“Open Source”, two little words that when combined offer a world of creativity, communication and problem solving. We all have our go to apps and programmes that we would be lost without but what happens when the cost of the proprietary software you need makes it prohibitive? It’s at that point that most of us […]
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It is hard to believe that the month of June is almost over – where has it gone? After a busy school year, students are finishing the last of their state exams today and primary schools will finish in the next 10 days. Soon, everyone gets a chance to unwind and have a break. In
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In the junior classes we are continuously working towards getting the children to become fluent readers. There are so many different ways to help promote fluency in the classroom and one of my newest and most favourite ways is using audioBoom. AudioBoom is a free platform that allows anyone to record and share podcasts. In
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I’ve noticed that a number of schools are setting up new school websites either with Scoilnet blogs or with WordPress.com, which is fantastic. These provide schools with a great opportunity to communicate their news and the pupils achievements with the school community. The one thing that I do notice on these sites is that the
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Promethean have been regularly updating their ClassFlow – Cloud Based Lesson Presentation and Assessment toolkit over the last twelve months or so. Every two to three months a new or updated version has been released. For users using tablet computers and the ClassFlow Student and/or the ClassFlow Teacher apps, each new version update also meant
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H2 Learning are running a two-day OneNote course on the 22nd and 23rd of June. The workshop style course will take place in Dublin West Education Centre. Beginners to intermediate users are welcome and all should bring their own laptop and/or tablet device. OneNote can be downloaded for free beforehand by visiting www.onenote.com . Contact
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Any time a school opens a new classroom, the DES give a grant of €5,000 to stock it with ICT equipment. It’s a very generous grant and much appreciated by those who receive it, but how does one best spend it? There are a number of basics that every classroom should have though and no matter
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Anytime, anywhere access to your files is an important feature of computing today. The days of carrying a USB stick from home to school with Lesson Plans, Notes and Schemes should be a thing of the past! Files accessed and modified on a computer or tablet in school can be accessed from home if the
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School Intranet Sites School intranet sites offer schools the opportunity to share information and resources in a private and secure manner accessible anywhere anytime via a web browser. This means the sites are available from the internet but are not open to the public. Office 365 for Education users have the ability to create both
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What is available? MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses have been all the rage for the past few years with some claiming that they will disrupt our existing model of higher education and open education to the masses. Well that has not happened as yet but they are certainly opening up new opportunities for learning,
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