14. Practical Session - Exploring Scoilnet

15. Using the Resource Finder on Scoilnet © NCTE 2011

16. Scoilnet Storytime – Publishing Stories © NCTE 2011 Normally takes 2 working days before story is approved. Minor edits are made to stories Contact us will remove a story. http://www.scoilnet.ie/StudentsPrimary.aspx

17. www.imagebank.ie

18. The image resizer allows you to resize images. This can be useful for adding a picture as an attachment in an email or uploading an image to a website. Image Resizer Powertoy Clone For Windows 7/Vista Image Resizer

19. Fís Bookclub www.fisbookclub.com © NCTE 2011

20. www.iamanartist.ie Excellent Irish Art website with videos, responding to art images and lesson plans.www.iamanartist.ie www.scispy.ie Excellent science website based on the Irish curriculum. Great lesson plans and include videos on topics.www.scispy.ie Two Other Scoilnet Sites

22. Encyclopaedia Britannica

23. Scoilnet now offers users on the School Broadband Network access to Encyclopaedia Britannica. Webinar available on how to use Encyclopaedia Britannica on main page of Scoilnet Teachers can now access these resources from home, once they have registered with Scoilnet. See https://admin.scoilnet.ie/registration to register

25. www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/wordsearches/wordsearch-maker.aspx Free to use Create IWB versions Differentiation Supports modern foreign languages Hundred’s of ready made resources Can be tailored for your curriculum needs As well as ordinary wordsearches you can make wordsearchers with a cloze passage or definitions. Children must find the missing words from the passage in the wordsearch. Can be saved as a “pdf” for use again. You can also make an interactive wordsearch for the IWB Manual page 130 Wordsearch Maker (online)

26. Example: Wordsearch with cloze Wordsearch (online) with Cloze Maker

27. Starfall

28. This site provides educational ICT activites linked to the English National Curriculum.. These games are generally targeted at infant school teachers and parents of infant age children. www.ictgames.com/index.htm

29. 194 free to use educational interactive resources for Primary Schools. 30 free to use fun games for kids aged 4 - 11. 120 plus links to free interactive, image and software resources. 16 'Flipcharts' to download and use on your Promethean IWB. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

30. www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm

31. www.eclipsecrossword.com/download.html Fun way of reinforcing spelling and the meaning of words/comprehension Free to use Differentiation – you control the level of difficulty depending on clue. Can be tailored for your curriculum needs When you log onto website you are asked do you want to download it. You can print your crossword, save it, or save as a web page (This will allow you to publish the crossword as an Interactive web page) Eclipse Crossword Maker

32. School Blog: http://culleensballina.scoilnet.ie/blog/tag/wordle/http://culleensballina.scoilnet.ie/blog/tag/wordle/ Teachnet Project: http://teachnet.eu/ehallinan/childrens-work/http://teachnet.eu/ehallinan/childrens-work/ Wordles/Tagxedo

33. Arcade Game Generator http://teachnet.eu/ehallinan/2010/04/02/interactive-games/ Task: Create an activity and save it to use on the IWB http://teachnet.eu/ehallinan/2010/04/02/interactive-games/ www.classtools.net www.classtools.ie

36. See NCTE PDF for further information.

46. Homework Tomorrow....... We will be working with digital images to create a digital slideshow and collage with Picasa So have some images in mind e.g. Images to scan Images on your digital camera or a card reader Images from a CD Memory Stick/USB device Images from the internet