eason’s postcard series (1900 – 1940), [...]

Last year on the TeachNet Blog we highlighted the first episode of a new historical audio drama series on the life of Irish explorer Tom Crean and now episode two is available for download. Based upon real events, ‘Tom Crean: Sailor on Ice’ is an original audio drama of Tom Crean’s Antarctic Adventures, based [...]

Many teachers are already using Google maps to enhance their teaching and students learning in the primary classroom. Scribble maps is a very useful online tool that allows teachers to bring Google maps a step further in their classroom.
http://www.scribblemaps.com/
What is it?
Scribble maps allows you to edit and customise your own Google maps. Teachers and [...]

eTwinning is a framework for schools to collaborate over the internet with other partner schools from around Europe. Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) two or more schools from two or more European countries can work in partnership on a project of their choosing. The eTwinning portal can be found at www.etwinning.net
A bilateral Ireland-UK eTwinning [...]