Showing posts with label early. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early. Show all posts
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Early Years Apps for Learning
More antidotes of very young learners becoming engaged by and using apps continue to surface. There is even early evidence that preschoolers who use iPads for some guided activities have a small advantage with language acquisition. Dr D Bebell, Sue Dorris and Dr Mike Muir from the Auburn School District presented to Auburn School District Committee. This has yet to be proven conclusively but may have interesting outcomes for early years teachers.
Alphabet Deluxe: $0.99 AU
Stories about Me: FREE
Letterschool: $2.99 AU
Spellmania: $0.99 AU
ABC FlashCards: $2.99 AU
Ready to Print: $10.49
Pencils Words and Kids: $5.49 AU
Its Learning Time: $0.99 AU
AAC Language Lab: $1.99 AU
There was no suggestion of which apps were used in the study but it did make me curious to see what apps were available for early learners. Here are a number of apps that can be used by preschool and infants age kids.
Learn - toggle through the alphabet to see the pictures and words that start with the letter chosen. Press the picture to hear it. Practice- Choose the letter that the picture starts with. Play- This fun activity is great for all ages. Press the circle to reveal a random letter. Choose from the nine colored markers and start drawing something that starts with that letter.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/alphabet-game-deluxe/id528102498?mt=8
Stories About Me allows parents and teachers to create their own social stories for their children and students. Blending photos, text, and voice recordings into a talking picture book, children can playback rich media stories of their own personal experiences. Swiping advances the pages and tapping plays the audio; simple as that!
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/stories-about-me/id531603747?mt=8
Learning to write letters and numerals will never be the same after a child tries LetterSchool. This app has raised the bar for all letter/numeral recognition apps. Children’s Technology Review. A fantastic program to familiarize kindergartners with the alphabet. This intelligently designed app will captivate the user through entertaining animations and an easy to navigate interface.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/letterschool/id435476174?mt=8
Wonder Kids: FREE
Wonder Kids is an educational application for toddlers, pre-school and elementary school children. Fun Learning Activities, as coloring, drawing, matching games, jigsaw puzzles and Bingo games. Contributing to the all-round and linguistic development of kids, the application gives them a sense of achievement and enormous satisfaction.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/wonder-kids/id446308264?mt=8
SpellMania encourages players to spell and learn harder and harder words. If the player makes a mistake, the host will repeat the word letter by letter with the correct spelling displayed on screen. Any misspelled words are more likely crop up again in the game, giving players another chance to get it right, reinforcing the learning.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/spellmania-au/id526303637?mt=8
Kids learn their ABCs through play when they make the Dinosaur roar, Zip the Zipper, and more! Every letter is a unique, interactive toy! The memorable flash cards engage children in learning and aid in development. Develops reading foundational skills including uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and phonics sounds
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/alphabet-abc/id383967580?mt=8
Created by an Occupational Therapist. Ready to Print is a tool for parents, therapists and educators to help teach pre-writing skills to children to build a strong foundation for beginning printers. Ready to Print progresses through the pre-writing skills so that children can master the visual-motor, visual-perceptual, and fine motor skills.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ready-to-print/id513780564?mt=8
This app is a How To guide for kids and their mentors to get the words flowing. This app is not about grammar and spelling. The creative writing process is presented in entries and photos of kids writing, original artwork, and inspiring scenes. The photos will fuel brainstorming for stories, essays and poems.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pencils-words-kids/id488254899?mt=8
Can you complete each level by setting cuckoo’s clock correctly 12 times? Choose the level of play you wish to practise then drag the minute hand around the clock to match the time spoken. Press the yellow button to see if you’re correct, if you are, cuckoo comes out to say hello! Multiple levels.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/its-learning-time/id403583181?mt=8
This app addresses all four language objectives to help early language learners as well as children with expressive language delays who use augmentative and alternative communication methods. Use the ‘Learn’ and ‘Practice’ buttons to direct the child to find a specific target words.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/language-lab/id527182200?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/language-lab/id527182200?mt=8
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Socialistic realism and my early days
Honestly, one of the reasons, why I decided to become a sculptor at age of 14, growing up in post soviet Latvia, was the impact of the monumental sculpture of the Soviet Era. During the Soviet times, sculptors where only official millionaires and in a very high social position. Monumental sculpture was the visual propaganda tool for the regime and thats why it was well payed job. To be a sculptor back then was to be like a movie star nowadays. I was really excited and took the path on becoming a sculptor. By the time when I graduated Art Academy of Latvia at 2006 all was changed. However, being a sculptor in modern democratic society is way more fun and the creativity and freedom of expression is limitless.
Within the Anatomy 4 Sculptors project, I did research on socialist realism sculpture to determine the most useful ways on shaping and simplifying the forms of human figure. Soviet sculptors where good in simplifying and rationalizing the human form. This knowledge will be useful for designing the books block-out features.
Just for a record, Socialist Realism was the officially sanctioned style of art that dominated Soviet painting for 50 years from the early 1930s. The style and content was laid down by the state with the purpose of furthering the goals of socialism and communism. The result was a huge body of work by thousands of artists, the majority of which is stultifyingly boring and which has been mocked in the West ever since as “Girl meets tractor”. However, among all this art there were some artists who, whilst working loosely within the structures of Socialist Realism, managed to create work of interest and originality.
If yo want to learn more about socialistic realism, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism
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The most famous building in Victory Square. Sculpture is dedicated to the heroic defense of Leningrad and break the blockade of Leningrad. Built in 1975. Architects Архитекторы С. Б. Сперанский и В. А. Каменский
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Sculpture is dedicated to the heroic defense of Leningrad and break the blockade of Leningrad. Built in 1975. Architects Архитекторы С. Б. Сперанский и В. А. Каменский
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Sculpture is dedicated to the heroic defense of Leningrad and break the blockade of Leningrad. Built in 1975. Architects Архитекторы С. Б. Сперанский и В. А. Каменский
Lenin and kids
The allegorical statues of the "Let us Beat Swords into Plowshares." Installed at the UN building in New York (USA). It was a gift to the United Nations from what was then the Soviet Union.
Sculptor: Е. В. Вучетич
1957.
Lenin at Grutas Park Lithuania. Open In 2001, this park near the southern Belarus border.
Lenin at Grutas Park Lithuania. Open In 2001, this park near the southern Belarus border.
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Zair Isaakovich Azgur (1908-1995) was a Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period
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Zair Isaakovich Azgur (1908-1995) was a Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period
Zair Isaakovich Azgur (1908-1995) was a Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period
Zair Isaakovich Azgur (1908-1995) was a Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period
This monumental work by Е. В. Вучетич was the high nobility to impersonate the liberating mission of the Soviet people during the Second World War. The key figure is a bronze sculpture composition "Warrior-Liberator" (installed May 8, 1949) in Berlin-Treptow, Germany.
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Monument in honor of the 850th anniversary of the city of Vladimir (fragment). Opened October 30, 1969. Sculptor А.Б. Рябичев
Monument in honor of the 850th anniversary of the city of Vladimir (fragment). Opened October 30, 1969. Sculptor А.Б. Рябичев
Monument in honor of the 850th anniversary of the city of Vladimir (fragment). Opened October 30, 1969. Sculptor А.Б. Рябичев
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Sculptors Агибалов Василий Иванович, Мухин Виктор Иванович, Федченко Василий Харлампиевич
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Within the Anatomy 4 Sculptors project, I did research on socialist realism sculpture to determine the most useful ways on shaping and simplifying the forms of human figure. Soviet sculptors where good in simplifying and rationalizing the human form. This knowledge will be useful for designing the books block-out features.
Just for a record, Socialist Realism was the officially sanctioned style of art that dominated Soviet painting for 50 years from the early 1930s. The style and content was laid down by the state with the purpose of furthering the goals of socialism and communism. The result was a huge body of work by thousands of artists, the majority of which is stultifyingly boring and which has been mocked in the West ever since as “Girl meets tractor”. However, among all this art there were some artists who, whilst working loosely within the structures of Socialist Realism, managed to create work of interest and originality.
If yo want to learn more about socialistic realism, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism
Lenin
Lenin and soldier
Lenin and soldier
Lenin and pioneer
Grutas Park Lithuania. Open In 2001, this park near the southern Belarus border.
Grutas Park Lithuania. Open In 2001, this park near the southern Belarus border.
Sculptor: Е. В. Вучетич
1957.
Memento Park (Szobor Park), Budapest Hungary
sculptors В. В. Лишевым и В. И. Яковлевым
Monument for Н.Г.Чернышевский 1947
sculptors В. В. Лишевым и В. И. Яковлевым
Monument for Н.Г.Чернышевский
1947
Peoples Friendship Arch, Moscow
Sculpture of Емельян Пугачев by Саранск
Womens group at the entrance to the stadium at Alma-Ati, Kazahstan
1958
Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during WW2
Алёша, Мурманск, Russia
1974
И. Д. Шадр. «Булыжник — оружие пролетариата». 1927
Ivan Shadr. "Cobblestone - weapon of the proletariat." 1927
Memorial - The participants of the January Uprising of 1918
Sculptors В.П.Винайкин, В.В.Климов
1967
Monument for Котовскому
1954
Monument for Котовскому
1954
Sculptors Н.С.Любимов,А.Г.Постол, В.А.Фёдоров
Granite complex consists of six monumental figures, representing the nationalities of six soldiers who fought in the 28 Panfilov.
Location: Дубосеково
1975
Миру Мир из Витебска, Russia
The most popular Soviet Monument made by Vera Mukhina in 1937 for Worlds Fair in Paris, and used by film studio Mosfilm
25 meters high
300 feet
"Glory to the Soviet people!" by Е. В. Вучетич
Multifaceted high relief (area of 90 square meters. Meters, depth 62 cm), are in the main pavilion of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy.
Monument С.М.Кирову in Leningrad. Bronze and granite.
Sculptor Н. В. Томский
1935 - 1938
Monument С.М.Кирову in Leningrad. Bronze and granite.
Sculptor Н. В. Томский
1935 - 1938
Павлик Морозов
Sculptor Сажин Петр Алексеевич
1954
Monument А.С. Пушкину (Киев)
Sculptor - А. А. Ковалев
1962
Monument А.С. Пушкину (Киев)
Sculptor - А. А. Ковалев
1962
Monument В.И. Ленину on territory of factory "Меридиан" (Киев), Ukrain
Monument to soldiers-liberators (mass grave)
Monument military graduates of special schools (Kiev) Ukrain
Sculptor Н. Д. Марченко
1984
Monument military graduates of special schools (Kiev) Ukrain
Sculptor Н. Д. Марченко
1984
Monument for Максиму Рыльскому
Monument for mothers
Пружанах. Belorussia
Monument to the founders of Kiev
1982
Victory monument.
Пенза, Russia
Monument «Первопоселенцу»
Sculptor В.Г. Козенюк
1980
Пенза
Memorial to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad ensemble on Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd
Sculptor: Е. В. Вучетич
1958-1967
Portrait of Брежнева
Sculptor Бичуков А.А.
1981
Sculptor С. Д. Меркуров
Death of leader
1927
Sculptor А. Г. Дема
1986
Sculptor С. Я. Ковнер
1957
"Девушка на буме"
Sculptor Е.А. Янсон-Манизер
Скульптура изображает мальчика с рыболовной сетью и рыбой
Sculptor and location unknown
Скульптура изображает мальчика с рыболовной сетью и рыбой
Sculptor and location unknown
Скульптурная группа музея В.И. Ленина
Sculpture of teacher at city Omsk
Sculptor unknown
Sculptor Ф. Абдурахманов
Чабан
1951
Monument Фридриху Энгельсу
Sculptor И. Козловский
1976
Sculptor Цигаль В.Е.
Monument "Морякам Революции"
1980
Sculptor Цигаль В.Е.
Monument "Морякам Революции"
1980
Brezhnev and Lenin in the park Muzeon.
Astrakhan
Monument Lenynu
by Azhur Zayr Ysaakovych
1958
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