Apples And Apps

Jul 23, 2012

Let’s Color! - Free App of the Day

It’s a living, breathing coloring book! Let’s Color! is a magical (and educational) new twist on children’s coloring books.

Simply color a page, press the GO button and watch your drawings come to life. A few dots become falling snow. Scribbles turn to smoke plumes puffed from chimneys. A jagged line pulsates into fire (or water or mustard or whatever a child imagines) spewing from a dinosaur’s mouth.

Afterwards, save your child’s drawing and email it to family and friends!

This time, there are even more free pages, more animation effects, and more features, all designed to inspire children and encourage their creativity.

Let’s play! Let’s learn! Let’s Color!

Features:
• 18 free “living” drawing pages
• Drawing palette including stickers, chalk, colors, and more
• 16 additional pages available
• Features international award-winning Lazoo art
• Gallery for saved pictures
• Email, Facebook, Twitter, and print capabilities
• Upload pictures to Lazoo’s digital treasure chest
• Charming animated short featuring Miku the Bunny and friends

Jul 20, 2012

Free and On Sale Educational Apps, July 20 Edition

There are so many wonderful free and on sale apps this Friday, I seriously don't even know where to begin. So I'm just going to give you some highlights. But be sure to check out the entire list. There are a lot of apps just too good to pass up!

iPad Only Apps:

Even Monsters Get Sick - Busy Bee Studios

Witchemina - Interactive Children's Storybook - My Black Dog Books, LLC

Math Dojo - Fun Math for Kids - Yogome, Inc

Happi 123 HD - A Math Game for Kids by Happi Papi - Serendipity

Itsy-Bitsy Fairy Tales - Simiula

Urki, beyond the forest - PixelMoon

Kandy Fish - Emantras Inc

Plurality - Zorten

Milly and Molly’s Monday - Kiwa Media

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!

BrainPOP Featured Movie - Free App of the Day

Learn something new every day!

Bring learning to your fingertips™ with the BrainPOP Featured Movie app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Watch a different animated movie every day, then test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz – free!

For even more access to BrainPOP’s award-winning content, choose an optional in-app subscription and enable kids to explore more than 750 Science, Math, Social Studies, English, Engineering & Tech, Arts & Music, and Health subjects right on their mobile devices. All movies are close captioned, so it’s easy for them to read along.

The BrainPop app has been downloaded nearly 1.5 million times. Education writers, parents, teachers, and kids themselves have lauded it in over 5,000 reviews – for everything from its original voice and extensive selection of topics to its ease of use and unique delivery of fresh content daily. It’s also been recommended by Macworld, FOX News, USA Today, iPhone Life, and Common Sense Media, among other outlets, and featured multiple times in the iTunes App Store.

For more than a decade, BrainPOP has been a trusted, go-to source of animated, educational content, in homes and in thousands of subscribing schools around the globe.

Jul 19, 2012

Free and On Sale Educational Apps, July 19 Edition

Lots of goodies today! Explore for yourself :-)

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!

Rocket Speller - Free App of the Day

Rocket Speller is a fun and engaging spelling app for 3-7 year olds. Educators, occupational therapists, special education teachers, and parents agree that kids are engaged and learning with this app.

Kids join Zip the alien on an out-of-this-world spelling adventure to build a fancy new rocket. With 4 levels of difficulty, kids spell words to fuel his spaceship and help him choose the rocket pieces he needs.

Correctly place letters to spell words and move through the game. Choose a rocket nose, body, and boosters. Once Zip has collected all the pieces, launch it from the launch pad and watch it soar into space!

Level 1 - Place letters in any order. Letter hints given.
Level 2 - Must place letters in order. Letter hints given.
Level 3 - Simple words. Must place letters in order. No hints.
Level 4 - Complex words. Must place letters in order. No hints.

As a special surprise (and to invoke a giggle), touch Zip on the spelling pages and see what he does!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Learn to spell words in a way that is fun, interactive and promotes self-initiated skill progression
- Develop awareness of how letters combine to form words
- Develop awareness of left to right order
- Promote letter recognition
- Reinforce knowledge of letter names
- Enhance vocabulary

FEATURES
- Kid-friendly interface
- 4 levels of difficulty engage children at different stages of development
- A combination of simple and complex words to enhance vocabulary
- Words are different every time you play
- Choose upper or lower-case letters
- Hundreds of possible rocket combinations!
- Interactive alien
- Entertaining

Jul 18, 2012

Space Images for iPad - Free App of the Day

★ Staff Favorite on iTunes (Space Images for iPhone V1)!

Discover stunning images and videos of space, stars and planets -- including Earth and the sun! -- at your fingertips with the Space Images app from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a leader in robotic exploration of the solar system.

NASA/JPL's Space Images app offers a unique view of the sky via hundreds of images taken by spacecraft studying planets, stars, galaxies, weather on Earth and more. Save to your device as backgrounds or wallpaper and share them with friends on Facebook, Twitter and email as you scan through our extensive photo albums and rate your favorites.

The Space Images app works together with NASA/JPL’s newly launched Space Images website at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jplimages, so you can always have a view of space on the go (via iPhone and iPad) or at your desk.

Features

· Discover the latest science images and videos of planets, stars, galaxies, weather and more
· Share photos and videos with friends on Facebook and Twitter
· Rate photos and check out which ones make the Top Rated list
· Choose the best space images and keep them handy in the Favorites folder
· Search for images or browse by categories -- now including Editor’s Pick!
· Access full captions for more on scientific discoveries, NASA spacecraft and missions
· Save images to your mobile device as backgrounds and wallpapers

Space Images for iPad - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jul 17, 2012

Free/On Sale Educational Apps, 7/17 Edition

My goodness! There's something in the air, because tons of math-related apps went free and on sale for today. Is it a conspiracy? Who cares. Get your kiddos on the right path for math. These apps range from toddlers to high school so find the right one for your kid.