Lift off to Sonoplanet, where ‘sonification’ has turned all information and data, including images, into sound! Let CosmoBally be your guide on this distant planet, where everything and everyone is sonified.
CosmoBally on Sonoplanet is the world’s first educational game app providing students from any age the opportunity to explore sonification in exciting, interactive sound games.
‘Sonification’ is a technology to represent information and data, including images, in non-speech sound. Although Sonification is not a new technology, world-wide right now sonification is increasingly being applied in science (particularly in astronomy), technology and the arts. There’s growing awareness about the opportunities Sonification offers for accessibility, inclusiveness, and multisensory learning.
Visit the Sonoplanet website for all information about this app and sonification and multisensory projects for education and inclusion.
This app was developed by Sonokids to introduce young students who are blind or vision impaired to concepts and principles of sonification through gamified learning.
The goal is for sonification concepts to support early learning in the classroom, and to prepare students for the use of sonification in future access to science subjects and independent scientific research.
The project also aims to gain insights into the learning progressions and prerequisite skills of young students to effectively learn sonification skills. The project is supported by South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment (SPEVI Inc.).
Just like the three Ballyland Code apps do not teach a specific programming language (students develop computational thinking and understanding of essential, generic concepts and principles of computer programming which build a bridge to whatever programming language they will learn next), similarly, the new sonification app aims to build foundation skills and conceptual understanding of sonification.
For all questions please contact Sonokids via email: support@sonokids.org.