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Silent Slam: How to get parents to book meetings with you

Posted on August 13th, by admin in Google, Video. 1 Comment

Google calendar provides a feature called Appointment Slots, which allows people to book appointments to see you when you are available. This video shows you how to set this up then shows you how to create a QR code to … Read on…



Silent Slam: Google NGram Viewer

Posted on May 25th, by admin in Google, Video. 1 Comment

Google’s nGram Viewer allows you to find out how many times a certain word (or words) appears in books over the years. The video above shows a good example of this in action but the best way is to try … Read on…



Google Drive for Education

Posted on April 30th, by admin in Google, News, Video. 2 comments

Last week Google decided to turn Google Docs into Google Drive but was is merely a name change and if not, what are the implications for education? To be honest, not much has changed, yet.  Google Drive now allows users … Read on…



Silent Slam: Google Image Search

Posted on April 24th, by admin in Google, Video. 1 Comment

Spurred on by my new found love for the word slam, I have created the first video in a series I’m calling “Silent Slam.” The plan is to make a series of very short videos that can be watched without … Read on…



Parent Teacher Meetings and Google

Posted on April 17th, by admin in Google, Video. 1 Comment

I never realised the amount of work that goes into organising Parent Teacher Meetings until I became a principal. I thought it was a ten minute job where one sent out a time to each family and that was it. … Read on…



Using Google as a Learning Management System (LMS)

Posted on October 8th, by admin in Google, News. No Comments
St. Patrick’s National School is a 76 pupil school in Co. Sligo with 3 teachers.  They have come up with a very interesting way of using Google to help with their learning.  Paul Barron, a teacher at the school, set up … Read on…



Google Plus and Education

Posted on July 12th, by admin in Google, News. 1 Comment

Whenever some new service comes along, as a teacher, I inevitably think about how it could be used for education purposes.  I think almost any web service can be adapted for educational use.  I do it on a daily basis … Read on…