TY videos

Here are some of the TY end of year IT videos that have been sent to me so far. Enjoy :D

Elizabeth nearly threw her laptop out the window when making her video but I think you'll agree, it is pretty brilliant. Well done Elizabeth.



Megan sent a message to herself from her future self with some very important information. Very sensible Megan and it's a lovely video.




Eve made a movie about her TY work experience at Aspire Design. Have a look at what she got up to.

Ciara is passionate about football and it certainly shows in her video below. Look at those skills!



Amanda recorded her TY year in photos, Orla interviewed The Strypes via Facebook, and Zoe made her own medley and played piano for her favourite movies.

Lisa and Aoibhinn made videos to be added to our TY blog - Our Music Rooms - a collaborative project with St Scolastica's College in Australia. Both videos are about traditional Irish music.


Enjoy
Mrs L :)

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 :)

Caught in the web of the Junior Spider Awards

This month 7 TY's entered the eircom Junior Spider Awards. Well done to each and every one for having such good blogs that they were very worthy of entering this competition. Each girl had put in a lot of work to their blogs, designing them, updating them, and making sure anyone who read their blogs would go away with a real idea of what we do in TY.

Well done to Abbie, Katie, Eilíse, Shannon, Aideen, Chanice and Katie H

An extra well done to Katie H for being shortlisted in the Best Concept category. At least she doesn't compete with the TY 2011/2012 St Brigid blog that was also shortlisted but in the Best Project category. Katie will join Meg, Aoibheann, and Kate from last years TY classes as we all go to the RDS on March 5th for the finals.

Good luck Katie and TY 2011/2012

Making music with Jabba Jabba Jembe

Last week TY's had Jembe workshops with Dave from Jabba Jabba Jembe. 

Needless to say there was great fun and a few photos and videos were taken. Here's one Ava took of class Cairdeas performing their own pieces they composed at the worksops.



Check out the TY blogs to see what they have said about it, but judging by the smiles on the day I expect they all had great fun. Thanks to Ms Mahon for organising the workshops and of course to David Day for more excellent workshops again this year.

Rápido y Furioso at Kfm for F1

Last week Katie, Ciara and Eilísewent to Kfm to chat to Clem Ryan about Team Rápido y Furioso. He got a wee bit confused between Mini Company and F1 in Schools competitions but the girls so put him right though!

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Visit Team Rápio y Furioso blog here and why not follow them on Facebook and Twitter?

Find out more about the F1 in Schools competition here and visit Kfm for more music and craic from Clem here.

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 :)

Cars, Teddies, snakes and Robert Sheehan - typical TY!

Here's a few more blogs to read.

Katie's looking for followers for her F1 in School team Rápido y Furioso,

Ciara's all Teddy Bears and Crumble,

Shannon gets up close and personal with a snake at the BTYSE!

and 

Megan's in love with Robert Sheehan. Incase we don't know who he is, Lauren shows us who they are talking about!

TY's have been updating their blogs

Back to school after christmas and the TY's have been updating their blogs - just in time for the 3rd Years who will be checking the blogs in the process of deciding if they should do TY next year or not.

Read these blogs to find out what we've been up to since December:

Aoibhinn's TY blog

Ciara's TY Blog Xperience 

Lisa's TY blog 

Shannon's wild adventure

A trip to the ballet

Before Christmas we went to see the Irish National Youth Ballet at the Pavilion, in Dublin. Abbie thought it was amazing. Here is her post about it:


On Friday, we went to see the Irish National Youth Ballet perform 'The Little Nutcracker'. There were two girls from our school dancing in the ballet, the skill of all the dancers in the ballet was amazing. They all moved so gracefully around the stage and performed all their dance moves so precisely!


In the video above, the Irish National Youth Ballet are performing their opening number to the show. 
Abbie :)

Read more of Abbie's blog here.

Shannon's work experience video

Shannon has just completed a work experience at NUI Maynooth Chemistry Department. She made a short video of her time there.



Read more of Shannon's blog here.

Catch the Cyberbully

How to take screen shots of cyberbullying messages on your computer.

Ghouls in the House!

Yesterday was halloween dress up day - scary things in the corridors!

Woooooo :0

New faces in video land!

This week both Shannon and Roisin recorded their blog posts via video. Shannon tells us about her Geography project and Roisin tells us about the Fun Walk last Friday.

Well done to both girls for taking the plunge and recording their news! All done and dusted in one IT class too. Here's hoping other TY's want to get into recording and using video.




Read more of Shannon's blog here, and Roisin's blog here. Why not pop over and leave them a comment?
Mrs L :)

TY News - October 2012

There was lots of giggling today and many takes to record our news. Thanks to Abbie and Muireann for staying serious long enough to make this news report!

Challenge Busters of Carlingford!

More fun from our Carlingford teambuilding trip.