Nassau BOCESDepartment of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology

Certainly any type of media class would benefit from listening to old radio broadcasts from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.  Here is a site that has collected, organized and made available some of the best old time radio shows of the time.

The crackling sound, the sometimes over dramatic acting, mid range audio tone, dialect of the time, creative sound effects; all of these things deliver that nostalgia feeling which makes you feel part of that time.

In an age of the internet, TV, instant means of entertainment and the constand bombardment of media, perhaps all kids should have an opportunity still to sit down and listen to an episode of “The Shadow!”

You can find the Old World Radio Archive here: http://www.oldradioworld.com/

We hear about how different they are from us all the time.  But just how different are we?  Perhaps this brief quiz will give us “some” ideas.  The data presented following the quiz is interesting as well.

From Pew:  “Take our 14 item quiz and we’ll tell you how “Millennial” you are, on a scale from 0 to 100, by comparing your answers with those of respondents to a scientific nationwide survey. You can also find out how you stack up against others your age.”

Take the quiz here: http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz/

Google Transliteration offers an option for converting Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language. Note that this is not the same as translation — it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. For example, typing “hamesha” transliterates into Hindi as:  and typing “salaam” transliterates into Persian as: 

Very interesting tool here: http://www.google.com/transliterate