CESIpresentation

Computer Education Society of Ireland

2011 Conference

Saturday 5th February

Portlaoise College

Presentation by Julian Girdham and Humphrey Jones,

St Columba’s College, Whitechurch, Dublin 16.

The Frog Blog at www.frogblog.ie

Our school website is www.stcolumbas.ie

Our Prezi presentation is available on both our blogs today or can be accessed on the Prezi website here (free registration required):

Blogging

We both use Blogger- www.blogger.com.

Twitter (www.twitter.com) : our accounts are @sccenglish and @thefrogblog, ‘The Value of Twitter’ post is about the SCC English use of the service & a post on Humphrey’s personal blog (More Stress, Less Success) ‘Teachers! Tweet, blog, connect’
Netvibes: www.netvibes.com. SCC English and The Frog Blog.
Lulu for self-publishing books: www.lulu.com : this post, ‘Publishing Pupils’ Work’, describes the process for the English books.
Facebook: The Frog Blog.
E-newsletters via TinyLetter: http://tinyletter.com/SCC-English
Podcasting: we both use Podbean (www.podbean.com) - check out www.sccenglish.podbean.com and http://frogblog.podbean.com.
Mini-podcasting: there are also five-minute podcasts on the English site which use Audioboo - http://audioboo.fm/sccenglish
Issuu: publish magazines online, such as the SCC Library mag, ‘The Submarine’.
Create your own Prezi - www.prezi.com
A handy list of Web 2.0 tools.
Wordle (word-cloud app) : all of Shakespeare works on Wordle.

Some references from the talk, with links :

Sunday Business Post - Technology in the Classroom: http://www.sbpost.ie/technology/backtoschool-gadget-lowdown-51279.html
‘100 Top Classroom Blogs’, including SCC English and The Frog Blog.
Times Educational Supplement Shakespeare resources (e.g. King Lear podcast)
Eircom Spiders 2010 Winners: http://www.eircomspiders.ie/winners_2010.php
Edublog Awards 2010, 2009, 2008.
Irish Times BANG Science Supplement: www.facebook.com/IrishTimesBANG
Irish Independent, October 2009: ‘How to Teach English to the Facebook Generation’.