Category Archives: Learning

Posts about me trying to better myself, through education!

Final Year Project

Right. Final Year Project, Day One. I need to decide on a topic – a “Research Question” – if you will. There are several ideas floating around in my head at the moment, some of which are clearly more viable … Continue reading

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One down…

Well, I decided to take a short break from tonight’s studying to give a quick rundown of my day. The oul’ nerves finally decided to kick in – about an hour before the exam! At that stage, being nervous is … Continue reading

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Exam Jitters… I Wish!

It’s the night before my first exam, and normally at this stage the nerves are starting to show. And that’s a good thing, because it shows that I actually care about how I’m going to do. I generally find it … Continue reading

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New Year!

You know, it’s not that I had forgotten this blog was here. It’s not even that I have too busy to post. Call it what you will, I have realised this evening that it is 8 months (months! yes! eight … Continue reading

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Teaching Week 2

So, I have finished my first day of the second week of teaching practice. I was pretty happy with my progress last Friday, some classes went well, some not so well, but overall I thought the week went well. Today’s … Continue reading

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Late night?

I’m starting to panic now, I think. Tomorrow is my first day of teaching practice. I am trying to get a lesson plan done for my double class with the first years. A nice little topic – Separating Mixtures. Problem … Continue reading

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Holidays!

So, the exams are over. And, truth be told, they were fine. No real problems, although one should have gone better than it did. But, I’m not complaining. I’m back at home again, in West Kerry. So, no broadband again. … Continue reading

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Exam Time

So, I’m back in Dublin, after a lovely four weeks at home in Kerry. Having broadband again is great. It’s exam time again, and I had my first one today. After two weeks of feeling completely complacent, I had a … Continue reading

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Moodle Installation

Right. It’s been over a week. I’m not quite doing as well at this as I had hoped. One reason I haven’t given any updates is that for the past week or so I have been trying to install Moodle … Continue reading

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Hello!

Right, so here we are. After all the kerfuffle (is that how it’s spelled?), I have finally managed to get wordpress set up, and running. I had thought that my first post would be easy enough to write, but that’s … Continue reading

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