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Trip Planning with Google Maps.

As someone who likes to travel a lot and likes to plan traveling I spend a lot of time exploring Google Maps. Figuring out directions, grouping activities and more. When planning an upcoming trip to Prague I wondered if there was a way I could just place all my activities on my own personalized Google…
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New Book – Reimagining Creativity in Adult Education

When I attended the 2018 Apple ADE Conference in Austin there was a lot of talk about creativity and it got me thinking that sometimes creativity is pushed aside when the focus is on exam results and getting points to attend university. With this in mind, I collected some creative lesson plans and collated them…
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Using Managed Apple IDs in the classroom

Managed Apple IDs were announced over a year ago and I never really had a need or want for them. I had been using my own Apple ID for close to 10 years so you can just imagine the history of purchases and downloads associated with it. However, this quickly changed at the Apple Education…
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Introducing Schoolwork

Schoolwork a new Apple app for teachers was launched this week and is everything we have been waiting for. It is a way of handing out assessments and receiving and marking students work. This release came too late for my current classes but I look forward to using it in September. To enable School work…
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Fieldtrips with Clips.

Clips is a free video-creation Apple app for iOS that devices that was launched early in 2017. Since it’s launch I have been using it both personally and in the classroom. Going back a couple of years the video creation section of my digital media module used to take weeks or learning and content gathering.…
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The impact of #magicmovechallenge on my classroom

The #magicmovechallenge was born on Twitter earlier this year and created by @mcoutts81 and @theipodteacher. The #magicmovechallenge is based around the magic move feature in Keynote and users usually use it combined with shapes to create an animation. I initially I stayed away from the challenge. This was a combination of my being to busy…
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Assemblr in Education

I first heard about Assemblr at BETT 2018. Having used both AR and Octagon apps in the past I was keen to give it a try. Assemblr is a free app that allows students to build virtual worlds in a Minecraft like setting and then view them in a real-life setting using AR or VR. Students…
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Lifelong Learning Cork

For the past couple of years I have been hosting Apple related workshops during the Lifelong Learning Festival in Cork. Last year I held a coding workshop and this year we held a coding one and a garageband one. This year we were lucky, the Lord Mayor popped in and even tried his hand a…
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80 days around the world

80 days around the world, we’ll find a pot of gold just sitting where the rainbow’s ending. Time – we’ll fight against the time, and we’ll fly on the white wings of the wind. 80 days around the world, no we won’t say a word before the ship is really back. Round, round, all around…
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