A+ FlashCards Pro - Free App of the Day

The most effecient way to create and memorize new words, idioms, terms or any other types of information!

Learn the efficient way! Studying for finals? Prepping for the bar exam? Med student? High school student? 

Learning a new language? Just feel like learning something new? We got you covered! 

The developers researched the best study techniques out there to design a flash card platform that is easy to use, no matter what you're learning, and no matter where you are in your learning curve. The platform supports text and images, and has multiple viewing options. 

It's designed to meet you where you are, and take you where you need to be. 

A+ Flashcards make it easy to import existing sets of cards, so if something good is out there already, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. 

Easily import sets of existing flashcards from websites like Quizlet.com (one of the largest flashcard websites featuring over 3 million free sets). 

With A+ FlashCards You can also easily create your own sets of cards and share sets with friends. 

Features: 

• User-friendly interface with a clean design 
• Leitner spaced repetition 
• Direct download of cards from Quizlet.com
• Upload your sets to Quizlet.com with API 2.0 
• Create your own sets with text, images and audio
• Draw your own images with in-app drawing tool
• Record your own audio with in-app recorder
• Import content easily from websites or photo library 
• Use with Microsoft Translation and Online Search to create cards quickly 
• Get audio pronunciation of your english words from Wordnik
• Import and export easily to Anki 
• Share sets with friends through email
• Edit card size and text size (text can also be scrolled if need be) 
• Easily back up sets with iTunes or email 
• Import CSV and Anki files with cards from PC/Mac via iTunes 
• iOS5 and iCloud support
• Quizlet 2.0 API support

Free/On Sale Educational Apps, Aug. 6 Edition

Parents know best! And so here are some top apps rated by folks that went free or on sale over the weekend:

Jazzy ABC - Music Education for Kids
Animal Farm
When the Lights Go Out (iPad)
The Whale Who Could Fly (iPad)
Kids Fun for iPhone
World Atlas by National Geographic
Cartoon ABC
Barefoot World Atlas
Art Maker by ABC's Play School

iPad Only:

When The Lights Go Out - Zentric

The Whale Who Could Fly - YETi CGI

Math Wizard - Play arithmetic spells - Smartphone Applications

Hookitty-Tookitty-Tah - Multiple Personality Entertainment

Not Without Bear - apropos

Snuggle Mountain HD - PicPocket Books

Art Maker by ABC's Play School - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

If you would like to purchase or download any of the apps listed pleased use the links above. It gives you the same great deals, but allows me to keep finding you specials! As always, check pricing before purchasing. Happy learning!

Free/On Sale Educational Apps, July 27

Big news this Friday and the iPad apps are leading the way! A brand new Cat in the Hat app has been released and is on sale: The Cat in the Hat Color & Create. Left Right Pup is a brand new iPad app, as well as the popular book Drat!, is on sale is getting high marks, too.

If you would like to purchase or download any of the apps listed, please use the links above. It gives you the same great deals, but allows me to keep finding you specials! As always, check pricing before purchasing. Happy learning!

Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat Color & Create! - Random House Digital, Inc.

Left Right Pup - KBooM Games

Drat! - zuuka! GmbH

Vocabulary Central Grade 11 - Free App of the Day

Vocabulary Central Grade 11 offers selection specific and academic support activities such as interactive flashcards and trivia games. Divided into six units of content, these activities help students learn each vocabulary word. Each unit has two activities: Flashcards and Vocab Trivia.

With Flashcards, you can build your understanding of each vocabulary word. Each flashcard provides an explanation of the word, a model sentence, a supporting image, synonyms and antonyms, word families, and background information, all with accompanying audio. After practicing, it’s time to earn some points in the Quiz mode. Once you've reviewed all the flashcards within a Unit, you can access the Vocab Trivia activity.

In Vocab Trivia, read each question, and then choose the best answer. The faster you answer a question, the higher your score will be. If you wait too long, the incorrect answers will start to vanish. When they vanish, so will your chance to score more points.

Vocabulary Central is also available for Grades 6 - 10 and 12.

WordList Pro - Free App of the Day

Preparing for a standardized test such as the GRE or SAT?

WordList Pro is an application that can help you ace the verbal section by allowing you to review and memorize the meanings of most commonly tested words.

Arranged in the form of Flash cards, this application contains 50 word lists with a total of 4000+ words.

WordList Pro is an iPhone / iPod Touch application.

Pearl Diver

Pearl Diver comes in two different versions for iPhone and iPad. 


Throw on your diving helmet, and head into the depths of the sea! Dive amidst shipwrecks and sunken ruins for the valuable pearls, maybe even the elusive black pearl. But watch out for that pesky electric eel!

Ideal for middle school and upper elementary students, grades 3-8, this app addresses number and operations standards established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), including:

=> Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.
=> Understand and represent commonly used fractions.
=> Understand fractions as part of unit wholes and as locations on number lines.
=> Compare and order fractions, and find their approximate locations on the number line.

* Developed by mathematics educators, researchers, and game developers at the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State University. Games developed by the Learning Games Lab undergo a rigorous instructional design process, extensive user testing, and input from learners, teachers, and researchers. For more information about the NMSU Learning Games Lab, visit http://learninggameslab.org.


For iPhone: 

For iPad: 

University of Phoenix Mobile - Free App of the Day

You’re juggling work, family and school, relying on your iPhone to keep everything organized.

Now you can also have your online classroom at your fingertips with this helpful new app - anytime, anywhere. 

Phoenix Mobile has the features you want most:

- Participate in online classroom discussion forums
- Draft and post to discussion threads, and reply to your classmates’ posts
- View, edit and save drafts of your discussion comment
- View message flags, discussion questions and class announcements
- Receive real-time alerts when grades are posted
- Receive real-time alerts when your instructor posts new threads or responds to your messages

To learn more about University of Phoenix online programs, visit http://www.phoenix.edu/

Japanese Traditional Art Gallery for iPad Lite - Free App of the Day

Japanese Art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper and more recently manga, cartoon, along with a myriad of other types of works of art. It also has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present.

This App, made for iPad, includes 100 images of classic Japanese artworks.

Featuring:
*Thumbnails of each diagram for easy navigation
*Bookmarks 
*and more

iTunes U - Free App of the Day

The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.

Features:

Free courses in a wide array of subjects
• Take free courses created and taught by instructors from leading universities and other schools
• See all assignments and updates from the instructor in one place, and check off assignments as you complete them
• Take notes and highlight text in iBooks and see them consolidated for easy reviewing in the iTunes U app
• Access course materials, including audio, video, books, documents & presentations, apps, and new iBooks textbooks for iPad

The world’s largest catalog of free education content:
• Choose from more than 500,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects from Algebra to Zoology
• Browse collections from education and cultural institutions in 26 countries — including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, MoMA, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress

Requirements:
• iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 or later
• An Apple ID with an iTunes Store account
• iTunes 10.5.3 or later is required to sync with a computer
• The selection of courses, collections, and availability of content linked from within a course may vary by country

Free and On Sale iPhone Apps, 6/19 Edition

Buzzle is hot all over the world right now and is free! It's ranked in the Top 100 Kid Games in the US and Top 5 in many other countries. Buzzle was also featured by the US Apple store as What's Hot and New.


Now available for iPhone, School Fonts is a highly rated app (iPad version) and on sale.  iLuv Drawing Dinosaurs also jumped from iPad to iPhone and is free.

Note: As more and more apps are coming out on iPad only, we've added a special entry just for you folks. Universal and iPhone apps will be listed in the App Store below. And as always, check the pricing before purchasing. Happy learning!

If you would like to purchase or download any of the apps listed, please use the links below. It gives you the same great deals, but allows me to keep finding you specials!

iPhone, iTouch and iPad Universal Free and On Sale Apps: