-       Use digital images to for both individual & group benefits

-       Use digital images to record changes in the environment throughout the seasons

-       Personalise pupils learning by recording them narrating or reading

-       Tools: microphone, tablet, smart phone

-       Audio Recording Tools: Audacity, Vocaroo, Opinion2

Ideas for using recording that I might use in classroom

-       Comhrá in Gaeilge

-       Class story

-       Record story instead of writing one

Very interesting to see more about Vocaroo on www.vocaroo.com

Check the resources document re safety when using youtube & how to watch videos offline. Use Edpuzzle to add questions to an existing video

 

How I might use video to support learning & assessment

-       School trips

-       Drama

-       Explanatory videos

-       Assessing PE

Taking part in www.físfilmproject.ie seems like a great idea. Lots of support from Fís re downloading sound clips etc. Great way for children to work collaboratively.  Great integration opportunity as you can link videos with storyboards & integrate writing, art, science etc.

 

Using Videos to support SEN Students

-       Engage gifted students

-       Make reading more accessible when supported by video

-       Great communication tool

Using Kiddle & KidRex in the classroom seems like a great idea for researching projects.

-       Skim

-       Scan

-       Determine Importance

-       Determine Validity

-       Summarise

-       You can search resources which are mapped to a particular part of the curriculum

-       It's very easy to search for good resources many of which have local origins

-       Link lots of websites together to make a learning path

 

Using WorldBook:

-       Select the kids section

-       Daily discussion topics here too

-       Great easy science experiments

-       Option to compare places e.g. compare Ireland with Spain

-       Compare animals too

-       Poetry writing & dictionary tool also available

-> Create an account as a handy way to save quick links to lots of websites that you use in one area
-> Would be really good to create one of these for sharing across the school

 

Great Online Resources & I will use the maths ones for Maths Week 2018

https://nrich.maths.org/8842
Lots of other great links in the Module 2 resources document saved on school Dropbox 

 

https://www.senteacher.org/print/literacy/ 

 

Numeracy Recommends:

https://www.senteacher.org/print/mathematics/ 

 

SEN Recommends:

 

STEM Recommends

-       Use to create a digital story

-       Document a science experiment

-       Recount a school trip

-       Share ideas with parents via the app

-       SEN: Use to create a visual timetable, pupils record answers instead of writing

-       Weebly - Look into this offline

-       Wordpress – Use for school website

 

Digital Wall Options

-       Lino

-       Wakelet

-       Padlet

-       Animoto

-       WeVideo

-       iMovie

-       Toontastic

-       Adobe Spark

Preparing for Digital Storytelling 

-       Begin with the story circle

-       I can use different voices, I can use adjectives, I can use a beg, middle & end

-       Using Toontastic

-       Use tablets a few at a station first & then build up to a whole class activity

-       Use classroom manager app to lock screens or send children more work

SEN & Digital Storytelling:

-       Social Stories

-       Digital Journal

-       Present Work

-       Instructions on how to play

MySelfie – Respectful use of social media – excellent animation explaining how pictures online can get out of hand

www.saferinternetday.ie 

Webwise Explainers – Whatsapp, Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, Instagram

-       Use information to make adjustments to improve the learning. Teachers adapt based on the assessment

 

Mentimeter – an audience response system

Socrative Tutorial – Assessment tool, create your own

Kahoot - Note that a number of devices are necessary

Sign up for free

-       Make a quiz, discussion or a survey

-       E.g. Capital Cities

-       Type in your multiple choice answers & choose which one is correct

Children can create a Kahoot quiz for the rest of the class having researched a project

 

Assessing PE

-       App ‘Workout’ – fundamental movement

-       Video each other in pairs balancing & then children coloured in how they did on a self-assessment sheet

 

Install some useful apps on new tablets. 

 

Look into the possibility of any free laptops that could be used with pre-loaded content due to the lack of networked internet access

 

School Plan Key Messages

-       No 2 plans will be the same

-       Dig tech. should support teaching & learning

-       PDST provide support in this regard (Technology/Planning section on PDST website)

 

Action Plans

-       Use more technology for assessment

-       Set up school Symbaloo

-       Safer Internet Day 2019

-       Share Webwise information with parents

-       Go to Advanced Settings & select ‘free to use & share’ option to find copyright free images

 

Alternatives to Google for Educational Purposes

-       Creative Commons www.search.creativecommons.org

-       Pixabay         www.pixabay.com 

-       Photos for Class www.photosforclass.com (Age Appropriate Images)

-       Use for differentiation

-       Pupils could bring own devices

-       Establish very clear use of rules

-       Good planning is ESSENTIAL