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Back to School
by Siobhan Long
Welcome to our Back to Education edition of our ezine. In this issue, we take a look at some free tools that can help students to reflect on their work, as well as some useful apps. We also highlight an exciting development called Makeshop, from Trinity College's Science Gallery.
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There's an App for that!
by Juliann Bergin
As part of our Back to School special edition, we’ve compiled a list of the most popular and useful apps for second level education, focusing more on functionality rather than individual subjects. This list is not exhaustive by any means, but includes some paid and free apps that may help in the everyday life of a student. . If you have come across an app that you think we should know about, please let us know using the polling feature on the left of the screen!
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FREE Online Tools for the Classroom
by Sue Meehan, AT Intern
At the eLearning Summer School at DIT this year, Bernie Goldblach introduced us to Audioboo. Audioboo is a quick and easy way to record a short audio journal. As a lecturer, Mr. Goldblach asks students to use this to evaluate their projects and their work. His advice was that students provide much more information when you ask them to tell you what they have done rather than reflect on what they have produced. However, this tool can be used in many ways and at all levels of education.
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Assistive Technology Grant for Schools
by Sean Loughran
There is now a wide range of technological or software support available which has the potential to assist children in their academic performance, learning, and completion of homework. The Department of Education and Skills, Assistive Technology scheme is for those pupils whose degree of physical and/or communicative disability is such that without technological support it will not be possible for them to access the school curriculum. It is based on an individual pupil's needs.
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Makeshop
by Karl O'Keeffe
MAKESHOP is a new collaborative workshop space where you can learn everything from DIY robotics to 3D printing. Created by Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, this pop-up experiment in making is for everyone from novices to advanced makers, young to old. The aim of MAKESHOP is to provide people with the tools, materials and guidance they need to get making, in a place where creativity is encouraged and everyone is welcome.
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Blog: www.atandme.com
by Sean Loughran
The National AT training service have recently started a blog to highlight various technologies and resources that are available. Typically posts to the blog include information that can assist an individual in performing tasks such as reading/writing, independent living, self-care, mobility or even leisure activities. Assistive technologies are constantly changing with new exciting technologies appearing. These new tools now provide a greater choice of solutions to meet an individual’s needs. Discussion on the blog is open to anyone with an interest, so please read, learn, and contribute
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Portable Apps for Education
by Sean Loughran
Portable applications are programs that are designed to run on a computer in a way that doesn’t modify the computer's configuration information. These types of applications can be stored on any storage device storage such as USB drives. They offer a portable solution as programs can be run from any computer without installation. One common collection of portable apps for education is called EduApps and consists of eight useful software collections that are free for you to download and use. EduApps covers a range of user requirements to support teaching and learning. http://eduapps.org/ Another good source of portable apps is http://portableapps.com/apps
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