Activities/AEIOU

About AEIOU

AEIOU is an activity for introducing the Spanish vowels. It displays letters and images and associated sound files, such as 'A as in ave'. There are four modes:

click on the letter to hear its name
click on the picture to hear the name of the first letter in the word represented by the picture
hear a letter name, then click on the corresponding letter
hear a letter name, then click on the corresponding picture

Where to get AEIOU

TheAEIOU activity is available for download from the Sugar Activity Library: AEIOU

The source code is available on the Sugar Labs Gitorious server.

Using AEIOU

letter game
picture game

Toolbars

Activity toolbar: change the activity name; add notes to the Sugar Journal
Letter mode: listen to letter names
Picture mode: listen to letter names associated with pictures
Find the letter 1: hear a letter spoken and then find it
Find the letter 2: hear a word spoken and then find the first letter
Stop button: exit the activity

Learning with AEIOU

While far from contructionist, this activity does provide a mechanism for learning the alphabet.

Modifying AEIOU

As of Version 1, only a Spanish version is included. In order to add other languages, we need:

audio recordings of the letter names
audio recordings of the picture names
perhaps additional pictures, in order ensure there is a picture for each letter of the alphabet

There is a language-specific database file maintained in ./lessons/??/alphabet.csv where ?? is the 2-digit language code. The format of the CSV file is:

letter	word	color (#RRGGBB)	image file	sound file (image)	sound file (letter)
R	(r)atón	#F08020	raton.png	raton.ogg	r.ogg

Extending AEIOU

It would, of course, be fun to let the learner add their own pictures and sound recordings.

Where to report problems

You are welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the Talk:Activities/AEIOU page.

Credits

AEIOU was written and is maintained by User:Walter. He was inspired in part by the work of Maria Perez, Fundación Zamora Terán