The Kid Should See This: cool web-stuff for kids

The Kid Should See This: a collection of kid-friendly, kid-exciting Internet stuff, with loads of science, nature, music and fun. Co-curated by a parent and a three-year old. (via Kottke)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Snarf Snarf

I like this idea! I just recently started a tumblr (is that what you call it? a tumble-log?) with short films, animations and other cinematic experiences from the web ( for the curious here is a link : minicinema.tumblr.com ) and just this morning I decided to make one more focusing on kid friendly movies.

I really wish there was a way to dub youtube/vimeo videos though, because there is so much good stuff out there, but since I am danish and my kids are too, they can’t understand most of what is out there since its in english. It is such a shame, so will somebody please invent a way to do dubs/voiceovers on online videos so I could make my own translations/voiceovers of some of those great educational and entertaining videos floating about the interwebs?
- charles reid
  
  You can find browser plugins (for Firefox) that will allow you to download YouTube videos, then you could use video editing software (visit http://www.osalt.com/ for a good list of open source alternatives) to dub the videos.
  - Snarf Snarf
    
    Yeah downloading and editing is a possibility, but it sort of loses the whole point of sharing it all on the web. That is basically the same as what I do already when I translate videos for my kids while we watch them, but those kids’ endurance surpasses my patience by quite a lot in the long run.
    
    I would really like a way to dub videos and share it online in a simple way. Like that project with crowdsourced subtitles on videos featurede previously on Boing Boing : http://boingboing.net/2010/12/09/universal-subtitles.html
    
    Unfortunately I am not smart enough to build such a feature myself.
    - taj1f
      
      Don’t knock your own smarts, Snarf! Old dawgs can learn new tricks.
      - Snarf Snarf
        
        Dammit … I almost feel tempted to go like this :
    - http://pineappledonut.org Lachlan Musicman
      
      I’ve built something similar for Critical Commons at USC, using audio mp3s as commentary on videos with regular audio muted, using plumi/plone and a bunch of other tech. I’m sure they would let you use their software, as it’s based on FLOSS…
charles reid

kind of like an exploratorium for the web… fun for 3 year old kids and 3 year old adults
xtalman

This get a couple of thumbs up from my kids (4 and 9) and me.
Mister44

Some neat stuff on there – great for home schooling. Thanks.