Every year I look for something in art that is fun, has little clean up and incorporates ICT. For the last two years I have used the artist Paul Klee as a starting point. The art lesson involves looking and responding to the work of Paul Klee who he said that when he was drawing, […]
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Younger learners are sometimes forgotten as I look at ideas for this blog. With this in mind I have two web resources that should appeal to pupils in Junior classes. Moshi Monster is an adopt a “monster” concept. Pupils get to choose their own monster from a selection of six cute critters. Then they are
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I was browsing the Microsoft Education website the other day and came across Songsmith – which is a very clever application that will develop a soundtrack to accompany a singer’s voice. Songsmith will allow the composer to choose from thirty different musical styles from Rock, Hip Hop, Dance, Techno, Jazz and Blues. Users can download
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Every year, Educate Together organise a conference for its principals and we get to meet and learn from each other. It’s always a brilliant conference and one of the best sessions, this year, was when three principals spoke about a certain aspect of their school. One of these principals has done something amazing. Fintan McCutcheon,
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There has been a wonderful sharing of resources in relation to the use of game-making software on the MirandaNet network this week. This is an area that I have some experience in and I would like to share my thoughts and some links on useful tools. Game-making software provides a wonderful tool for young people
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Firefly is a simple web-browser for children that has a number of interesting safety features. First of all the browser by default opens at the www.luciboo.com website. This is a portal website specially designed for younger children. The site currently has 4 categories of links, Research, Homework Help, Arts & Crafts and Games & Fun.
Many of us have large collections of digital images on our computers and maybe we don’t often view or share them. I did a webinar on sharing digital images forhttp://4cinitiative.com and for anyone wanting to know more about how to share images the full webinar is on the site and lasts 45 minutes. A brief
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We have been involved recently in a number of teacher CPD projects in which we have introduced the UNESCO ICT Competency Standards for Teachers (ICT-CST). We believe these to be an important step forward in teacher education in the area of ICT. In an effort to help educational policy-makers and curriculum developers identify the skills
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On Sunday morning last, those of you who tweet might have noticed a new hashtag appear with prominence in the twittersphere: #savewordle. Wordle, an online application (available at http://www.wordle.net) for generating ‘word clouds’, had been taken down and the founder, Jonathan Feinberg, had used the homepage of the site to appeal for “pro bono legal
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I am currently attending the Consortiuum of School Networking Conference (CoSN) in Washington DC and had the pleasure this morning to attend an excellent session on the future of “long-term embedded teacher professional development”. The session was led by Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach who described a world where teachers build their own learning networks.
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