Learning how to embed a video to my blog!

 During I.T class this week Mrs.L showed us how to embed a video from YouTube to our blog. It's so easy to do, hopefully now I will be able to post more videos to my blog!
How to embed:
1) Find video on YouTube
2) Click 'share' underneath the video and click embed.
3) Copy the embed code
4) Open a New Post in your blog and click 'HTML' in the left hand top corner and paste the embeding code there.
5) Click publish!

If you have followed the steps above you have now successfully embeded a video to your blog!

-Abbie :)

Smile

As you know for Work Experience, I'm working at a Dental Surgery. I'm really enjoying my time here, the staff are really friendly and so helpful!

This week was really busy at the surgery, it was probably my best week so far! I was aloud to take all phone calls and make/change appointments for people on the Apple computer 'Surgery' system. I was taking calls throughout the day! 

I was also doing other tasks including getting files of the patients from the cabinet, making 'take home packs' for the patients after they have had teeth extracted and also making up the protective glasses for the patients! 

For more info on the tasks I have done take a look at my Work Exeperience blog linked along the side of the page!

Blog soon, Abbie :)

The Simon Community

During school on Firday, there was a talk organised by students in our year to be given on The Simon Community. This presentation was given by Ms.O'S, my art teacher, she explained to us the work The Simon Community does in Cork and how they incorporate people living in the Simon Houses to the local community.

Ms.O'S had previously worked with the Cork Simon Community and was involved with one project in particular; the big 'Four-o' project. This project involved making and art banner containing the work of residents of the Simon houses, each resident was given a blank canvas and created, along with the help of artists like Ms.O'S, a masterpiece. Each piece of art was copied and printed onto a large banner which was hung in Cork city. The art work created was beautiful and expressed so many emotions. I thought that this was really a great project and I found Ms.O'S's stories of how each piece was created to be really inspiring.

An example of some of the Big Four-O artwork.

Young Scientist

Last month we were told about Young Scientist, the annual science competition in the RDS for students. Sarah B, Eve L and myself decided we would put an entry in! We thought long and hard about our project idea to enter. We eventually decided on the title Is a good night's sleep really that important?, we planned to research how sleep deprivation affects students mentally and physically.

We worked hard on our proposal and sent it off to the Young Scientist for approval. Our project wasn't chosen out of the entries to display at the RDS but on the bright side we were given 3 family tickets, one for each of us! We were dissapointed we didn't qualify but we are looking forward to going to the exhibition to look at all the other great projects there!

Junior Camogie

On Tuesday, I went to a camogie match near Santry! We were playing St.Dominic's school, this was the first time I played a Junior Camogie match this year. The bus journey took around a half an hour, when we arrived at the pitch we started warming up and got ready to play our match, I played as a forward! We unfortunately lost the match but it was a close game! The team had a good time out though, we all had a laugh on the bus! Hopefully we might be more lucky next time!

October's over, Now here's November

October was probably the busiest month we have had of TY so far! For October, We have been working on all our class projects.

Mini Company:

The mini-company group that I am part of has finalised all our ideas for our company! We have created a company called DIY Dye, we are going to be selling kits to make it easy for people to dye their own shorts (or other clothes too) and stud them also! I think our kits will be useful to people as it's a cheap way to make cool designs with your old shorts and give your old clothes a new look!

Our company logo!

Technology F1 car competition:

This month our year started in on another project in our tech class! As part of the project we have to design  a race-car and enter it into the 'Formula1 schools competition'. If our idea is chosen out of the many that enter, our design will be manufactured into a mini-race car! Our team name is Titanium, we thought of this name as titanium is a really strong and durable metal, like our car would be! Our inspiration for the design comes from a cheetah, the world's fastest land animal!

Trip Around The World:

We started our 'trip around the world' geography project during October! We work in pairs for this project. We are set a budget of €24,000 and we have to plan an ideal trip around the world for two people. We must visit 2 developing countries, 2 underdeveloped countries and 2 developed countries! We will learn about the country's cultures and traditions as we 'travel' aorund the world on this trip!

Check back for more updates on my TY experience soon!