As I spend more and more time in front of a screen reading text, attending meetings, delivering classes and professional learning and development opportunities for other educators, the more difficult I am finding it to engage with my own professional learning in the way that I did pre pandemic. Pre March 2020, I loved a […]
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“Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place, letting educators create vibrant learning environments. Build collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and connect with colleagues – all from a single experience.” Microsoft To put it more succinctly, Teams is a powerful digital hub that centralises learning,
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When I started working in the Further Education and Training sector and Christmas arrived, I was at a loss on what to do to bring some Christmas cheer into the classroom without making it too ‘childlike’. This dilemma became more difficult when our classes moved online. In this blog post, I will share a few
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In the past few weeks, Microsoft officially launched Microsoft Viva and made some substantial changes to Microsoft Educator Centre. Microsoft Viva is a product aimed at employee engagement within MS Teams. It consists of a number of parts but one element of interest to educators is the Viva Learning section.The Learning section in Viva combines
Technology Enhanced Learning Mentoring Support- TELMS For the past 4 years, I have worked as a TEL mentor in the City of Dublin Education and Training Board. The main goal of our mentoring process is to enhance the learning and teaching experience for both teachers and their students. It all started out with an Erasmus+
Some years ago, while participating in teacher CPD, I found myself having an aha moment. One of the other course participants was delivering a presentation and at the end she told this story of how in her school all of the teachers appear to ‘walk the walk’. Through her eyes, teachers walk the corridors with
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Many teachers I suspect still bear the scars of emergency remote teaching (ERT), sufferers of “Death by Zoom (Teams, SeeSaw, Google Classroom or whatever was your remote learning tool of necessity). Indeed for some, these tools are now firmly fixed in the rear-view mirror and will (Fingers crossed) stay there. However, following the recent unprecedented
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Now in it’s 26th year, Science Week 2021 kicked off yesterday and runs until November 14th with the focus this year on “Creating Our Future, a national conversation between the general public, the research community and policy makers…” Science Week 2021 aims to give the public inspiration for ideas for the Creating Our Future campaign by providing
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4 Tips for adding ‘INTERACTIVE’ to your Interactive Whiteboard! Some years ago, I spent a great deal of time creating interactive activities to use on my interactive whiteboard (IWB), probably after spending an even greater deal of time failing to find a ready to use activity. The rather temperamental cable connection, stylus or wifi lag
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We have all witnessed over the past 20 months the huge increase in the number of tools, apps, and platforms available to support learning and teaching in the classroom, whether virtual or in the return to the face-to-of face environment. Some of us were aware of these tools beforehand, but perhaps didn’t really see or
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