This past week has been an unpleasant one. I was taken down by the flu and set back nearly over a week. I finally got the makey kit at a local Toy’s R Us. I was really challenged by what sort of project I could pursue using Makey Makey. I wanted initially to do something musical. However, I could not find an application for music in a game that would be useful in a classroom in a way that it had not already been used.
I thought hard about it for a while and reminded myself that I am a religion teacher at a Catholic School. What do we do in religion? We pray. I came up with an interface that could help students pray the rosary. From there the project really was not terribly challenging, so I decided to construct two scripts. Seeing how reciting the rosary in English is not that challenging for most students, I created one in English and one in Spanish. So that older students who are practicing Spanish could use the interface to practice through prayer.
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Julian A. Elorduy, MET, MA 