I'm not young enough to be a MySpace, Facebook, YouTube junkie. I peruse them on occasion when I have reason to find a page or I'm directed to them.
But, as we all know, our students spend gads of time in these domains; on-line networking and spaces are important to them; and they want them to have as many features and the best ease of use possible.
Enter the young and innovative minds of Cheshire Academy (Cheshire, CT). Jesse Youngblood, an AP computer science student at Cheshire, turned improving YouTube video sharing into an independent study project. She received guidance from Cheshire's computer science teacher Sue Heintz and worked with a local software firm, Gridlock, LLC, to research "the distribution of video via the internet to be played back on regular televisions." Reps from Apple traveled to Cheshire to meet with the team and expressed interest in adding it to their line of mobile media devices if they could produce the product in short order.
Working on deadline, the Cheshire students had to complete and deliver a working application by summer's end 2007. Jesse wrote the Mac OS version while AP computer classmates Alex Catullo '08, Sen "Forest" Fang '09, and alum Praveen Savalgi '06 worked on the Window's version. Ms. Heintz did the testing.
The resulting application is Tooble--a device that "allows users to browse, search and easily download video from the phenomenally popular YouTube website to mobile media devices like the video iPod, iPhone and AppleTV."
Tooble received staff pick status at Apple.com and has been reviewed by KillerStartups.com.
Visit and download tooble at www.tooble.tv. You can also read the Cheshire team's reports from their MacWorld trip by visiting the school's news room or watch this video they posted on Youtube:
But, as we all know, our students spend gads of time in these domains; on-line networking and spaces are important to them; and they want them to have as many features and the best ease of use possible.
Enter the young and innovative minds of Cheshire Academy (Cheshire, CT). Jesse Youngblood, an AP computer science student at Cheshire, turned improving YouTube video sharing into an independent study project. She received guidance from Cheshire's computer science teacher Sue Heintz and worked with a local software firm, Gridlock, LLC, to research "the distribution of video via the internet to be played back on regular televisions." Reps from Apple traveled to Cheshire to meet with the team and expressed interest in adding it to their line of mobile media devices if they could produce the product in short order.
Working on deadline, the Cheshire students had to complete and deliver a working application by summer's end 2007. Jesse wrote the Mac OS version while AP computer classmates Alex Catullo '08, Sen "Forest" Fang '09, and alum Praveen Savalgi '06 worked on the Window's version. Ms. Heintz did the testing.
The resulting application is Tooble--a device that "allows users to browse, search and easily download video from the phenomenally popular YouTube website to mobile media devices like the video iPod, iPhone and AppleTV."
Tooble received staff pick status at Apple.com and has been reviewed by KillerStartups.com.
Visit and download tooble at www.tooble.tv. You can also read the Cheshire team's reports from their MacWorld trip by visiting the school's news room or watch this video they posted on Youtube:
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