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Digital Storytelling using Powerpoint 2010 in a Junior Infants Classroom

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This is the story of a digital storytelling project that I have undertaken with my class of 25 junior infant boys using ICT to enhance learning in Literacy in their first year in primary school. Having considered a number of possible technologies, I finally decided on Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010. I selected this piece of content free software to […]

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Virtual XP update

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I recently wrote about creating Virtual Windows XP’s so that schools could creatively extend the life cycle of their XP PC’s on newer PC’s after Microsoft ends their support of this popular OS on the 8th of April. In the post I outlined the process involved in using Parallels Workstation to create a virtual XP

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Tynkering With Code

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     Learning to code is a popular topic in educational circles these days and rightly so I think. When young people code their own apps, games, stories, or websites they have a chance to think critically, troubleshoot, problem solve, and collaborate. It’s a way to create something real that can be seen and used

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Have a Safer Internet Day!

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[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/84669555[/vimeo] Safer Internet Day (SID) is a global campaign that promotes a healthy Internet for everyone. It will be celebrated on Tuesday 11th February 2014. This international annual event takes place every February to promote safe and responsible use of the internet and mobile phone technologies, especially amongst children and young people. Safer Internet Day is organised

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Microsoft ChronoZoom

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ChronoZoom is another great free educational tool from Microsoft Research. It is an open source timeline tool that allows teachers and students to create interactive timelines.It is an online tool and opens directly into the Cosmos timeline. As the user zooms inwards. we pass through Earth, Life, Prehistory and Humanity segments. Within ChronoZoom, these segments

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Scoilnet Maps

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As I settled into completing my plans for SESE for 2014 the gale force winds and rain hammered the windows of the house. The rain and the flooding got me to thinking of the floods surrounding our school in Harolds Cross, Dublin in 2011. I was wondering how I would acquire enough maps for the

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