Popcorn Grenade announces the upcoming release of Count Dracu and Friends for iOS. This early-learning app for children features friendly vampires, farting werewolves, and more. Players join Count Dracu and his lovable, culturally diverse, ghoulish friends on an interactive journey while learning all about opposites, like tall and short, fat and thin, and the unique characteristics that make people who they are.
Montreal, Canada – Tribal Nova, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company and developer behind the award winning PBS KIDS PLAY! online learning program, announces its latest app, i Learn With Bo: Nutrition! – now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Continue reading »
For nature lovers on a budget, Peterson Birds Pocket Edition 1.0 packs in a lot of detail for such a small price. Based on the best-selling book, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, the app features Roger Tory Peterson’s breathtakingly beautiful illustrations, along with maps, species details and songs. Information on over 800 species of North American birds is included in the app, core content that is identical to that of the app’s big brother, the award-winning Peterson Birds of North America.
Inspired and brought to life from a table-top game, the innovative “Blocks Rock!” app combines the educational, competitive and colorful qualities of the table-top game into a contemporary medium.
When the photographer left Los Angeles a few years ago for a five month expedition to Latin America, little did he know that there was no going back. In the following years, the epic adventure now nicknamed “LA2BA” would cover 42,000 miles through 15 countries, providing a vast supply of exceptional photographic opportunities and a rare chance to meet the contrasting cultures of an entire continent. Continue reading »
iLuv Drawing Vehicles for iPad is a clever app which shows kids step-by-step how to draw 20 different vehicles. Unlike most similar apps, it provides a full complement of flexible, accurate, touch-sensitive tools for young artists, including: pencils, crayons, pattern brushes, paint fills, erasers, backgrounds, stickers, undos, layering, scaling, flipping, rotating, and zooming. Kids can follow spoken directions and trace pictures on the iPad, or they can draw on paper. One of the best art education apps available for iPad, kids learn about drawing, while they learn the names of the parts of each vehicle they depict.
When the photographer left Los Angeles a few years ago for a five month expedition to Latin America, little did he know that there was no going back. In the following years, the epic adventure now nicknamed “LA2BA” would cover 42,000 miles through 15 countries, providing a vast supply of exceptional photographic opportunities and a rare chance to meet the contrasting cultures of an entire continent. Continue reading »
iLuv Drawing Vehicles for iPad is a clever app which shows kids step-by-step how to draw 20 different vehicles. Unlike most similar apps, it provides a full complement of flexible, accurate, touch-sensitive tools for young artists, including: pencils, crayons, pattern brushes, paint fills, erasers, backgrounds, stickers, undos, layering, scaling, flipping, rotating, and zooming.
The Craft of FileMaker announced they will be hosting their next Design Studio for FileMaker Developers June 4th – 6th in Oakland, California. This intensive, three day, learning experience will be lead by veteran FileMaker Developer’s Conference Speaker Don Levan, President of Vanguard Custom Software and Founder of the Craft of FileMaker.
This article on “the Journal” web site offers 12 tip for Educators about using the iPad. (The Journal‘s subtitle is Transforming Education Through Technology.) It starts off saying that there is more than 20,000 educational apps available for iOS. The tips in this article assume iOS 6 is being used. (I do wonder about calling the tips “advanced”, but they are useful for the new user.) Continue reading »
Champaign, Illinois – From geography apps to alphabet apps for early learners, Spinlight Studio’s education apps have found a loyal audience around the world – including one they never expected. During National Autism Acceptance Month, the company’s app design and game play have made them a popular choice among advocate moms like Shannon Des Roches Rosa, senior editor of the Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism. Continue reading »
April is the National Autism Awareness Month. As away to honor that month, Kindergarten.com has made their educational apps available for free. I have personally talked to a number of parents and a few software developers. Apps on the iPhone/iPad have made a big difference to the people stricken with Autism. Continue reading »
Even if it’s just a few pennies, they’re worth saving in any economy. Teaching kids to save at an early age can create positive habits that will last a lifetime. But, it can also be done in an entertaining way.
The internet revolutionised the way we live and work, but not everyone has equal connectivity. This week we focus on global internet connectivity and have expert opinion on Akamai’s State of the Internet Report, as well as the report itself. We also have the Global Information Technology Report 2012 which offers insight into life in a hyperconnected world. But is the world now too connected?
Noted author, psychic and color expert Tori Hartman has created an inspiring and unique app Color Wisdom Cards 1.2.3, which is designed to help people develop their intuition, make wise decisions, and create their dream life.
