Saturday, April 30, 2011

How To Connect Multiple Av Components

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.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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After School 2.0

During the questions in Zaragoza (Thanks to Toni Nadal for the photo)

closed on Friday at the Second Congress Zaragoza School 2.0 in which we had chance to participate. As we by here, we were presenting our work in www.vedoque.com . We split the job and I (Antonio) began presenting the web: getting started, our starting ideas ... Then Mary Jesus undertook to explain how to use Vedoque in the Classroom with the fundamental idea of \u200b\u200busing the game to build learning. Here You can view the presentations:



soon publish the video to exposure in the media library section of Congress page. When you do link to here, meanwhile you can see all the experiences delivered on day 13 already published. All we saw were very good live. Colleagues from the Canary Islands, José Marcelo González Pérez and Luz Marina Ramirez War, showed us how to use the platform Chamilo, an interesting alternative to Moodle. We drew special attention to the collaborative activity for the area of \u200b\u200bEnglish. On 14
want to emphasize to our countrymen in Murcia:

  • The city as interactive teaching resource for Social Sciences. Luis Antonio Pérez Ortiz .
  • School 2.0 digital units. Antonia Pérez Maite Nadal and Donato Pujalte.
addition to classroom experiences, we were in several round tables and conferences in the opening and closing. Now we have much work to do, see the communications that could not attend and that other students said they had been interesting.
Another great experience was meeting personally Celestino Arteta, who knew from his work to promote ICT in Education. I also like to meet again Blonde Manuel Jesus who was my professor in the Master of Secondary Education at the University of Almeria and is another major driver of ICT in the classroom.
Our findings of Congress, three very intense days of sharing experiences, learning, meeting people and looking forward innovative and capacity to improve education. We wish to thank, as we did in Twitter, all attendees to our presentation and the heads of the Ministry of Murcia for inviting us. Also to all advisers Murcia CPR with whom we share the post-conference.
Arriving Congress did not know that participants voted for choosing classroom experiences more he liked them. We were lucky to get the 4 th prize.
(If you have time, will tell you more things because the truth is that as we have said, three days have been particularly intense and inspiring. We need to talk about ARASAAC , television online at school, from work Secondary areas, card covers, Vitorinos ...)

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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We go to the Second Congress


On Thursday April 14 we will present Vedoque in II School 2.0 Congress held in Zaragoza. The conference opens Wednesday evening with the conference "Social Learning and the School opened in 2.0" by Ms. Dolors Reig Hernandez de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Our
presentation will take place within the area of \u200b\u200b" Classroom Experiences" on Thursday 14 April at 16:40 in the classroom 1.4 Conference and Expo Zaragoza. Once we're done here will get the materials we use in the presentation and our Twitter ( http://twitter.com/asalinasci and http://twitter.com/mjvedoque ) try to tell what we discover. Twitter can also find the hastag # escuela20 what counts the other participants.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Turning An Outboard To Electric Start

School 2.0 On the (in) general culture of youth

Arcadi Espada has written an article on the (in) general culture among youth and adolescents, referring to a work Berta Gonzalez de la Vega . Apart from more or less worrisome, one of the ideas that I liked is that it does not stay in the classic "Where are we going to go" and suggests that it is just that in this age of ignorance is more visible.

To improve the general knowledge, Berta intends to make the final ten questions of college exams and give extra points to those who successfully resolved. As an example, the following:
  1. Capital of Libya
  2. Number of European Union countries
  3. Century World War
  4. Jorge Luis Borges Nationality
  5. Name 4 ministers of the current government of Spain.
  6. Number of people in Spain. Logarithm
  7. e
  8. Why was suspended Olympics 1944?
  9. What separates the veins of the arteries?
  10. What is Silicon Valley?
Article have to use these questions to conduct a survey and the answers have been recorded at street level, are not exactly encouraging on the cultural knowledge of young people. Is clearly not a representative sample, it is not a sufficient number .... But he would not go into that, what interests me is that I have thought of another way to make a modest contribution to improving the situation or at least have fun and learn from us in the attempt.

My idea clearly unoriginal, is to create a blog in which we will publish daily a "pill" culture on a topic related to current events. Not a rehash of news but simple, straightforward information. For example, as we are concerned about the situation in Libya, it would be good to start by explaining the basic facts about Libya (location, population, capital ...) so that you can then better understand what is happening or at least know where you are going . Whenever possible, accompany the basic information and links to a story in depth. Only one entry per day publish and conduct a test on Sunday as published during the week. Will accumulate the results and even create a Topten with the best, although this can not convince us fully.

Of course the comments will be open for any further information, correct it or ask them to explain something better. Even those who are anime, we will reserve a position as editor.

sure there are already similar things online, but want to focus on education and make it a daily read (almost) mandatory among our students. They should leave a comment in which it was clear they had read the article. Perhaps it would be good to make two versions, one for primary and one for Secondary Did you find it interesting the initiative?

Friday, April 1, 2011

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of March Statistics


already a long time since we published any statistics www.vedoque.com as this past month has been the record, here are some facts:

  • pageviews March:
  • 2,138,434 Unique Visitors in March: 488,555
  • Average daily page views: 68,982
  • Average unique visitors: 15,760
  • the day with more page views was 31 March with 102,392
  • The day was more unique visitors March 30 with 21,648

Right now, we do not care too much statistics but we sure am glad that more and more people find it interesting that we do.