Second-level – Page 17

“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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Dec 6 2021

Viva Forever?

By John Heffernan

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

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Nov 24 2021

Break Down the Walls of your Classroom and Build YOUR PLN!

By Ashley Stephens

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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Nov 22 2021

Online Assessments via Google Forms

By Evin Devenney

The rise in the use of digital technologies in secondary schools for teaching and learning purposes is widely evident, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic, whereby emergency remote learning has been a major factor in student’s learning over the past two academic years. Despite technology being utilised as an educational tool for teaching and learning, such

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Nov 18 2021

National Geographic MapMaker

By Paul Munroe

National Geographic MapMaker is a nice mapping tool that I’ve used in the past with my students. It was recently updated with an improved user interface, additional data sets, and more annotation tools. With NatGeo MapMaker you can create custom maps to display datasets, to compare datasets and to illustrate correlations and geographical points. National Geographic MapMaker includes

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Nov 15 2021

Digital Learning – Where to now?

By Pat Brennan

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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Nov 8 2021

Creating Our Future – #ScienceWeek 2021

By Pat Brennan

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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Nov 4 2021

Interactive Whiteboard or Projector?

By Frances O'Donnell

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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Oct 21 2021

Book Creator – Developing the Writing Process

By Eoghan O'Neill

Much of the narrative around education currently surrounds what children have lost out on and how they have regressed socially/academically as a result of the Covid pandemic. While this is undoubtedly true, I have not noticed a huge drop in children’s reading standards. However, it is writing, and the writing process in particular, where I

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Oct 11 2021

EU Code Week Bootcamp

By Paul Munroe

EU Code Week is upon us once more and this year runs from the 9th to the 24th October. EU Code Week is a grassroots initiative co-ordinated by the European Commission that focuses on boosting computational thinking, coding and related digital skills of young people, as well as training for teachers. Commissioner Thierry Breton has

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