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1. Home Economics Helper Website

Description:The development of the website to support the teaching of Home Economics allowing the students to work independently. Teachers will direct their students to the website. The website will encourage collaboration both among students and teachers in the development of a shared resource. A blog is incorporated in the website this encourages students to engage in a community of practice adding comments and resources that they find helpful.

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2. Introduction to Jazz - Junior Cycle Music

Description:This project is aimed at second and third year students who choose Jazz as their General Study topic in the Junior Certificate Music exam. Human aspects of this art form may be lost when the topic is taught from textbooks. By working through this series of related listening, composing and research tasks, the student discovers the origins of Jazz and becomes familiar with the main features, styles, instruments and people associated with the genre. ICT offers a visual dimension e.g. sounds are easily followed on the notated scores with the help of a cursor.

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3. iTouch in the Classroom - Primary Cross Curricular

Description:This project explores the use of Apple’s iTouch as a teaching aid in a classroom setting. Each child will have access to an iTouch and it will be used to enhance learning across all subjects of the curriculum using both apps and the access to the internet. The results of this project will be displayed in a blog.

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4. Biometrics & DNA Profiling - Senior Cycle Biology

Description:This interactive module investigates the various techniques in the field of Biometrics. The project is designed to promote awareness in students of the increasing use of biometrics in society (Fingerprint analysis, iris scanning, face recognition etc.) using a Webquest format. There are four main research areas from which to choose. Students carry out their research using the links and animations provided and present their findings to the class in the form of a PowerPoint file. Students can also carry experiments to compile and identify fingerprints in the laboratory. Along the way, students will cover aspects of the Senior Cycle Biology Syllabus including the use of microscopes, the structure of the human eye, DNA profiling etc.

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5. The Dance Grid - Physical Education Primary

Description:This creative dance resource should not be seen as a simple copy and learn activity but contains strategies and suggestions as to how the learned material may be manipulated, adapted, recombined and developed in ways that involve real creativity on the part of the pupils. Suggestions as to how the material might be combined with pupil generated material are provided. There is potential for a unit of work using the material in different combinations ie. If each of the nine phrases is named A to I, then mathematically the combination possibilites are great ABC, ABD, ABE etc. 504 in total. Frequently repeated use of such a device should be avoided as the constant learning and combining of such a limited amount of material would inevitably lead to boredom.

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