Congratulations to 5th and 6th class Winners at MindRising 16 today!
This Saturday 5th and 6th class represented Clontuskert at the MindRising Awards Ceremony in Dublin and also visited the CoderDojo Coolest Projects & Launch’d Dublin in the RDS.
MindRising is a competition celebrating 200 years of the island of Ireland. MindRising champions the use of digital technology in schools and groups and is about telling stories about our past and our future. We worked on our digital storytelling skills across a range of media which included building elements of our project in Minecraft. We were encouraged to remember the past 100 years and imagine what the next 100 years could bring.
We worked really hard on this project. Mrs. Murray’s mam is a history teacher and lent us lots of history books, articles, newspapers and artefacts for researching the 1916 Rising.
We watched many of the excellent documentaries on RTE and TG4 detailing the 1916 Rising and took notes on these.
We used our Senior Room OneNote Classroom Notebook to gather all of our work together. This meant that when we researched either using books or the Internet with our Surface devices everything was kept in one collaborative space.
Triggy from 6th class used Sway to collate all of the information in one place. We loved using Sway as the photographs and videos etc are all Creative Commons. This means that they can be used for education and it was so easy to create and edit. See our project Sway here:
https://sway.com/tDjZpJn0APEzD2MS
Above you can read our Proclamation for a New Generation as created by the students from 3rd to 6th class.
Our film Portal to MindRising was adapted from original stories written by Kiwi and Triggy. Construction was completed in Minecraft by 5th and 6th class and the screencasting and editing was completed by 6th class.
The film we created; Portal to MindRising can be seen above.
We also printed out the project for display in the hall so everyone in the parish can see it. Thanks to Ms. Kearns and Ms. Stokes for helping us put the printed project together.
We had a ball meeting all of the other MindRisers in Dublin and finding out more about their projects. The projects can be viewed here.