Re: A lovely comment on my blog from David Sonnenschein, with someuseful resources

[Andrew @ StellaTeach.Me]

Hey Guys,

Our sound-based memory game is in beta; 

http://58.250.87.112/flash/CardGame/CardGame.html

It requires you to speak the word in order to move forward in the game.  Any thoughts or suggestions are most welcome! 

Cheers,

Andrew

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From:  "Emma Quayle"<e.qu...@hotmail.com>;

Date:  Sat, Jul 28, 2012 03:16 AM

To:  "teaching-listening"<teaching-...@googlegroups.com>;

Subject:  Re: A lovely comment on my blog from David Sonnenschein, with someuseful resources

David, that game is FANTASTIC!
Not only is is it engaging but also extremely funny.
It's amazing how much the sound adds to your ability to remember where the corresponding animals. I found that it made a slight difference having some sort of image, although it didn't matter whether it was a picture of the animal or of a sound wave. And although i was slightly faster when there was an image, i actually had less card flips when there wasn't a recognisable animal image. I did it from 4 - 1 and when the pictures started appearing i found that i became distracted and ended up doing more random and faster flipping than when it was just the sound.
I am developing some listening workshops to host in Edinburgh schools - you can see my blog for this at www.listeninglearning.wordpress.com I will post a link to your game and will also suggest it as a teaching material in the Paradykes project (see blog)
Cheers,
Emma

On Thursday, January 5, 2012 12:50:24 PM UTC, Julian Treasure wrote:

David Sonnenschein has left a new comment on your post "Teaching
listening in schools":

Listening positions exercise is wonderful, seems that children and
adults can learn so much about each other with this. I also loved the
TED talk so much. Your call to arms (or ears) at the end rings
strongly for me, and I will certainly refer others to this powerful,
clear presentation.

I've been developing sound games for quite a while with this exact
intention of enhancing people's listening, specifically children. One
game, Animal Sounds Memory Game, is available here:
http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/
I have a whole series proposed for educational use, and it would be
great to collaborate with you and other educators with this interest.

I also published an article on a new listening model called "Sound
Spheres" in The New Soundtrack, Edinburgh U. Press, (also in the
upcoming 2nd edition of my book "Sound Design") that has several
examples on how students can use this as an exercise to explore their
listening awareness. I'd love to hear feedback from educators on this.
It can be read on my site here:
http://sounddesignforpros.com/davids-interviews/sound-spheres-a-psychoacoustic-model/

All the best and keep up the good fight for good sound.



Posted by David Sonnenschein to Sound Business at 28 September 2011
04:42