Guest Post: Capturing Creativity
As a teacher, I am passionate about integrating ICT in educational settings. In particular, I am interested in how digital tools can really bring teaching and learning to life in creative, dynamic ways. Over the last few years, I’ve experimented with lots of ICT tools, some more challenging than others, leaving me keen to learn more! So I was delighted to recently join 17 European teachers at the Future Classroom Lab (FCL) in Brussels for a 2-day course on the Creative Use of Multi-Media and Devices in the Classroom. read more…
Mystery Math Town App
Mystery Math Town is a newly-released maths app for iPad from Art Gig Apps, the same company that released Shake a Phrase. Filled with great graphics and moody background music, this app will take pupils on an adventure through the houses of a Gothic-looking town where they will practise their maths skills on an almost incidental level. read more…
Easter 1916 Rising
This video show great original footage of the devastating aftermath of the Easter 1916 Rising. It shows the destruction caused to the city’s buildings after only five days of fighting….
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Digital Art Week
Next week sees the arrival of our 3rd annual Digital Art Week. This gives primary school children around Ireland the opportunity to share their digital art with other children around the country and complete some fun visual arts activities. As it’s digital, over the course of the week, schools will use digital tools such as Twitter in order to learn about art and to create their own pieces of work. read more…
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
This Powerpoint presentation explains the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, where they came from and what each one of them individually means. This is part of the preparation for Confirmation.
The presentation may be viewed in the embedded Slideshare below or the file may also be downloaded below.
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Fruits of the Holy Spirit
This Powerpoint presentation explains the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit, where they came from and what each one of them individually means. This is part of the preparation for Confirmation.
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The Rite of Confirmation
This Powerpoint presentation explains the Rite of Confirmation, the part of the mass where the Confirmation Ceremony itself takes place. It explains how the Rite of Confirmation itself is made up of four parts. This is part of the preparation for Confirmation.
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Easter 1916 Rising
This video explains a little about the personalities involved in the 1916 Rising, as well as the results of the Rising. It contains some actual video footage from the time….
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Shake A Phrase App
Shake a Phrase is a language app for the development of reading, vocabulary, grammar and writing. The app presents the content under five different themes – Animals, Fairytale, Monsters, Sports and Shake Starter. Using these themes, there are three sections to the app – Shake It, Story Starter and Quiz Me. read more…
Math Race App
Math Race is a good app for the consolidation of maths tables. The Lite version of the app covers all four mathematical operations. In the game, the pupil is presented with a sum and they are given four possible answers to the sum. They have to select the correct answer. There are three difficulty levels for differentiation: easy, medium and hard. read more…