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Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Happy 2015
Music from Bike Rides youtube audio
Robot Remix
Here is one of the many remixes of our first grade robot projects created by project partners in Chukyo University. Click on the studio to see others. They are great fun!
World Museum Music Project (The Songbird Project)
Back in 2006 I created The Circle Song project that involved children in many countries singing the same ‘Circle Song.’ Now, seven years later, I wanted to try doing something similar but in Scratch. I made a simple sample project and shared it with Yoshiro Miyata, Chukyo University. He took the idea of the song project and redesigned the project so that the songbird (created by our art teacher) would fly around the world map that he had coded. As the songbird hovers over songs from various countries, the sound files from those countries play. He added a feature so that as the bird approached the area where the song was played, it would increase in volume. He also added code to the project so that I was able to easily (with some practice) add new music files to the project. I contacted my original ‘Circle Song’ friends and others to ask if they would be able to record a traditional song to share. Some of these friends were from the Hello Little World Skypers group, and some were friends from other projects that I had done. Many friends sent me video or audio file in various formats that I converted to mp3’s and uploaded to Scratch 2.0. My friend Adel in Tunisia, also included the project in a Pass it On exercise in the Creative Computing Online Workshop. My online friends Stefan and Mikhail shared this link on their school blogs.
I hope that more people will contribute music files and we will fill this Songbird Project with more beautiful sounds from around the world.
Water Creatures
Students created water creature sprites in Scratch for the wonderful World Museum Water Creature project. Click on the link to explore the amazing site designed by Yoshiro Miyata and his students in Chukyo University with contributions from children in many places around the world.
http://wmuseum.hiroba.sist.chukyo-u.ac.jp/WaterCreature1303map.html
Happy Valentine’s Day!
A Very Quick November!
It has been such a busy few weeks, I completely missed posting about Thanksgiving! Maybe it is because it came just after the two days off from Hurricane Sandy and Veterans Day weekend. And now, we are already into the Christmas season.
A quick update on Vasya and Penny in Ross Island, Antarctica. They are both doing well and Jean Pennycook reported that they have two eggs! Great news for all of the Jackson first graders who are following them on http://www.penguinscience.com We look forward to watching the pair as they await their baby chicks! And are delighted to have international neighbors with an adopted penguin from Stefan Nielson’s class in Denmark named Mary and his mate, named Pocholo by students in José Manuel Sáez López class in Petrola, Spain.
Over the next few weeks we are going to work on our Christmas houses in Scratch at the upper grade levels and some holiday greetings in K – 2. With an early Thanksgiving we have a few more days in December to enjoy the wonderful Christmas holidays ahead.
As of this posting it looks like there are 13 sailors who remain in the Vendee Globe. I was very sad to see that Samantha Davies had a demasting early on in the race. She is an inspiration and role model for everyone. Now just 15 days into the race and Vincet Riou, Zbigniew Gutkowski, Jeremie Beyou, Louis Burton, Kito de Pavant and Marc Guillemot are all in the ‘Retired’ group. All of these sailors are the most amazing in the world. I will treasure the book France to France, Antarctica to the Starboard that Skipper Rich Wilson wrote this past summer. He tells his story of the Vendee Globe 2008. There are not that many people who have had the successful completion of this epic race. I am so happy that Rich was able to. Good luck and safe travels to all of the sailors who remain in this year’s race. And for those in the New England area, I recommend Rich Wilson’s upcoming talks in Salem and Marblehead: http://www.facebook.com/rich.wilson.355
Happy Birthday Scratch!
Happy Birthday Scratch!!
You can create a birthday balloon to celebrate Scratch’s 5th birthday! Directions are at the following link: http://sns.hiroba.sist.chukyo-u.ac.jp/worldmuseum/projects/world-scratch-birthday-project Have fun!
Read about other World Museum Projects designed by Professor Yoshiro Miyata here:
A Christmas Tree in Scratch!
Here is an image from the Scratch animation completed by children in Aichi, Japan under the direction of Professor Yoshiro Miyata.
A screenshot of a Christmas tree created by Jackson students and Professor Yoshiro Miyata in Aichi, Japan as part of the World Museum Project.
Sixth graders completed a Christmas tree project in collaboration with students in Japan. Click on the link to see the wonderful animations in Scratch. Christmas tree animations Special thanks to Professor Yoshiro Miyata of Chukyo University in Aichi, Japan for all of his work on this project. Thanks also to the students in Japan for their wonderful creations!! Please feel free to leave positive comments on the World Museum Project blog.