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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
It's Mo time...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Realtime Board - Collaborative Online Brainstorming
Realtime Board is a new online tool for hosting online, collaborative brainstorming sessions. Realtime Board provides a blank grid on which you can type, draw, and post pictures. You can connect elements on your boards through a simple linking tool. The boards that you create on Realtime Board can be shared publicly or privately. To help you communicate with your collaborators Realtime Board has a chat function built into every board.
You can use Realtime Board by creating an account on the site. You can also use Realtime Board by signing in with your Google or Facebook account.
Applications for Education
Realtime Board could be a great tool for students to use to work together to generate mind maps or to plan a project.
Realtime Board could be a great tool for students to use to work together to generate mind maps or to plan a project.
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Stop Frame Animator - Create Stop Motion Videos
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
To get started creating your stop motion video select a background scene then drag your characters into place. While you have nine background scenes to choose from, the only characters you can use are wooden manikins. You can position the manikins' arms and legs in every scene. After choosing your scene and characters you can add some other props like chairs and beach balls. And if you want you can add sound effects and music to your video by selecting them from the Stop Frame Animator gallery.
To get started creating your stop motion video select a background scene then drag your characters into place. While you have nine background scenes to choose from, the only characters you can use are wooden manikins. You can position the manikins' arms and legs in every scene. After choosing your scene and characters you can add some other props like chairs and beach balls. And if you want you can add sound effects and music to your video by selecting them from the Stop Frame Animator gallery.
Stop Frame Animator productions cannot be saved locally, but they can be saved online if you create an account. You can share your productions by emailing them to friends.
Applications for Education
If you're looking for a different way for your students to create short stories, have them try Stop Frame Animator. The challenge of using Stop Frame Animator is getting students to tell stories without using words. This process will require students to make careful selection of props and sound effects.
Thanks to Nathan Hall for sharing Stop Frame Animator with me.
Applications for Education
If you're looking for a different way for your students to create short stories, have them try Stop Frame Animator. The challenge of using Stop Frame Animator is getting students to tell stories without using words. This process will require students to make careful selection of props and sound effects.
Thanks to Nathan Hall for sharing Stop Frame Animator with me.
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
How Can You Spell “Fish” As G-H-O-T-I?
This came up in conversation today with my Teaching Assistant Kerrie today following the Reading twilight training yesterday.
Many people learning English find it a very difficult language to pronounce and spell. Many writers, too, complain about this very same thing, since a sound can be spelled by several different letters, and a letter can have several different sounds.
One very famous English writer, George Bernard Shaw, felt very strongly about this. One day, to amuse himself and his audience, Shaw pointed out that "g-h-o-t-i" can spell fish, and spell it logically.
He showed that if you took:
gh as in "enough," you get the f sound
o as in "women," you get the i sound
ti as in "nation," you get the sh sound.
o as in "women," you get the i sound
ti as in "nation," you get the sh sound.
So the letters "g-h-o-t-i" can logically be used to spell fish.
But we wouldn't suggest trying this on your next composition at school!
Dyslexia Week Reading
This involves a little bit of reading but it fits in well with what Matt Jones was saying at Twilight training yesterday.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
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