Sunday, May 1, 2011

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New game: Sum 10


We finished a new game: Sum 10 . Try our students develop skills and mental calculation strategies in a fun way. In an unconscious way many of us use the sum to the dozen as an intermediate step to complete an operation. However, in the early stages we see that this is something that children find it difficult enough to internalize and use.

The game is a fundamental element for the construction of learning strategies and of course, mental calculation skills. We have therefore referred the following activities:

  • Truck: The simplest where they have to stack a pile of boxes on the other, so that total 10. The amount is represented by boxes that can make a mental picture of the number 10 as magnitude.
  • Tubes: A mechanical arm moves a number released by pressing the red button. To complete it successfully will fall on the tube leading to the total number 10.
  • Boards: In each of the boards is raised a sum dragging the child must complete a number to that total 10. Cars
  • : You have to click on two cars whose numbers add up to 10 before they disappear.
  • The intruder : Has a previous reverse operation. In this case you must click on the number left over to join the other 10.
And now everyone click here to play and then leave us a comment with criticism and possible improvements.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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Learning English with dictates of the Second Congress


We are working on a new draft educational application for learning languages \u200b\u200bbased mainly on dictation. In other games, " The Peacock and the Crane " and " The fox and the grapes ", and include dictation, but not had been overly happy with the result because it seemed too complex texts for elementary students. This new tool has the following characteristics:

  • is based on the "Text to Speech" in Google Translate to pronounce any text you write in multiple languages. In this way we have absolute freedom in choosing the dictates sentences. We encountered a problem when using the sounds of the TTS in our hosting because we can not modify the crossdomain.xml and then security constraints not loaded. I solved using a proxy in PHP appearing on this page created by Abdul Qabiz .
  • As TTS voice sounds a little artificial and it is sometimes difficult to understand, we added the ability to use sound recordings in mp3. To get good sound we have discovered in Training and Resource Tatoeba project, which are experiencing the most common phrases in various languages. Its contents are licensed CC and very well, so we incorporated.
  • use Google Spreadsheets to create lessons. This saves us create forms and databases and have an open tool for creating lessons. Anyone can create a spreadsheet on Google docs as the previous image and publish it in ATOM format (button Share - Publish as web page - ATOM) with the sentences handed down.



still working to improve it, but you can try here . We have set the phrases related to a matter of English Secondary 2 and other useful when traveling. If anyone is interested in working or doing some testing, you can leave us a comment or send an email to asalinasci@gmail.com.