Minecraft for Education – Worlds of Possibility A last call out to potential participants for our two July blended (Face-to-face & online) Minecraft for Education courses. Join the Dream Space team for two days next week (July 4th & 5th or July 6th and 7th) in Microsoft Dream Space (One Microsoft Place, Leopardstown, Dublin) for […]
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Recently at the hairdressers I had some time to kill. With my Android phone in hand I set about exploring some of the new updates to Microsoft apps available on mobile. Read on if you would like some quick and easy options for increasing your productivity while on the move. Technology is supposed to make
TeachNet is delighted to once again be offering the EPV-day approved summer course ‘Using Google Workspace in the Primary Classroom’. Following on from a successful first iteration in 2021, the course returns with an improved learning experience for the participants. The course could be labelled as a ‘one-stop shop’ when it comes to learning about
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Over the years many TeachNet blog contributors have waxed lyrical about the Microsoft Educator Center (MEC) and rightly so IMHO as MEC has been the stellar educator portal since its inception, providing a fantastic range of resources and development opportunities to teachers for free, including courses, classroom resources, lesson plans, options to connect with other
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Those of you who attended the 2020 CESI conference might have heard Darren Ralston and I present as former Albemarle County Instructional and Ed Tech coaches. You might have thought that the concept of educational coaching in Ireland was a bit ahead of its time but some recent movements by the major tech companies and the pandemic
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For Summer 2022, TeachNet in association with Microsoft Education Ireland, are delivering 5 blended courses (Face-to-face & online), 3 Minecraft for Education and 2 Dream Space STEM in the Primary Classroom Join the Dream Space team for two days in Microsoft Dream Space (One Microsoft Place, Leopardstown, Dublin) to take part in hands-on, curricular focused
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Introducing Loom Loom is a handy piece of screen casting software that can be use from the Chrome browser, from the desktop and on your mobile device. It will record your screen and camera. You can capture content in any application on any device. Before you even think about sharing, you can edit the recording
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Irish Schools have met many challenges over the last number of years. Just when we are exiting the crisis caused by Covid another fresh challenge has presented itself with the large influx of children from the Ukraine as a result of the current war there. By the middle of May 2022 over 6000 children from
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“Sir, I don’t remember learning this. It was a long time ago!” “I’m trying to cram for these exams but it is a lot of information to remember….” These are just some of the statements that I hear from students in April/May of each year as the final preparations set in for their Junior and
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This week my students and I had really interesting discussions about the role of social media (and the internet in general) in providing platforms for those individuals who wish to ‘cancel’ others. We discussed what the term meant and whether it was in fact nothing more than a ‘new’ way to enforce ‘political correctness’. We
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