Décryptage Le mystère du manuscrit de Voynich Pour la Science no 323, Septembre 2004 Gordon Rugg est professeur au Département de mathématiques et d'informatique de l'Université de Keele, en Angleterre, et rédacteur en chef de la revue Expert Systems. Une nouvelle analyse d'un document médiéval énigmatique suggère qu'il ne contient que des suites de mots dépourvues de sens. En 1912, Wilfrid Voynich, un libraire américain spécialiste de livres rares, fit la découverte de sa vie dans la bibliothèque de la Villa Mandragone près de Rome: un manuscrit de quelque 230 pages écrit en caractères étranges et illustré de surprenants dessins de plantes, de sphères célestes et de baigneuses. L'oeil du bébé dieu L'essai de Newbold a été le premier d'une série d'échecs. Un code pour la tromperie Plusieurs chercheurs, comme Jorge Stolfi de l'Université de Campinas au Brésil, se sont demandé si le manuscrit de Voynich a été construit à l'aide de tableaux de production aléatoire de texte. Un code, mais pas de message
Speech to Text in Google Documents Last week I published a list of ten good Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons. This week through a Tweet by Jen Deyenberg I learned of another good one to add to the list. Speech Recognition is a free Google Docs Add-on that will allow to you speak to create a document. The Speech Recognition Add-on does have one major flaw. Last week I published a list of ten good Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons. Speech Recognition is a free Google Docs Add-on that will allow to you speak to create a document. The Speech Recognition Add-on does have one major flaw.
Using non-linear stories to gamify your books Idea: make use of hyperlinks in Book Creator and see students’ imaginations come to the fore when they create interactive books. Adam Foster is an experienced Primary School Teacher who teaches across Key Stage 1 and 2, as well as co-ordinating ICT at a Preparatory School in Wolverhampton, UK. He has been using iPads in his teaching for the past 4 years and also supports schools around the UK and Europe with integrating mobile technology into the curriculum. Book Creator was one of the first apps we installed on our school iPads in 2011 and we have gone on to use it across the whole of Key Stage 1 and 2. Interactive adventure stories This term I have been working on a project with Year 6 to create interactive adventure stories using Book Creator. The objective was two-fold, firstly to develop literacy skills, but also as an activity linked with the World War 1 100 Years Week that the school recently undertook. Let the reader choose their path What we’re doing next iPad Teacher Guide
Microsoft Released A New Website to Help Teachers Use Minecraft in Their Classes July 10, 2015 Minecraft is an immersive learning environment that has started as a game about creating, exploring and managing resources before it becomes one of the leading educational learning platforms for students. A few days ago, Microsoft, Minecraft’s parent company, announced the release of a new website, Minecraft for Education, geared towards providing teachers with a forum where they can share their ideas about how they use Minecraft in their teaching. ‘Minecraft in education is a way to teach, learn and inspire. It’s students visiting ancient civilizations to create and play out their own stories. It’s exploring mathematical concepts like perimeter, area, and volume by breaking and placing Minecraft blocks. It’s practising collaboration, problem solving, digital citizenship, and leadership skills through creative thinking and innovative design. Here are some examples of how some teachers are using Minecraft in their classes:
Storyspace 3: Space and Time, more from the Map view – The Eclectic Light Company Much of the time, tutorials and demonstrations of sophisticated apps get bogged down in detail, and make the app look difficult to use. Very capable, yes, but equally daunting to the inexperienced user. This short and very simple tutorial should show you how easy it is to create visually attractive hypertext using Storyspace 3 – or beautiful notes using Tinderbox 6, as it transfers across directly too. When I am writing articles for my blog, I am constantly thinking in terms of hypertext, and how I could better express my stories using Storyspace. Having just completed writing a brief account of the cruelly short life of the brilliant nineteenth century British painter Richard Parkes Bonington, I thought that it might be valuable to display his paintings in France on a Map view to illustrate where they depicted, as well as on a timeline. I was also aware that my previous explorations of the Map view had been quite limited. Adjust the window size iteratively until you are happy.
16 Couple Pictures Which Raise Questions No One Could Answer Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator Lesson Plans | TELL A VISUAL NARRATIVE STORY WITH EDUCREATIONS Educreations is an app that turns the iPad into a recordable, interactive whiteboard for creating Khan’s Academy-style tutorials, lessons, or stories. It’s both a teaching and learning tool, allowing users to create lessons and browse what others have created. It’s very simple to use and intuitive, requiring very little time to learn, and created videos can be used by anyone via iPad or computer. Using Educreations, which enables students to narrate scripts, illustrate them, and share them with others, students become digital storytellers and examine writing through a new lens. Write or create an outline for a narrative story.Create and/or locate visuals to accompany story.Plan visual narration of story incorporating outline and visuals.Construct a clearly articulated, well-organized, and compelling visual narrative story that features spoken, written, and visual components.Identify and discuss the differences between written and visual styles of rhetoric. Writing Speaking and Listening
Create Digital Stories Toontastic now offers all of its features for free. Students can create cartoons using characters, backgrounds, and then built-in story arc and then narrate with their own voice recording. Students can choose from hundreds of characters and special effects or create their own. Completed stories can be saved to the Camera. Price: FreeEase-of-use: MediumUsefulness: 4 out of 5 With ThingLink, students create "touchable" images. This app allows you to create short, 30 second stories that come complete with a talking avatar (cartoon person) and pre-designed backgrounds or backgrounds that students create. Price: Free or $4.99Ease-of-use: EasyUsefulness: 5 out of 5 Students can easily create their own unique digital puppet shows to tell a story. Price: FreeEase-of-use: EasyUsefulness: 4 out of 5 Though technically a screencasting app, Explain Everything is also a fantastic digital storytelling tool. Price: $3.99Ease-of-use: MediumUsefulness: 5 out of 5
L’uso della timeline nella didattica: ambiti di applicazione, caratteristiche e funzionalità – BRICKS Timeline come strumento didattico La timeline rappresenta uno strumento immediato ed efficace per visualizzare in forma grafica una serie di eventi distribuiti in successione cronologica su un determinato asse virtuale, variamente definito in scansioni temporali. Il suo utilizzo sta diventando una prassi sempre più diffusa, come dimostra il numero crescente di web application disponibili in rete e, contestualmente, l’aumento della percezione delle sue potenzialità in ambito educativo. Diversamente dalla mappa mentale, in cui i concetti correlati si diramano da un’idea centrale, nella timeline la successione degli eventi è cronologica, senza quindi alcun tipo di gerarchia né rapporti di connessione e derivazione diretta tra i vari punti. Fig. 1 – Timeline sulla storia di Roma e della Grecia dal VI al III secolo a.C. Per quanto riguarda le strategie didattiche, la timeline può essere adottata efficacemente dall’insegnante per lavori da svolgere collettivamente o in piccoli gruppi. 1. 2.
Top Ways for Kids to Tell Digital Stories Top Ways for Kids to Tell Digital Stories When students want to tell a story digitally, or present information they know about, there are several excellent tech tools they can use. You may recall I compiled a List of Digital Storytelling Tools, which brought together links to the actual tools, links to my example of some tools, links to my whole reviews of other digital storytelling tools, and links to articles about digital storytelling in general. In Creating Digital Stories with iPad, I focused on iPad tools only and brought together apps I’d reviewed, and a list of other possible apps. Recently I was asked to choose a few of my favourite ways for kids to make a digital story or presentation of some kind. Story With/without Pictures Storybird - web-based. Camera and an image editor - various. Pages - Software for Mac. Strip Designer - iOS app. We Publish - iOS app. Presentation Tools Shadow Puppet - iOS app. Comic or Cartoon ToonToolkit - iOS app. Comic Life - Software for PC and Mac.
Little Bird Tales: Free Digital Storytelling, Presentations and Lessons with Audio for Kids A List of Digital Storytelling Tools A List of Digital Storytelling Tools by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com Because I’m trying to make it easier for readers to find themed posts in one place, I’ve been using Listly to gather them together. In this List of Digital Storytelling Tools, embedded below, I’ve put some links to the actual tools, links to my example of some tools, links to my whole reviews of other digital storytelling tools, and links to articles about digital storytelling in general. I’ll be regularly updating this post via Listly so go ahead and bookmark it/share it if you want to find these articles in one place. (Be sure to use the arrow bottom right to navigate to the next page of the list once total is over 26.) You’ll find some doubling up with my list, Creating with Kids and iPad Apps.