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Reflecting on two years of being a techincal comucation and e-learning podcast.
My final blog post as part of TW6082 Learning and Collaborative Technologies was to recap on the year (or for me, two years) gone by since we started our masters. Due to the word count of this assignment and other personal commitments, I could only cover the skills I gained and motivations I had throughout... Continue Reading →
Podcasting using Audacity- Tips, Tricks, Advice and Struggles
As part of EL6042, I had to create an instructional and informative podcast. I recorded each audio track using the voice recorder application on my laptop and edited the podcast with Audacity. Here are tips, tricks, advice and struggles I faced for anyone interested in creating their own podcast. Struggles, One mistake I made was... Continue Reading →
Neurodivergent Celebration Week: Social, Finical and Health Aspects of Neurodivergent Life
(CAS2021 2019) Last week I wrote a post on the links between neurodiversity, education, and employment. This week I will continue writing about neurodiversity but this time about socialisation, housing, and healthcare. As an eLearning designer, I promote Universal Design for Learning as much as possible, especially within education. I decided to move away from... Continue Reading →
Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2023: Neurodiversity in education and beyond
Next Monday marks the start of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, so in honour of all my fellow neurodiverse peers, I decided to write a post on neurodiversity, education and employment. What is neurodiversity? Neurodiversity refers to any neurological disabilities, including autism, ADHD and dyslexia. Australian sociologist Judy Singer invented the term. Here is Singer's definition of... Continue Reading →
Educational for all, but is it really?: The social barriers to education
Last week I talked about the Edinburgh Seven and some financial barriers to education in the 21st century. This week I will talk about some of the social barriers to education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R18Jlqpx2r8&ab_channel=BBCNewsnight Check out this interesting video from the BBC on the topic of Social Mobility (BBC Newsnight 2018) One key factor in the social... Continue Reading →
Is education still a privilege?: The economic barriers to learning
When looking through lecture notes from a module I studied in my undergraduate degree, I found a slide reminding students that education was once a privilege. This lecture on technology and education informed students about Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh Seven . This poses a question, is education still a privilege today, and if so,... Continue Reading →
Is our technology too smart?: AI and Data Projection
Examples of our phones are listening into us A screenshot of my phone on 31 January, when the article first appeared on my phone Nowadays people are very aware of how our phones are listening to us. One practical feature of Chrome on all Android phones is the news feature which suggests what it deems... Continue Reading →
My Favourite Projects
One of my assignments for my Elearning Master’s is to create an ePorrfilo, and this is an excellent example of how to approach this task. Found this post via the About Me page, which was shared on LinkedIn (when doing work for another assignment), and I find this really useful. Well done on a great job Caoimhe and I would love some advice on how to create a similar Eportfilo for my assignment
Dublin Castle Young Writers Group
While volunteering with Fighting Words, I often supervised “Write Club”, which was an after-school and weekend club for teenagers who wanted a creative space to pursue their own creative writing. I enjoyed this experience but thought it would be great to take this one step further and have the young writers share their work and provide feedback on each others’ work.
When I started working in Dublin Castle, I organised a writing workshop for teenagers interested in writing historical fiction inspired by Dublin Castle. The workshop involved a tour of the castle followed by a creative writing workshop, after which they were encouraged to share their work. This was the first education event I organised in Dublin Castle and I was very pleased with how it went.
I approached my manager with the idea to bring the group back for a series of writing workshops…
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Reflection on an OER project
The cover image is a screenshot of my OER website, which can be accessed here As part of EL6072, I had to create an OER project and a corresponding proposal. The OER project helped increase my skills in creating eLearning resources, which will significantly benefit me when creating my summer development project. Like everything in... Continue Reading →
The Voice in the Darkness 