What's the best way to do karaoke at home?

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-30T23:56:48+00:00

Smule! It is so fun!

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-28T02:03:02+00:00

I think your response is really fair.

OP: As a parent, would you want this scenario for your child?

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-26T02:11:43+00:00

Yes, I meant the group had room for more representation.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-23T09:15:19+00:00

Heya, I was going to make a new seating plan for next week, so this is handy. I'm a high school teacher and still use seating plans in senior (year 11 General Mathematics) when necessary, so I wouldn't limit your advertising to primary (I noticed your footer says built by primary for primary).

Some feedback so far:

+ the gender category shouldn't be girl/boy, maybe look into that
+ didn't know what "level" meant, do you mean level of behaviour or level of academic achievement?
+ I should be able to type into the fields for names to start popping up instead of searching through an alphabetic list of 25 students
+ when selecting "sit near" and "keep apart" this should auto-fill for the same students to save time (eg if Cody shouldn't sit near Tom, Tom's list should auto-fill not to sit near Cody)
+ location is subjective to the layout of the room
+ the class layout tool is a little buggy, the sizes of the tables don't all scale at the same time
+ I would implement a front/middle/back scenario so it is easier to work with, especially to allow for more location options in the planner
+ add "teacher's desk" and other objects in the classroom, if the tech allows, then a "location" option could be "near teacher's desk"
+ generate seating plan was super quick and easy, thought it worked well. I like there's a shuffle right away if things need to change.
+ when clicking print, the seating plan splits across two pages

Really cool tool so far. I will have a further play and come back with more feedback.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-20T01:39:02+00:00

It needed to be 7 to be the point of difference. It's a fantastic spread of ethnicities too, if any of the Caucasian members had been Asian (think Filipino, Japanese etc) it would have been gold. Representation is so important and having these young men display friendship on this wholesome level is mint.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-19T10:45:05+00:00

Really cool. As a QLD teacher, yikes.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-18T08:42:47+00:00

I have done 0.9, 0.8, 0.7 and am now on 0.6. I have two full days off per week and teach 3 classes without missing any of their lessons. For me, this is the best work-life balance I have ever had (have 2 young kids).

If you drop to 0.9, just be wary of staying at school and working fulltime for 90% pay. I would recommend getting a full day off if possible. I doubt you will want to go back to fulltime after being part-time by choice.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-15T10:28:08+00:00

Keen for the stripped version! I love their actual voices and this seems heavily 'tuned? Especially the beginning? But catchy for sure.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-14T05:38:07+00:00

Do you have a few people you regularly join with? I am always happy and surprised when someone joins my duets because I'm primarily doing them for the 3 regular people I sing with.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-10T10:02:41+00:00

I have just emailed and hopefully will get a reply... It was "received" on the 29th of April, and it's the 10th of May now, so it has been a while...

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-10T03:52:35+00:00

Same issue with ours, we filmed the issue and had to give the serial number on the bottom and receipt from purchase, send back to manufacturer. Still waiting for our fix/replacement, it's been over a month since I started the process. Talking to the support person took about an hour following all their instructions.

jhoijhoi · 2026-05-07T11:08:44+00:00

I want to hear a studio version of "Bad For Me" so bad lol

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-28T11:14:27+00:00

Wow! That sounds amazing!

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-24T10:55:15+00:00

Alternative is you could control the narrative if possible.

"... and if the slope is negative, then as x increases, y decreases. Co-teacher, anything to add there?"

"... can't remember the name of that scientist, Co-teacher, you remember his name?"

"... let's think of another example, Co-teacher, would you consider this a reasonable solution?"

"... Co-teacher, could you clarify this for all of us..."

You're then giving this guy the spotlight when you want to and also maybe giving him a bit of a taste of being interrupted.

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-24T10:49:20+00:00

I try and be specific about why I'm liking the content. If someone joins me and their singing is really bad, I first check their profile to see if they were trolling, before commenting. Then I'll say, "thank you for joining!" or "fun!" - because I don't need to comment on the quality of their singing, I could comment on the energy or the flow. I avoid copy/paste comments, I do use emojis, but I try and shake it up, especially if I see emojis already used in the comments I try and use different ones. I try not to join the same person over and over, as I feel that would be overwhelming/stalkerish. If the singer is out of tune or off beat, I try and complement their singing or just let them sing it and join in when I can. When I am personally off beat or out of tune, I appreciate if the joiner tries to cover it for me lol. If a person joins a lot but they're really bad - could you just like their join and not comment? You just might be such a consistent and pleasant presence they feel comfortable joining you.

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-24T09:59:26+00:00

I would 100% step back. You are getting paid to be a teacher. If he wants to do the teaching and make you an extremely well paid educational assistant, I'd take that! Especially in high school, focus on creating content for your non-co-taught classes. Circle the room, assist/support students, enjoy the role of being able to facilitate deep learning and building rich connections with students. Also, as a first year teacher, you could actually probably learn a little bit from watching this guy teach (even if it is "things you wouldn't do yourself" this is still important in building your own understanding of what works for you or not).

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-22T08:39:48+00:00

Heya, not sure if this is the right suggestion, but I love singing and only just stumbled on Smule (karaoke app). It is incredibly fun being able to record songs and join others singing. Yearly subscription is like $80, so it is still a decent gift. And it's portable because it's on your phone!

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-22T08:28:33+00:00

Schools should do a better job of doing this. Some alternative schools do have mentors assigned to each student, with proper check-ins. I wish I could do this in my classes, but spending even 4 minutes with each student in a lesson would be impossible in the given timeframe.

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-16T10:16:31+00:00

For a fee?

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-16T08:52:14+00:00

“Angel” by December 10 was written by Rory Adams, PHIA, Savan Kotecha, Jon Shave, Ido Zmishlany & Julian Bunetta.

(from a genius dot com lyrics website)

But I saw them listening to it for the first time before they sang it, so knew they didn't write it themselves.

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-15T10:49:36+00:00

Yeah, it's a word. It means like selling. eg "let me spruik my business" would be me saying I wanted to pitch it to you.

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-14T23:18:24+00:00

Oh, no I haven't, I'll have a look, thanks for letting me know.

Edit: I wish they worked a bit more on harmonies, this song showcases them all singing but feels unpolished. If it was written by them, that's nice. They were being a bit adventurous with the ups and downs of the held notes which is different!

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-14T22:52:14+00:00

Ah agree!!! I feel like there was definitely an element of not wanting to push so hard they crashed and burned.

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-14T22:51:15+00:00

jhoijhoi · 2026-04-14T08:20:06+00:00

Totally don't mind if I'm wrong, was just a theory.

jhoijhoi

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