Wheel of Sound  |  Wheel of Sound MINI

Wheel of Sound Brief Portrait

Wheel of Sound MINI Brief Portrait

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Learning tool for attentive and precise listening

Wheel of Sound is a learning program for the development of listening skills. Its focus lies on the distinction of non-verbal sounds.

Wheel of Sound stimulates abilities and skills essential for everyday life as well as educational learning. Precise listening and the distinction of sounds are trained in a closely targeted way. Simultaneously, it requires a high degree of attention, auditory memory and concentration.

Wheel of Sound's five sound topics cover various areas for listening: Birds, technology, melody, rhythm and everyday life. Every topic includes twenty exercises with continuously increasing complexity.

One exercise includes three tasks. Initially, learners listen to one up to three sounds per tasks and will have to memorize them well. The sounds are then played back in sequence with a maximum of three additional sounds and have to be recognized by the learners.

The more sounds to be identified, the higher the demand on the memory, attention and concentration. Increasing similarity of the sounds challenges more precise listening and the ability to distinguish.

At the end of each exercise the performance is evaluated. These ratings will then be listed in the exercise overview. This overview and landing page serves as a training log, that continuously captures the individual working progress and success of the learners.

The training log is the landing page of Wheel of Sound where learners select their sound theme, start exercises and continuously receive an overview of their individual working progress and success.

If just over half of the exercises are solved well or even perfect, the bonus rider will be unlocked. It includes twenty additional exercises on different topics with a constant high level of difficulty.

The sound library contains all sounds of the learning program, sorted by sound category, ready for listening and gives learners the opportunity to rummage in sounds and puzzle over what they hear.

Fields of Wheel of Sound: stimulation of listening skills in language, musical and instrumental education as well as at home.

  Wheel of Sound MINI is the addition to Wheel of Sound for early childhood and preschool education. It promotes precise listening completely nonverbal and in a playful way. In contrast to Wheel of Sound, all the sounds of Wheel of Sound MINI are provided with pictures. Images are revealed as soon as a sound is detected. That makes practicing fun for kids.

Wheel of Sound MINI stimulates abilities and skills essential for everyday life and learning. Precise listening and the distinction of sounds are trained in a closely targeted way. Simultaneously, it requires a high degree of attention, auditory memory and concentration.

Wheel of Sound MINI’s four sound topics cover various areas for listening: Animals, technology, music and everyday life. Every topic includes twelve exercises with continuously increasing complexity.

The sound library presents all the sounds sorted by sound category. The children can either rummage in the sounds, reveal the images or solve a small sound puzzle.

Fields of Wheel of Sound MINI: Promotion of listening skills in early childhood, preschool, and special education, in music lessons and at home.

The team behind Wheel of Sound
edufix
René Fehr-Biscioni
Harriet Bünzli-Seiler

The development work is professionally supported by the Center for Orality Studies – University of Teacher Education Zug (PH Zug). A beta version of Wheel of Sound has been successfully tested in autumn 2015 by several middle school classes at PH Zug.

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