Adjectives Fun Deck vs Show Me! (Mutasd!)

This colorful educational App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 52 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card’s text) from the Adjectives Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want students to see, and have your students fill in the blank to improve their grammar, syntax, and vocabulary skills. The prompts include statements like, “Brett bought a (new) pair of pants” and “The (strong) woman lifts weights.” The Automatic Scoring option allows the students to choose from one of two answers to complete the sentence correctly. Adjectives Fun Deck® App lets you: • Use the app in portrait or landscape orientation. • Select all 52 cards or just the ones you want students to see. • Track correct and incorrect responses for an unlimited number of players. • Advance players and cards manually or automatically. • Receive feedback for incorrect and/or correct responses • Discontinue game play and continue at any time. • View results in a graph and see which questions a player missed during a session. • Print, e-mail, and share your results. This App is simple to use — each student looks at an illustration and either reads the prompt or touches the screen to listen to the prompt and answer choices. The student then responds by touching his/her answer. Move to the next card by sliding the card currently on the display screen to the side. To move to the next player, tap the bar at the top of the screen and select a name. You can also advance cards and players automatically by selecting the Auto-Advance option in the Game Options menu. You can leave a game temporarily and return to it later by selecting Pause Game from the menu. To return to the game, select Continue Game from the main menu. When you finish, view the results in a graph, and print or email your data.

The integration of deaf-mute people in our everyday life has been always a challenge for our society. The Show Me! (Mutasd!) app opens the door to anybody to easily learn to communicate with deaf-mute people. The application is intuitive and user friendly and the methodology applied for learning the sign language provides an easy and entertaining way for practicing. The main goal was and is to make this special language more popular, especially for the younger generation, so they become more open and more interested in the deaf-mute culture. The concept is simple. Two virtual hands and an intuitive, user friendly and minimalist interface greet the user. The three-dimensional animated hands do the gestures corresponding to the word which the user types into the search bar. If the app doesn’t recognize the word, the hands do the gesture for each letter of the input, one by one, based on Fingerspelling. Cheerful images appear behind the hands, which help memorizing the gestures and which are appealing and engaging to the younger audience. One of the most important elements of the learning process is practicing. One of the practice modes is focusing on better understanding. Here, earlier learned signs appear and the user is asked to type the corresponding word, with which they learn points or lose virtual lives. There is another work-in-progress version of Show Me!, which lets the user experience the app in virtual reality. The 3D hands and images in virtual reality makes the app and sign-language more appealing and easier to learn for the younger audience. This version is currently being developed for the Google Cardboard headset, which only requires a smartphone to work, which makes this a cheap way for schools and kindergartens to make them able to teach children about sign-language and the deaf-mute culture. According to WHO approximately 10% of humanity is hearing-impaired. Over 5% of the world’s population, more than 360 million people has disabling hearing loss (328 million adults and 32 million children). The numbers are just increasing because of the changing natural conditions. In Hungary, the number of hearing-impaired people is close to a million, which is 10% of the population. In 10 years, the number of deaf-mute people has increased by 15.85%. This project is a small step, but small steps can help build a bridge between hearing people and with hearing disabilities. I believe that making an impact on a person has to start in their childhood. Therefore, it’s really important to integrate this topic into the education, so children will be more acceptable and it will be natural for them to live with children with such disabilities.