Some more videos from TY 2012 / 2013

Here's some more videos that TY 2012 / 2013 made in May. Enjoy :)

Kate recorded Under the Same Sun ( and performed it at TY Night too!)



Orlaith, Ciara, and Ruth recorded a TY French oral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bk6Zk3a55ms 

Abbie and Muireann did an MTV cribs style video of St Wolstan’s http://youtu.be/cyn1Q587On4



Chanice shows us what a day out at Xtreme is like http://youtu.be/TW603BRAbWM 

Aisling did some weird dance moves in the garden! http://youtu.be/EA47VQN2fsM




Aideen went to the beach to make her video http://youtu.be/_AG579irnYs




Eilise made a How To video on playing the ukulele http://youtu.be/1av-wLNDsic

Shannon and Emma did their video on their TY year http://youtu.be/SNsnezRL8lo

Rachel made a video about her Junk Kouture experience http://youtu.be/7KZqdnBcI78



Ciara M is mad into boy bands! http://youtu.be/44EDx9vzjxM

Alanna plays in the orchestra and rehearses at lunchtimes. http://alannad101.blogspot.ie/2013/05/this-my-it-video-completed-it-is-all.html

Fiona recorded her Gaisce hike http://youtu.be/hdNn7vSUraM

Emma and Cliodhna shows us what’s involved in getting ready for Gaisce http://emmastytimes.blogspot.ie/2013/05/it-video-project-d.html

Aisling’s passion is horses http://aislingnty.blogspot.ie/

Making Movies

Transition Year have been set their end of year assignment for I.T. class. They have to record, produce, and publish a video of between 1 - 3 minutes long. The use of software and topic can be their own choice.

There was some excitement when the assignment was given, and some great ideas were discussed. There was talk of doing Forrest Gump in one minute, a Wolstan's Crib in an MTV Cribs style, a profile of our winning Camogie Team, a video on the upcoming Gaisce hike, and some will even make short videos for our Music Rooms collaborative project with St Scholastica's College in Sydney, Australia.

To help I have created a YouTube Playlist for using Windows Live Movie Maker which is the programme on the computers at school. If students wish to use any other programme they are free to do so.

Here is the first video in the Playlist.






I also found another site with lots of very useful Windows Live tutorials called Mahalo.com. 

Good luck TY, I am looking forward to your movies.
Mrs L :)

TY's present...

This week TY's have been uploading their class presentations to Slideshare (www.slideshare.net) so they can share them on their blogs.

See some of the presntations in these blogs:

Corrie's favourite scene from Dirty Dancing

Eve's Edouard Manet - peintre francais

Aoibhinn and Lisa's Oscar Claude Monet - another peintre francais!

Why not read some more of their posts while you visit their blogs?

Enjoy
Mrs L :)

Run Forest Run! Wait scratch that - try cycling!

Grace took part in Bike Week. Here's what she says.....

"Last week was Bike Week in Ireland, to try to promote cycling as a fun, healthy low cost , environmentally friendly way to get around. So when Mr Kiely came around asking if we wanted to put our names into a draw to win a bike, I didn't really think much, because I never (really never) win stuff like that! At the end of the day when 3 other names and my own was called out I was so surprised! Just shows - it doesn't hurt to try! We get to keep the bikes for 6 months, and use them as much as we like! We were presented them last Thursday and yesterday we took them for a spin to Castletown House with the Greenschools Committee.

I want to thank Mr Kiely and the Greenschools Committee for all their hard work, and congratulations to them as they were recently awarded with the school's 4th green flag.

Seeing as we have come up with a topic for our Geography project, where we will be picking a subject and linking it to different places around the world, I thought I'd pick cycling because it's such a worldwide sport and I wanted to find out more!

It seems really interesting so far - for example do you know that Lance Armstrong had cancer before winning the internationally famous 'Tour de France' for 7 consecutive years? I can't wait to get started!"

Read more of Grace's blog here

Poems for St Brigid

This month TY have been collaborating on celebrating St Brigid. We hope to collaborate further with the Brigidine College, St Ives, Sydney, Australia and learn about the influence of St Brigid outside Ireland. Watch this space......or rather this space http://swtystbridget.blogspot.com/ because we set up a blog to gather all our information together.
We hope the students from St Ives will add pages to the blog as they research the Brigidine Order in Australia.

Meg, Aoibheann and Kate wrote and recorded these poems. Click here for more...

Going global with our greetings

We will be taking part in a Christmas greetings exchange project with some other schools around the world. The project is one of the Connected Classrooms projects  #ccGlobal projects. (http://ccglobal.ning.com/)

Geography projects

There are only 4 weeks left until mid term and I am hoping that my TY Geography class will have finished the research for their Around the World Virtual Trip by then.
After mid term they should be ready to make their presentations in class and to submit their Fact File for assessment.
Here is an example of what last year's class presented. Siobhanb was going to travel to Poland.

Siobhan had lots of photos in her presentation and talked us through each slide.

http://siobhanb.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-geography-presentation-poland.html

50% of TY Christmas Assessment will go towards their Factfile and 50% towards their classroom presentation.
In the Factfile I will be looking for facts obviously, a geography focus on each country (places to see etc) and a well presented project. It does not have to be printed, a scrapbook will do just as well.

For the classroom presentation I will be looking for depth of knowledge about yopur chosen country - so I will be asking questions! I will also allocate marks for a well designed PowerPoint presentation and for delivery  - so be confident!

Good luck
Mrs L :)