Posts Tagged ‘child’
SOUND BEGINNINGS 1.0 for Mac OS-Six Learning Games Teach Phonics
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:00 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:00
Preschool University today introduces SOUND BEGINNINGS 1.0 for Mac OS X, the 4th in their series of educational apps that help young children learn to read. Utilizing proven Montessori principles, SOUND BEGINNINGS helps build strong phonics skills and helps develop foundational reading skills. Six learning games offer practice using the sounds and not the names of the letters, and lowercase instead of uppercase letters at the beginning, middle, and end of words. Continue reading
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HealthTeacher Creates Anti-Bullying Mobile Game Awesome Upstander!
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 08:50 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 21 August 2012 08:50
HealthTeacher has released Awesome Upstander!, a fun mobile game that teaches kids how to stand up to bullies in a safe and positive way. Filled with challenges, levels, hidden objects and fun sound effects, Awesome Upstander! is designed to engage kids just like other popular interactive games while promoting social good. The app offers a highly entertaining play experience for kids while teaching them they have the power to diminish bullying by banning together as upstanders. Continue reading
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iSpell that! App for iPad
Last Updated on Monday, 20 August 2012 05:00 Written by iUseMac Monday, 20 August 2012 05:00
Laura J. White Mobile Development introduces iSpell that! 1.0 for iOS. This app is designed to provide a fun experience for children learning or practicing to spell three letter words. This app provides a bank of 50 images and associated audio recordings pertaining to the words. The child taps on the three letters presented with the image in the correct order to spell the word. If the word is misspelled, the word and audio are provided again, allowing three chances to spell the word correctly. Continue reading
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Eflishki are celebrating Back To School with a Huge iPad storybook sale
Last Updated on Friday, 17 August 2012 12:00 Written by iUseMac Friday, 17 August 2012 12:00
Starting August 17th, for three days, Elfishki are celebrating Back to School season with the Biggest Sale Event Ever. All Elfishki iPad storybooks are now 75% off. Elfishki storybooks are one-of-a-kind interactive iPad applications that will help your elementary school child develop his or her comprehension and reading skills for the Back-to-School season. The storybooks are specifically designed to inspire the love of reading while supporting your kids’ conscious reading skills. Continue reading
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Now kids can discover & explore the magic of art w/ Merry Cherub for iOS
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:50 Written by iUseMac Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:50
Maryland based One Monk Clapping today announces the recent update of Merry Cherub for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Merry Cherub gives young children an avenue to interact with and explore vividly colorful drawings of diverse animals by simply uncovering them with a few swipes of their fingers. With professional illustrations and a design that immerses youthful users in the experience of exploration, Merry Cherub is an exciting new addition to the kids’ app canon on the App Store. Continue reading
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If Pinterest Married WhatsApp, Their Child Would Be ShopChat
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 08:02 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 15 August 2012 08:02
The new ShopChat app makes shopping fun and easy to manage. Images can be snapped and instantly added to shopping lists with the phone’s camera, or from online shopping sites. Users can check compatibility of items with fully customizable look sheets, which are integrated into each shopping list. Combining the best of Instagram – photo utility, Pinterest – tracking user interests, and WhatsApp /iMessage – real time conversations, ShopChat ensures an interactive and fun shopping experience. Continue reading
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Let your young ones experience stories that help them grow w/ Joy Tales
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 02:30 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 15 August 2012 02:30
Swiss based Desdoo today announced the recent launch of Joy Tales for the iPad. A unique storybook geared to help children develop happily, this app provides young users with twelve diverse stories, with each tale designed to encourage kids’ positivity in their first few years of life. Developed to be as engaging and fun,Joy Tales’ stories entertain children with vibrant professionally drawn illustrations, page-by-page interactive elements, and flexible audio narration options as well. Continue reading
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Kids Coloring Book Pages 1.0 Free for iOS – Super Graphics, Retina Ready
Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:00 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:00
Leads Unlimited Inc. today introduces Kids Coloring Book Pages 1.0 free for iOS, their game that lets kids create coloring book masterpieces, sign, and save them. Featuring Marker, Crayon, Spray Paint, and Paint Brush coloring tools, budding artists simply touch any enclosed white area on the page, and it is automatically colored in with their chosen color. With 100 different pages in 10 categories, the Retina-display compatible app includes music, and a sliding color selector with 44 choices. Continue reading
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Ice Cream Truck – Game for Kids by fantastoonic
Last Updated on Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:05 Written by iUseMac Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:05
fantastoonic today introduces Ice Cream Truck 1.0.1, its new creative and educational game for kids for iPhone and iPad. In Ice Cream Truck, you are the ice cream man. Players can try out the roles of ice cream man and customer. Kids can play with friend, sibling, parent, caretaker or favorite toy. Drive your truck around the neighborhood. Beep, use windscreen wipers, play one of four chimes to let everyone know that Ice Cream Truck is coming, turn on the lights when it gets dark and more. Continue reading
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Nosy Crow Launches Rounds Franklin Frog, a Life Science App for Children
Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 August 2012 05:38 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 8 August 2012 05:38
Independent publisher Nosy Crow announces its first non-fiction book app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, Rounds: Franklin Frog, is now available on the App Store. The first app in an innovative new series about the life-cycles of animals invites children to participate in every stage of Franklin the Frog’s life, from birth to parenthood. Illustrated by Barry Tranter and written by Emma Tranter, this interactive, multimedia app is recommended for children ages 3 to 6. Continue reading
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Mermaid Fashion Show- Mermaid Dress Up App for iOS and Android
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 August 2012 03:00 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 7 August 2012 03:00
Children’s book illustrator Laura Tallardy is proud to announce the release of her new dress-up app, Mermaid Fashion Show- a child-friendly paper doll app with no ads or in-app purchases for girls ages 3 . It is available on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, Kindle Fire, B&N Nook and Google Play markets. They can pick out an adorable ocean pet, give the mermaid a name, and choose a background. They can select the mermaid’s skin tone, eyes, hair color, features and tail and dress up the mermaid. Continue reading
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SOUND BEGINNINGS 1.0 for iOS – Six Learning Games Teach Advanced Phonics
Last Updated on Monday, 6 August 2012 12:30 Written by iUseMac Monday, 6 August 2012 12:30
Preschool University today introduces SOUND BEGINNINGS 1.0 for iOS, the 20th in their series of educational apps that help young children learn to read. Utilizing proven Montessori principles, this is the company’s first paid app. SOUND BEGINNINGS helps build strong phonics skills and helps develop foundational reading skills. Six learning games offer practice using the sounds and not the names of the letters, and lowercase instead of uppercase letters at the beginning, middle, and end of words. Continue reading
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Newest Elfishki iPad storybook develops kids’ conscious reading skills
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 August 2012 02:00 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 1 August 2012 02:00
California based Elka Palka Production LLC today introduces Elfishki and The Performance in the Fountain, a fairy tale storybook for iPad. This one-of-a-kind multilingual interactive app will help your elementary school child develop his or her comprehension and reading skills for the Back-to-School season. It is designed to inspire the love of books while developing your kids’ conscious reading skills according to the Common Core State Standards for Elnglish Language Arts. Continue reading
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Brush of Truth Named 2012 Media of The Year by Creative Child Magazine
Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 03:00 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 31 July 2012 03:00
Brush of Truth, an interactive book app for tweens 8-12, has been named a 2012 Media of the Year award winner by Creative Child Magazine. Written in second person, “your” voice, Brush of Truth lets the user choose how the action unfolds at critical points in the plot. Featuring 125 pages of story and colorful illustrations, with 65 decision points and 20 possible endings, Brush of Truth is the first book app created by Story Bayou, mom Julie Landry Laviolette’s vision to get tweens to read. Continue reading
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Screen Time IPhone App Continues To Rise The App Charts
Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 02:45 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 31 July 2012 02:45
Not a month after version 1.2 was released, the developers of Screen Time – Media Time Manager iPhone app are announcing the release of another much anticipated update. Parents will now hear an alert as time is running out and children will have better visual feedback on their dwindling minutes. A major update is scheduled to be released to include a shiny new iPad version with more features and a new look. Continue reading
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