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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What better way to start a new year than with some new conferences. January began with MiTE 2018 in Galway where I presented on Virtual Fieldtrips and Coding. Both have become big interests of mine and I was honoured to have been asked to present at them. The great thing about conferences like MiTE is…
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For this, you will need the Sphero Edu app as well as a Sphero or SPRK+ This activity will demonstrate how you can use loops, functions, colours and sound to code a weather forecast. Each weather type is a separate function an example of which can be seen below. The full activity can be downloaded…
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The Learning Games project was an ERASMUS funded project which examined the use of gamification in education. The focus was to develop an App that would allow for gamification in all classrooms from secondary to university level. The project had partners from Spain, Germany, Ireland, Hungary and Turkey. I was lucky to be part of this…
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