"Bought this game cause I love Elite Beat Agents and Osu! (for the Nintendo DS)... They're similar in a sense, though instead of tapping the most of the circles like in EBA, you 'slide' the stylus most of the time in this game...
Still it's a LOT of fun!
(Sorry if the camera is a little shaky)
(YouTube description. About the game, see e.g. http://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews/looney-tunes-cartoon-conductor ) "
"Pigs in a Polka (1943)
The story of The Big Bad Wolf and The Three Little Pigs set to Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances.
Director: Isadore Freleng
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Playlist for Merrie Melodies Cartoons: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D462FE81164A3DD6"
English language Idiomatic expresessions explained and illistrated. Check the cartoons in the "activities" section. French and Spanish expressions also.
Thx to Larry Ferlazzo for link
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Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction is a free gallery of images hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library. The gallery contains nearly 500 drawings of people conversing, scenes in houses and buildings, and objects commonly found in houses. You'll also find drawings scenes in cities, in stores, and in nature. The visuals are all drawn cartoon style without any text or speech bubbles.
Applications for Education
If you're looking for some visual prompts to use in your language lessons, take a look at the gallery at Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction. You can search the gallery by keyword or simple browse through the collection.
"Mickey Mouse and Company: The Band Concert
"The Band Concert is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 23, 1935 by United Artists w/ a running time of 9 minutes. (...)
The Band Concert was directed by Wilfred Jackson and featured adapted music by Leigh Harline. "
From the description in http://fan.tcm.com/_Mickey-Mouse-38-Company-The-Band-Concert-1935/video/1640275/66470.html"
Hilarious and wordless except for Donald who says a few hardly understandable words: so there are no real subtitles, and the cartoon could be used for retelling activities in various languages.
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Educational Software | Teaching with Comics | Appears to offer a great deal of flexibility in creating characters. 30 day free trial but then paid accounts allowing for 40 students.