Computer Bingo
Everyone loves a game of bingo…This is a slight twist on a classic, computer jargon that we’ve covered during the beginners course..Download the playing card and words to have a go yourself
Try something new
FLIXTIME (http://flixtime.com/)
If you want to create compelling displays of all your treasured digital photos to share with your family and friends, point your browser at Flixtime. This web app lets you make impressive animated slide shows including pictures and video in three simple steps.
You can create a 60 second film for free, with the software doing all the complicated and artistic stuff for you.
Transitions are applied to the beat of your choice of music and you can add video and captions without any drama.The processing and rendering works nice and fast and the end result is really professional. Once the slideshow is rendered you can even add a voice track so your viewers know exactly what is going on.This is a brilliant way to share those forgotten digital photographs gathering dust on your hard drive.
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PAINTINGS I LOVE (http://www.paintingsilove.com/)
If you would rather enjoy a different kind of picture, take a gander at Paintings I Love.
This site houses a community for online artists to post their work and get friendly feedback from other users of the site.
You do not have to be an artist to enjoy these pages – they value the feedback of art lovers just as much as the artists who contribute. All the submissions are rated by the site’s community, so you can easily find your way to the most stunning pictures in the galleries.
I was blown away by some of the quality of this work. If you feel inspired by what you see, there are open workshops you can take part in to brush up your artistic skills, and the Q&A section allows people to ask specific questions about certain techniques to improve their work.
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PAPA SANGRE (http://www.papasangre.com/)
Something a bit different now – an iPhone game you can play with your eyes closed. Papa Sangre is an audio adventure where you have to move around a virtual environment, reacting and interacting with what you hear.
It is a pretty spooky game and you have to concentrate on the ambient sounds if you do not want to come a cropper.
The monsters lurking in the darkness often react to the sounds you make – it is surprisingly absorbing when you do not have any visual stimuli to distract you.
The game, due for release in September, is not free, but it is definitely worth the small price for download if you want to experience this totally new type of game. Versions for the iPad and Android handsets will be released next year.
Beach Trip
Beach Trip 2010 – Thursday 20th May 4pm – 8pm.
We set off for Fraisethorpe beach at 4:15pm, 3 members of staff, 11 children aged 8 to 15 and one of the parents in a minibus. On the half hour journey the children played games with each other; Eye spy, looking out for strange landmarks and animals and “How long have we got left?” (Just to bug the driver).
Upon seeing the coastline before getting to our destination the children started getting excited and restless a few of them looked awestruck and you could tell on their faces that they were excited to nearly be there.
We parked up on the cliff top and handed out the pack lunches to the children; this was followed be a mad dash to the beach. Once on the sand most of the children ran straight for the sea which was a fair distance away; a good 100 meters. One of the staff ran after them to go splash about in the sea and you could hear screams of laughter from them from the opposite side of the beach.
During the 2 and a half hours on the beach the children and staff enjoyed various games of Tag, Frisbee, Passing the ball, Football, Playing in the sea, Rock climbing, Building sand castles and burying each other under the sand.
At the end of the evening we all collected our rubbish to be thrown away and made our way back up the cliff towards the minibus. The children were wet and covered with sand sat in the van. We had a surprise in store as we had decided to take the children to the main part of Bridlington to buy ice cream and use the amusements.
When we arrived at Brid the youths get excited again despite being worn out from playing on the beach. Everyone had different types of ice cream from the amusements, Mint Choc, Raspberry, and Vanilla and so on… Some of the children went to play on the UFO catchers \ crane games and quite a lot of soft toys were won (£1 infinite play till you win).
After about 30min in Bridlington eating our ice creams we realized we were running a bit behind schedule so we got the children back onto the minibus. We called the parents to tell them we were going to be 30min late.
When we got back into Hull the parents were waiting outside of Link Up and the children’s faces lit up again. As they all got off the mini bus they thanked the staff and ran to their parents and kept shouting back to us, “When are we going again?” We smiled back and said nothing.
We have decided to do this on a regular basis during the warmer part of the year, as it has touched the youths and given a few of them a new experience that they will become a treasured memory to them.
Web Reviews
- Fotopedia
This site aims to replicate the reference website Wikipedia, but in pictures – and it has over 14,000 entries already.
You will need to download the Fotopedia client to add pictures to the site from your hard drive or a variety of storage sites like Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook.
Digital World
This website has a virtual museum of cultural treasures such as manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.
It can be viewed in a variety of languages including Russian, Arabic and Chinese – click on the thumbnails to find details about each piece, videos and articles.
EMYTV
EMYTV
This global television portal allows you to tune in to certain channels from around the world and watch TV through your web browser.
You can access the content by genre, or look up programmes from a particular region and country.
I Will Knot
I Will Knot
WILL KNOT
Learn how to tie a variety of popular and useful knots in the categories of stopper knots, hitches, loops and bends.
Click on thumbnails for the instruction pages, where you can watch a video clip with instructions broken down into step by step stages.
Future Me
Future Me
Like the website itself the concept is brilliantly simple – you just write a letter to yourself, add your email address and set a date for delivery and futureme.org will take care of the rest.
Don’t forget to make the mail private if you don’t want the world to read it – and talking of which, this is a really intriguing way to spend a few minutes.
Full Text Archive
Full Text Archive
Full Text Archive
This site is an archive of books, poems and plays by authors ranging from Anne Bronte to Jules Verne.
Use the search box provided to hunt out a particular work or author, or you can browse the titles alphabetically in a rather clunky fashion.
Skip to the bottom of the homepage if you want to explore the popular files.
Story Bird
This site enables children to collaborate on building a simple picture story book online.
There is a huge library of art to browse through until you find a set of pictures that inspire you.
Once you have picked images, drop them one by one onto the page. All the resizing and positioning of text is done automatically.
Earth Tv
Earth Tv
Earth TV transmits streaming video feeds from 70 cameras across five continents, creating a window for visitors to travel the width and breadth of the world from the comfort of their own homes.
The quality of these feeds is exceptional, and unlike the usual fixed camera viewpoint, Earth TV can motion control each camera to capture the very best of the action.
Year Book Yourself
Year Book Yourself
Yearbook Yourself
See yourself in glorious retro fashions dating back to 1950. Finding the perfect image to use can be tricky – you may get best results from using the option to take a picture with your webcam if you have one installed.
Your face should be dead straight on to the camera, and have no hair or other obstruction across your face. Once you have an image inserted, tweak the size and position.
Calorie Connect
The idea is simple – just type the name of the food stuff you are wondering about into the box provided and a list of options will appear below.
Edies Year book yourself 
Cynthia's Yearbook yourself
