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Welcome to Animega-is (and HB Meloton musik & röst)!
Animega–interactive sentences
an app for creative and playful language learning
The Animega-is app was developed by Topic DOS AB in versions for iOS, Windows and Android tablets. Animega-is_introduction video
The iPad version has been marketed by Topic DOS AB since April 2022 but is now managed by HB Meloton, and made available for a minimal price to cover distribution costs for the app.
Full and Lite versions are available for iPads
New 2024!! Animega-is now also for Windows on Microsoft Store
Animega-is has been created to stimulate the development of language and communication in learners beginning to explore the mysteries of the written language. What do the letters represent? How can they represent words, sentences and events?
The language content of the program is meant to be explored by the learner with help from – and in interaction with – a teacher or parent. The language material and the appended animations do not only offer motivational literacy training but also give occasion for conversations where the learner can express his or her imagination and thoughts.
Animega-is is based on an earlier computer program, Omega-is, that in several studies have been shown to have had positive effects on children’s language development.
Animega-is consists of a total of 57 tasks (exercises) distributed over six levels. The exercises cover levels from single words, 2, 3, and 4 words, and up to longer multi-word sentences, and can produce close to 5000 possible sentences with corresponding animations or video clips.
Animega-is
does
not transfer any data about users over the internet.
User
results are only stored
locally
on the unit on which the app is used.
For more details, please
visit our Privacy
Policy page!
The general idea of Animega-is is that users either
a) create sentences from words which generate corresponding animations or video clips (Create mode), or
b) are presented with animations or video clips and try to match them by producing corresponding sentences (Test mode)
More
details are
found in the
Animega-is user manuals:
Animega-is
Swedish Usermanual
Animega-is
English Usermanual
Please also take a look at this introduction video!
Animega-is has recently been tested as part of a major research project in Sweden called KomLoss / DiLL (Digital media supporting Literacy Learning in children with communicative and cognitive disabilities) run by a team of people at DART (at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg), and the universities of Göteborg (Gothenburg) and Linköping. Results were presented (in Swedish) at the KomLoss slutkonferens.
Funding support for the development of Animega-is has been received from the Swedish “National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools” - SPSM
The earlier Omega-is (Omega - interactive sentences) desktop software for educational and interactive language play has been substantially updated and complemented. It contains editors for producing new educational and media material for the exercises and tasks of Animega-is (and Omega-is).
Omega-is is maintained and distributed as free and open-source software. The source is maintained at https://github.com/data50p/omega2-is.
For more information about Animega-is and Omega-is, you are welcome to contact:
Mikael Heimann at mikael.heimann-at-gmail.com
Mats Lundälv at m.lundalv-at-gmail.com
(where ”-at-” = ”@”)
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