Visual Poetry App
Visual Poetry from Image Chef is an app for iPhone and iPad which will transform a poem or phrase into a very pleasing visual image. Quite similar in many ways to Wordle and Tagxedo, this app allows pupils to insert text, which can be a short phrase or a complete poem, and present that text visually.
There is a range of custom shapes and themes to choose from read more…
How I Learn Fundit
How I Learn is a crowd-sourced book about learning styles and experiences. Its aim is to change the way educators, parents and students learn, and how educators teach. It is the brainchild of Helen from the Anseo a Mhúinteoir website. It all started as a result of a tweet she sent looking for a guest post on her blog under the condition that it stuck to the theme of learning styles and experiences. The hashtag #HowILearn became a hugely popular feature on her blog and got a lot of people talking! read more…
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Teaching Council Organises Féilte, a Festival of Teaching
This year, in celebration of World Teachers’ Day on October 5th, the Teaching Council will host FÉILTE, the Festival of Education in Learning and Teaching Excellence, at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin. FÉILTE aims to promote and celebrate innovation in teaching by showcasing the work of practising teachers who are involved in innovative learning projects. read more…
Tell A Story With Tellagami App
I recently was made aware of a relatively new iOS app called “Tellagami” and became intrigued by its possibilities in an educational setting. The app allows the user to create short animated videos (each called a “Gami”) to tell a story, give a message or explain something. The app has a really easy three-step process to creating your animated video: create the scene; add the dialogue; save or share the video. read more…
Microsoft Surface Tablet Offer
I don’t usually promote individual products on this blog, but this is something that I think will be interesting to schools and teachers. Microsoft has a limited pricing offer for educators for their new Surface RT Tablet. Included with the Surface RT is Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 RT providing students and educators with the productivity tools they use most – Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote – all optimized for a touch screen. read more…
Seomra Ranga Nominated for Blog Award
I just returned from holiday to receive the news that Seomra Ranga has been nominated for the Blog Awards Ireland 2013 in the Best Science/Education Blog category. Blog Awards Ireland 2013 celebrates the best in Irish blogging with 31 winners being announced at the blog awards event on 12th October 2013 in the Osprey Hotel in Naas. Blog Awards Ireland works to celebrate the very best in Irish blogging. read more…
Little Writer App
Little Writer is a tracing app for younger pupils from developers Alligator Apps. It is used to support younger learners who are at the initial stages of writing. This app helps such pupils to correctly write upper and lower case letters, numbers, words and shapes. It will assist the young pupil with correct letter and number formation as it will only allow them to complete the letter or number by tracing it in the correct order. It is visually appealing to pupils read more…
Over App
The Over App is similar to Phonto, another app I wrote about previously. This app is used for overlaying text onto a photograph or image. The text can be changed in many different ways by changing the font, alignment, colour, opacity and size. The app has recently been upgraded and now includes more fonts and artwork can now also be added to an image. The app is really easy to use and the learning curve is very small. read more…
Tell a Story Using Talking QR Codes
I’ve written a previous blog post about Talking QR Codes and how they could be used in the classroom. Put basically, you type in a text message of no more than 100 characters in length on the QR Voice website, which then creates a QR Code. You then save the QR Code as an image to put on a blog/website or print out the code and display it on a noticeboard. When the code is scanned using a QR Code Reader App (lots of free ones are available in the App Store and in the Android App Store) the message is read back using an electronic voice. read more…