Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Chupacabra Last week we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and get an idea of the challenges and surprises they found as they worked with the SDK. Team Chupacabra consists of Rick Barraza, Adam Kinney, and Dennis Delimarsky. The project leverages Kinect on one
21M.380 Music and Technology: Algorithmic and Generative Music (MIT)
Includes audio/video content: AV special element audio. This course examines the history, techniques, and aesthetics of mechanical and computer-aided approaches to algorithmic music composition and generative music systems. Through creative hands-on projects, readings, listening assignments, and lectures, students will explore a variety of historical and contemporary approaches. Diverse tools and systems will be employed, including applications in Python, MIDI, Csound, SuperCollider, and Pure Da
Protests amid peace talks in Syria
June 20 - Protests gather pace across Syria as demonstrators reject reform plans by President Bashar al-Assad. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
The Teenage Brain
Why do teenagers act the way they do? This video segment from FRONTLINE: Inside the Teenage Brain explores the work scientists are doing to explain some of the mysteries of teenage behavior.
The Ten Commandments This video sings the Ten Commandments. The words are printed on the screen and sung. The song is sung twice so students can sing the second time through. There are no pictures in this video. Poor to average quality video, song is catchy and it is nice to have the words on the screen, but could use pictures.
Lugosi teaches math - Positive series1
Béla Lugosi teaches advanced mathematical concepts of monotonic non-decreasing sequences in this video. The series was an attempt to show undergraduate students that math is not scary. Lugosi's hidden love for mathematics is illuminated by his animated teaching style in this video. Any lover of advanced mathematics will enjoy learning from and listening to Lugosi.
Lugosi teaches math - Positive series2
Béla Lugosi teaches advanced mathematical concepts in this video. This video shows a variety of tests to prove positive series. He begins with what is called a comparison test and formulates proofs. Lugosi's hidden love for mathematics is illuminated by his animated teaching style. This video is geared to older, advanced mathematics learners.
Air Masses and Fronts - by StudyJams
The Earth has four major air masses, two cold ones and two warm ones. When those air masses run into each other, the place where they meet is called a front. Fronts are resposible for all kinds of weather like snow and storms. Learn more about air masses and fronts with this computer animation from StudyJams. A short, self-checking quiz is also included with this link.
Artists Famous Quotes
This is an artistically creative video showcasing different kinds of art along with quotes by well known artists. Small cameos of the artist's work are shown with their quotes. (2:30)
How to Make a Book for Younger Children
A two minute video on how younger children can write, draw, and decorate a homemade book. Very easy to follow.
Introduction to Multiplication Part 2
This video starts where part 1 left off. They start with using subtraction to find the product of two numbers. For example, 7 x 8 = ?, I know 7 x 10 = 70, then I subtract 14 to get 56, need to look at the pattern that is occuring. Review what multiplication means, repeated addition. Then they move on to two digit numbers mulitplied by a two digit number, using a number line. They do this with a number of different problems. Video is good quality and good for all students as review or initial lea
Multiplication: Commutative and Associative Properties
n this video, learn the definition of commutative and associative properties of multiplication. A math instructor shows how to solve multiplication problems using these properties.
LL Cool J Goes on an Addition Expedition With Elmo
In this Sesame Street clip, LL Cool J and Elmo sing the Addition Expedition song. Elmo learns how to "add 'em up."(2:09)
Punctuation Review 1
This clips gives a review of punctuation rules. The narrator quickly and briefly goes over rules for periods, apostrophes, question marks and hyphens.
Fundy Tides - Scotts Bay Timelapse
Ever wonder what it was like living near the highest tides in the world - reaching a rise of up to 50 feet? This time lapse shot at Scots Bay, NS, in the Bay of Fundy shows twelve hours of tide in only 120 seconds. People have often found themselves facing peril when they did not keep an eye on the clock while beach combing. When the tide is rolling in at an average rate of 8 feet of depth per hour it can be a chore just staying ahead of it.
The Cathode Ray Tube
(CRT) is an instrument that showed that there was an invisible force, electrons, that exist in our world and this 2:26 minute video shows how and who discovered it and how it could be used.
How to Make a Water Rocket
A step-by-step guide that shows how to make a water rocket. They can be made in about ten minutes, but only under close supervision. A good way to explain action-reaction (03:24).
What is Web 3.0?
This video explains the difference between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. In Web 2.0 users produce the content. Intelligent and omnipresent 3.0 is a continuation of present techniques. There is reference to some websites and how they have been using smart systems that now are known as web 3.0 (3:57)
RSS in Plain English
This is a short explanation of RSS and how it helps you save time reading the web. There is reference to Google readers a list of other readers. There is an explanation on how to subscribe to news readers. (3:44)
Learn How to Count in Sign Language for Small Children
This Signing Time Videos is made for babies and toddlers to learn sign language. My toddler learned how to sign through these videos way before he could talk which made it possible for him to communicate rather then throw tantrums. In this video you learn how to count through these hand signs. Run time 0:31.
