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#An Fómhar Twitter Project

During the week we were doing a project on Twitter about signs of Autumn. There was a lot of schools from all over the world involved. Schools from Canada, America and Ireland were tweeting as well. We had to find signs of Autumn and take pictures of them. We had to tweet as much as possible. Eimear and Maedhbh took pictures of signs of
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The Website Launch

We launched our new website on Wednesday the 19th of September. Parents and children sat in the hall waiting while Mr. Quinn was getting ready to show us the new website. We counted down from ten to one to unveil the website. He showed us how to access the website and look around. The new website is very different from the old one and
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6th Class Blog

Since last week, 6th class have started a new blog for the teacher and all the class pupils. Our teacher Mr. Quinn had unveiled it to us on Monday 17th of September. He gave us our own blogs for us to post in school or after school at home. Mr Quinn has started to give us homework to do on the blog at home. All
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Mission V Project

MissionV is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes the development of 21st century skills through innovative online technologies. It is enhancing the Irish classroom by providing the digital tools for teachers and students to design and create their own, curriculum-based, interactive content – for powerful new learning experiences. During the school year 2011-12 they ran a pilot project in 20 primary schools, supported by the
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School Website Committee

To coincide with the new school website, we decided to establish a pupils’ website committee  to help with the future running of the site. When we announced at assembly the date for the launch of the new school website, we also explained to the pupils about the establishment of the committee. We asked pupils from 5th and 6th classes to make a written submission
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1st Class Pupils Feature in Technology Use Video

Some time ago Catherine Cronin, academic coordinator of online IT programmes and lecturer in IT at the National University of Ireland, Galway, asked us to take part in a video showcasing technology being used in Irish classrooms. Along with a number of other Irish educators, we submitted short videos of examples of how pupils are using technologies to discover new ways of learning in
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Our Day at Google!

  We went to the Google offices in Dublin for a prize-giving ceremony for the Doodle4Google competition! When we arrived we were given name tags and refreshments, I got a t-shirt with my doodle printed on it! Google had lots of laptops ready for us to use, our doodles were playing on flat screen televisions.  The finalists then went to workshops and the adults
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Safer Internet Day

Today is Safer Internet Day. It is a day for showing you how to use the internet properly and safely. We visited a website called Webwise and looked at a video about surfing the internet. We learned some Golden Rules about surfing the internet. These are some of those rules: Don’t always say “Yes” when a pop-up appears If you come across something bad
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Doodle Final!

I have reached the final of the doodle 4 google competition! There are 15 finalists in each category. The winning student will have their doodle on the Google Ireland homepage for 24 hours.  They will also receive a €10,000 technology grant for their school and a laptop for the pupil and teacher. The winner of each category wins a laptop for themselves and their
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We Doodled for Google!

Our class entered the Doodle for Google competition!  We had to create our own doodle with the theme I wish…! Last week our teacher received three envelopes in the post from Google!  We were so excited!  Inside were letters and certificates for three children in our class. Amber, Rosha and Cliodhna have reached the semi-final of the competition!  After the 23rd  of January their
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