Technology

Leanring Online: Starting January 2021: 

Loom (2nd class) and Zoom (SET). Students used ICT and technology for recording their work and completing some work also. 
It was also used for submitting work in Google Classroom by pupils in 2nd class. 

For presenting work/ projects/ information:

Having taken part in Cavan Monaghan Science Festival we were inspired to further investigate what we had seen on the Webinars- one from Dublin Zoo on Invertebrates and another from Belfast Zoo on Zoology. The boys were absolutely fascinated by the various species that were shown and discussed. It really caught their attention and they were full of questions about these amazing creatures. This led to the boys choosing an animal or insect they wished to explore further from tarantula, frogs,  stick insects, .............I'll add to this Mary). They used tablets and laptops to research the topic and atlases to find the place these animals were from. This in turn led to discussions on tropical rainforests, deforestation,  loss of habitat, wild fires and many more related topics.  It also gave rise to a very lively debate on whether it is justifiable to have animals in captivity. Congratulations to Cavan Monaghan Science Festival organisers who have organised such excellent and relevant webinars and streamed them into our classrooms at a time when we are unable to attend workshops or have guest speakers in our schools.

Using technology to present learning and activities: 

When online learning was taking place in january, boys were asked to send in their work for their 'class gallery'. Some boys got very creative and developed the technology skills t create a video with the InShot video editing app. 
​See their productions below: 

Lego Animation video creation:  

A boy in 4th class created a stop motion video using both stop motion studio and in Shot app (both video creating and editing apps) 
See below: 

Making crystals video: 2 brothers in 2nd class and 6th class
Using the ''Inshot'' technology. 

Developing ICT skills 

2nd class are continuing to develop their ICT skills, using the school laptops. 
Our learning objectives for our lessons were:
- to open and start the laptop
- to locate and use the 'start' button 
- to open a Microsoft Word document 
- To save their Word Doc. to the desktop, creating a new 'file name' 
- Practice their typing skills (capital letters, using backspace, space bar, shift + ___) 
- To edit the font size in Mocrosoft Word 
- to use and understand a bank of words for using the laptops e.g. desktop, pointer, mouse, left click, right click, shift, file, folder, start menu, home screen etc.