Young and Irish Voices
Anna and Amy did an interview with Susan Nic Reamoinn . Susan spoke about how she is a teacher at Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School. She is here at the Digital MegaMeet to talk about the technology she uses in her classroom at school. She uses Bee Bots, Blue Bots, Little Bits and Dash and Dot
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Roisin and Anna interviewed Adrienne Webb. Adrienne is a Maths teacher in Dublin. She explained about CESI, the Computers in Education Society of Ireland, and its growing success. Adrienne also talked about Teach Meet and how enjoyable and exciting it is.
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Roisin and Anna interviewed Mary Jo Bell at the Excited conference today. Mary Jo is a primary school teacher of a senior infants class in St. Anne’s NS in Shankill. She spoke about the presentation she made with Ciara Brennan. Mary Jo proceeded to tell us about the websites she and her class use. Their favourite website is http://www.voki.com/.
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Roisin and Amy interviewed Tony Riley. Tony is an art teacher who is originally from New Zealand but is now working in Ireland. Tony spoke about his involvement in STEAM. He explained that STEAM derived from STEM but because of his great interest in art he developed a #steamroom in Lacken National School. The School is here today showcasing as a Digital School of Distinction.
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Chris and Dave interviewed Digital School Champion Borrisokane C.C . In this interview that boys informed us of their digital software which helped fellow students study for their Junior Certificate state exams. Their software helps students to share study notes for exams.
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Chris and Dave interviewed Ben and Oisin with MediBands. They created a silicone band that takes you to a website with the wearers medical history, allergies etc. when a photo is taken of it. it shws how something as small as a band could potentially save lives.
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Chris interviewed the co-Founder of the Rapid Foundation, Colin Keogh. Rapid Foundation go to developing countries and introduce people there to technology. The believe that everyone should have access t technology. At the Excited Digital Learning Festival today they were demo’ing a 3D printer.
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Anna and Chris interviewed Brian Mulligan from IT Sligo, who expressed his opinion about the future of colleges. He believes that Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) will replace real life courses. Find out more in our interview.
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Amy and Emma interviewed Julia Skinner. She set up the 100 Word Challenge. She is in Ireland setting up the #100WCEmeraldTour. She is an ex head teacher. She talked about her favourite story and how the 100 word challenge has grown. She strongly believes that it is important that children know the tools of writing. She also stressed that peer comments are more powerful than the teacher telling children what to do.
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Here Danny and Finn interviewed Hassan Dabbagh on the deployment of Google services in the classroom. In his workshop Hassan went through the steps of setting up the various services and showed a real life implementation of the services.
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