Practical Session - Exploring Scoilnet

Using the Resource Finder on Scoilnet © NCTE 2011

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.

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

Fís Bookclub © NCTE 2011

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

Encyclopaedia Britannica

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 to register

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)

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

Starfall

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.

194 free to use educational interactive resources for Primary Schools. 30 free to use fun games for kids aged plus links to free interactive, image and software resources. 16 'Flipcharts' to download and use on your Promethean IWB.

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

School Blog: Teachnet Project: Wordles/Tagxedo

Arcade Game Generator Task: Create an activity and save it to use on the IWB

See NCTE PDF for further information.

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