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Biography App Helps you Take a Journey with History’s most Influential People

Biography - A Journey With History’s Most Influential PeopleAre you a history buff? Do you like reading overview style biographies of those individuals who helped to shape history? In Biography – A Journey With History’s Most Influential People you can take a visually-guided tour through over 70 of the most familiar faces from the past.

Whether your interest lies with philosophers, scientists, physicians, religious leaders, political leaders, artists or the world’s greatest composers, you will have the opportunity to learn a thing or two from their talents, inventions and discoveries.

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Help Your Preschooler Learn in Oolly App – iPad App Review

Oolly AppIf there is one thing for certain, Oolly is the most enthusiastic and adorable little creature you have ever laid eyes on. Put Oolly App to good use by employing it as an educational tool and help your child to learn organizational skills while developing their fine motor control.

Instead of the usual touch-and-drag interface, Oolly App has your child use their fingers as virtual tweezers to pinch-and-move items into the correct locations.

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Can American Schools Afford Apple’s iBooks Textbooks Initiative?

With last week’s education event from Apple, the big news was the addition of textbooks to the iBookstore. Apple has teamed up with some of the largest suppliers of traditional textbooks to bring digital interactive learning tools to students in K-12 education. With this new way of teaching children, one glaring question still stands out, who will pay for it?

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Can Cheaper iPads and iBooks 2 Help Apple Bridge the Digital Divide?

During Apple’s much-anticipated “Education Announcement” today, the technology company unveiled several new publishing tools including an updated chapter in its download marketplace, iBooks 2, an online store for academic textbooks.

While the new option, available for the iPad, offers state-of-the-art technology for classrooms, it also raises questions about pricing and whether digital textbooks bridge the so-called digital divide—or simply make it bigger?

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Wonders of Geology An Aerial View of America’s Mountains – iPad App Review

Wonders of Geology An Aerial View of America’s Mountains, a new iPad book written, photographed, and narrated by Michael Collier blends the sweeping scale of a coffee table tome with the didactic ease of a PBS special. Readers are sure to learn, and yes, even be entertained, by Wonders of Geology’s stunning images and well-written text. The iPad app was adapted from Over the Mountains: An Aerial View of Geology.

Perusing this edu-book was a pleasure. As befits the book’s transition to iPad, reading it was a multi-media experience. There are countless, stunning photographs of mountain vistas and glacial basins, as well as illustrations that elucidate concepts such as plate tectonics, the rock cycle, and erosion.
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Apple Goes Back to School With Rumored Textbook Initiative

Everyone was wondering what Apple planned on revealing during its January event in New York, and as it turns out, it’s an educational announcement.

Invitations were sent out on Wednesday for the event at The Guggenheim Museum in New York on January 19th, with a background image of a chalkboard with a city skyline and an Apple logo. The invitation reads, “Join us for an education announcement in the Big Apple.” So what will Apple Announce?

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Make a Good Impression in Toy Story Showtime! – iPad Game Review

Toy Story Showtime!When it comes to creating content that engages and inspires, nobody delivers like Disney. With every bit of the imagination and quality found in everything that comes from Disney, Toy Story Showtime! doesn’t fail to impress.

Featuring your favorite characters from the popular Toy Story movies your child will be guided through a story that has Buzz Lightyear trying to impress Jessie at the talent show.

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Try to Figure Out Who Took This Photo (Zoo) – iPad Game Review

Who took this photo - ZooI get excited whenever I hear the developers at Portegno release a new app, and Who took this photo – Zoo is no disappointment.

The app is very simple to use yet teaches your child to harness their observational powers and exercise their matchmaking and comparison skills. As a parent it thrills me when you can disguise an educational opportunity as pure entertainment.

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Put Learning on the Table with TableTots – iPad App Review

TableTotsTableTots is a unique approach to a learning app for your iPad, allowing you to create “table tops” that contain lessons that you’d like to work with. Choose from sorting, counting, spelling, shapes, numbers and even basic math and build educational opportunities for your child.

The potential for customization with this app feels nearly infinite. Choose from a variety of themes and layouts, and choose whether you want peek-a-boo curtains, object sounds, quick rewards and whether you want alphabet sounds.

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Create Educational Opportunities with House of Learning – iPad App Review

House of LearningDeveloped by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, House of Learning bills itself as a tool for learning and playing. Using a series of activities within the app, you are able to work directly with your child to develop and improve their language skills.

Let’s face it, we all know what various words mean but it isn’t always easy to communicate those to your children when you are trying to help them learn. What seems obvious to us may not be to them. This app works to bridge that gap while keeping children entertained so they don’t know they are hard at work!

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Introduce Your Child to the Alphabet with VivaKids’ ABC – iPad App Review

VivaKids' ABCTeaching your child the alphabet can be a difficult task. My daughter has the ABC song completely memorized from start to finish but we are still working on actually identifying the individual letters, which is why I was very interested in taking a look at VivaKids ABC.

Designed by internationally renowned artist, author and educator Ulrike Kerber, this app is filled with animations, music and voices making it very engaging.

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A New Kind of Environmental Impact with Toddler’s Seek & Find: My Little Town – iPad Game Review

Toddler's Seek & FindWhen I sit down to review an app, I always install it and give it a whirl before I read anything about it. This gives me the opportunity to see how intuitive it is and to determine whether the purpose and use of the app is clear and easy to use. For a moment when I opened Toddler’s Seek & Find: My Little Town I was confused. Normally this would dissuade me, but after a moment I realized… this is the most interactive and interesting picture book I have ever had the fortune of using.

When you load the app, you select a scene and in a moment it is populated with more animations than you can imagine. The developers have found a way to breathe life into a still picture, and it really works well.

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Pooh’s Birthday Surprise Teaches Early Literacy & Pre-Math Skills – iPad App Review

Pooh's Birthday SurpriseI am always excited when I get the opportunity to review an app developed by Disney because they have a commitment to quality that is second to none. In keeping with this tradition, Pooh’s Birthday Surprise doesn’t disappoint.

Few characters are as classic and recognized as Winnie the Pooh which makes this app feel timeless and special.

Teaching toddlers requires a special kind of patience and skill, with the right amount of instruction and encouragement. The developers at Disney have perfected this formula and applied it to this app. Targeted at children ages 3 to 5, this app takes a simple storybook and turns it into a learning opportunity.

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Help Your Toddler Learn Animal Names with Little Farmer

Little FarmerThere are few things in the world that toddlers love more than animals and music and Little Farmer has both. Designed with babies and toddlers in mind, this app teaches your child while allowing them to do the other thing they so desperately want: to be allowed to touch mom or dad’s iPad.

Beautifully illustrated with watercolor style graphics, this app is very simple yet effective in helping your child to learn.

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Allow Your Child to be Creative with Fairies Activity Cards – iPad App Review

Fairies Activity CardsFairies Activity Cards is a very sweet app that gives your little one the opportunity to flex their creative muscles with a series of digital activity cards. Whether they like it best because they are artistic and can’t resist anything resembling a craft or they think fairies are tiny little princesses, the app provides hours of entertainment potential.

Apps easy enough for your toddlers to use are not terribly common yet, particularly those that are actually teaching and reinforcing skills while they play. The nice thing about this app is that it doesn’t really require the same attention span as the more common digital book genre, your child gets to touch and play with every screen instead of having to just sit quietly and watch.

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