My name is Sarah Nally and I teach in St Brigid's School in Westmeath. St B's is a special needs school. I currently teach teens aged 13-17yrs. We are implementing the new Junior Cycle Level 2 Learning programme, which is going really well.
I heard about this course from JCT. I am an Associate with them for the Level 2 Learning Programme and am delighted I was invited to do this. :-)
I'm slightly late getting involved as i had problems with watching webinars. Catching up now. As a result this initial blog is just an intro to me, I haven't been able to do the ICT tasks in school but will be making it a priority over the next week. I hope i'm not too late.
Internet is sometimes hit and miss in the school, and we only have 1 class laptop which is difficult when I have a class of 10. Having said that I have used and try to use technology as much as possible. Students have enjoyed Movenote and Powtoon in particular. We have created short Prezi's in the past. I think been able to use basic packages such as Word and Powerpoint are invaluable and for most of my SEN learners quite a lot to grasp.
I have set up an account for SymbalooEDU and i'm really looking forward to using this and sharing this with my colleagues. I have started doing up a webmix for the Level 2 which is going to be invaluable. Thank you :-)
Having trouble with Office Mix - is it only for Windows? Yes, just googled this and have found a solution so will get to work on that.
Thanks for the opportunity, Sarah
Hope to get on the webinar now i have chrome.
