Good Practice Videos
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EU Folio – Using ICT tools for English Athy College
English Teacher the use of ICT in English. Animoto is a video creator, used to create videos for poems. Padlet is used to collect information from the class. Students use Fakebook for character development. They discuss the benefits of e-portfolios for all students.
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EU Folio – A school’s experience (Athy Community College)
Interview with Teachers about EU Folio and their schools experience. They discuss the importance of being familiar with the system before introducing it to a class. EPortfolios are used in the school as a means of continuous assessment to document the students progress.
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EU Folio – Using online tools for English Athlone Community College
Interview with Teacher about the use of ICT in English. She how ICT allows for differentiation and caters for all types of learners. She highlights the importance of using ICT as a tool and not as the main focus of a lesson. She uses Animoto, Voki, Prezi and Fakebook.
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Using ICT to support active learning in Geography
Interview with Teacher about the use of mobile phones and tablets in her Geography lessons. She uses a wide range of applications to support teaching and learning. She provides a wide range of differentiated resources for her students to access outside of class. The use of ICT caters to all types of learners.
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ICT in the MFL Classroom – Using Tablet PCs
A Teacher talks about the use of tablets in her Spanish lessons. The students create videos of Spanish phrases using an iPad. The students then watch the video as a whole class as a means of peer assessment. The teacher can then re-watch the video and provide individualised feedback.
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Using Scoilnet Services for History
Interview with Teacher about the use of Scoilnet in her History classroom. She discusses how the tools available allow the students to conduct their own research. The class are given a project on a topic, they conduct their own research and present it to the class through Google Docs and Padlet.
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ICT in the MFL Classroom – Creating content using digital recorders
Interview with Teacher about the use of ICT in his German classroom to enhance teaching and learning. The class uses USB microphones to record themselves having conversations and playing them back as peer assessment. They then take the audio and incorporate it into a story on computers and present it to the class.
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ICT in the MFL Classroom – Differentiated learning using online resources
A Spanish teacher uses technology to enhance the learning in her classroom. The class record themselves speaking and assess their recording with the teacher. They also engage with an online blog with a wide range of online websites. They allow the students to asses themselves and understand what they have to revise.
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ICT i rang Ceimic
Interview with Teacher about the use of ICT in her Chemistry class. They record videos when conducting experiments and share them with the class. The students can then use the videos as revision. She uses Explain Everything to revise topics, provide feedback and provide up to date notes for her students.
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ICT in the MFL Classroom – Digital Self Introductions
Interview with Students and Teacher about the use of ICT in Language lessons. They use the Glogster tool to create a digital poster about themselves. They can use remote microphones to include audio clips to the page. This promotes oral and aural practice. It benefits the different learners in the classroom.
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