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Tag: Youtube
Human ingenuity will never cease to be amazing – look for it in your students too.
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Application: Some Lemonade
For many people, the internet does not just revolve around Facebook, or Twitter, or Tumbler, or Youtube. In fact, many internet users have accounts at all these applications and more. Some Lemonade exists to simplify the feed that comes in from these accounts. Some Lemonade allows you to ‘filter’ the feeds that you wish to view. Starting with your Twitter sign in, options continue to exist for other application sign ups.
One thing I was particularly impressed with was that the links to pictures and videos that are shortened in the Twitter updates are shown in full blown colour and size.
No doubt applications like this will continue to be launched, and Some Lemonade has shown a cool and refreshing way to update, favourite and read your feeds and accounts.
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While it reminds me a little of the preserved heads on Futurama, this is an amazing feat for technology. Eric Whitacre put together a choir of 185 singers from 12 countries who never sang together until their voices were edited together. Eric’s blog contains further information about the how and where and why it all happened. Here they perform Whitacre’s composition Lux Aurumque. Enjoy.
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Application: 1,2,3 Sheep (A$3.99 from iTunes)
Last year at the Vitta Conference I had opportunity to hear news about App_tiude, a new application developer who is specifically targeting primary students and schools with their product for the iTouch/iPhone. I received news last week that the first application 1,2,3 Sheep has been launched and is now ready for download from iTunes, and seeing as though they sent me a $10 iTunes voucher to do so, I did.
123 Sheep is a clever and engaging game that was developed in consultation with teachers and has been trialled in schools with students aged 6 and 7. My daughter loves playing with it (she’s in Year One) and I’ll try and coerce her into doing a video review in their near future.
Children explore basic counting concepts in three fun activities – flying a helicopter around the farm, herding sheep into pens and guiding the sheepdog into the truck.
The game difficulty automatically adapts to match their progress, with content based on the school curriculum. Children are drawn to the friendly, detailed graphics, playful audio and lots of humorous encouragement.
There are three fun counting games that this application revolves around, but the interesting extension to this is the ability for it to be used on a class set of iPods with the teacher being able to track and assess each student. As of the time of writing, this functionality has not yet been released but should be shortly.
More information about the company App_titude can be found via their website and you can follow them on Twitter too.
You can find more about the application via their YouTube video;
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Another humorous video this week. This guy has re-arranged some TV theme songs for our enjoyment. I think he does some of them better than the originals.
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Here’s a reminder that out of little ideas, big things can grow. Here’s the first video that was uploaded to YouTube 5 years ago. For more info on the YouTube story click here
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A bit of a different flavour here for the Video of the Week – after all, it is Friday!
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This week’s Video was referred to me by @andrewc9. Are there ways that we can ask students to do something normally considered dull, but by adding an element of fun, change their whole outlook to a task? Be challenged.
”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here;
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