Eric Rosenbaum, creator of Singing Fingers, is working on a new app called Melody Morph – iPad app for constructing melodies and making improvised music. He says.. “MelodyMorph …. removes a constraint of traditional musical instruments: a fixed mapping between space and pitch. What if you blew up the piano so you could put the keys Full Article…
Create your own app!
OMG! It’s official – I am an app developer. I have been playing with a gem of a program from MIT called App Inventor. It’s free, easy to use and I’ll let you know how kids get on with it next week. Meanwhile, this kid is having a ball playing with it. Basically, you build Full Article…
Raspberry Pi
Very excited to be the owner of a Raspberry Pi – a truly wondrous device with huge potential in the classroom. I was rather hoping I could use it in primary schools, but having battled with it for about a week with when it first arrived, I’d probably only use it it with 13-14 yr Full Article…
15 Interesting ways to use visualisers in the classroom
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16 interesting ways to support maths in the classroom
16 Interesting ways to support Maths in your classroom
Makey Makey
Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, from the Lifelong Kindergarten Media Lab in MIT, make the best fun tech-toys ever. Our favourite is Makey Makey, a credit card sized PCB which allows you to control the bottom 8 keys on your keyboard plus the arrow keys by attaching almost anything which conducts electricity to your Full Article…