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Colingo is developing an activity for Sugar called ColingoXO. ColingoXO will provide a framework for constructivist language-learning by letting children construct video narratives in English using short video clips. Children will be able to use Colingo-produced public domain pre-recorded video clips or record new clips using the XO camera / microphone. Essentially it is an integrated video recorder and extremely simple video editor. |
Colingo is developing an activity for Sugar called ColingoXO. ColingoXO will provide a framework for <a href=" http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructivism">constructivist</a> language-learning by letting children construct video narratives in English using short video clips. Children will be able to use Colingo-produced public domain pre-recorded video clips or record new clips using the XO camera / microphone. Essentially it is an integrated video recorder and extremely simple video editor. |
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ColingoXO will also provide a framework for sharing video narratives, both between XO machines and online through colingo.org and other websites. |
ColingoXO will also provide a framework for sharing video narratives, both between XO machines and online through colingo.org and other websites. |
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== Creating videos == |
== Creating videos == |
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Revision as of 03:52, 23 July 2007
Colingo
Colingo is a new non-profit language learning organization providing free educational videos to help XO users learn English.
The first batch of videos, aimed at helping Spanish-speakers learn English, is called 1-2-3 inglés.
ColingoXO
Colingo is developing an activity for Sugar called ColingoXO. ColingoXO will provide a framework for <a href=" http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructivism">constructivist</a> language-learning by letting children construct video narratives in English using short video clips. Children will be able to use Colingo-produced public domain pre-recorded video clips or record new clips using the XO camera / microphone. Essentially it is an integrated video recorder and extremely simple video editor.
ColingoXO will also provide a framework for sharing video narratives, both between XO machines and online through colingo.org and other websites.
Creating videos
Help is needed to create a full library of video clips. (more coming soon...)