The iPad and apps are here to stay and have the potential for dramatically altering the manner in which we provide services. The interactive ability of apps is one feature that makes it stand out from the traditional materials we have spent a small fortune accumulating. Another feature is action or moveability. Figures can move [...]
I think I'll make this post a short one. Instead of going into a lot of detail about the app, I'll give the basics and then make my recommendation.Baby Cortex, the developer, has put out 11 apps to date of which a large number are musical apps such as Baby Piano, Baby Classical Mozart and [...]
You may have read my previous blog that reviewed the Families 1 and 2 apps created by myfirstapps.com. Below, I review 3 additional apps by this company.The goal of the Opposites app is to drag 2 pictures with opposite meanings into the two boxes in the middle of the screen. There are 10 pictures, 5 [...]
The company myfirstapp.com has created a host of fine apps targeting categorization, opposites, and more. All of the apps feature clear, colorful and attractive pictures. The apps can be downloaded for free. With the free download come 3 games. For $.99 an additional 3 games can be downloaded to the app. The apps I've downloaded [...]
This app is based on the My Very First Books by Eric Carle. Interestingly, the name of this vocab app was also my very first app downloaded for therapy. It was the app that taught me the lesson that there are far better free apps available. Now, I don't assume that there is a direct [...]
The first thing one may want to do when opening the Fruit Find app is hit the music note icon, located on the upper right hand side of the screen, to off. If one doesn't do this, the at first pleasant music begins to feel like a worm in one's ear.The name Fruit Find is [...]
Thanks for the info. I am going to check it out.
In addition to the English Baby app and kindergarten.com app for fruits and nuts, I have downloaded 3 apps that target fruit vocabulary. Two of the apps use the same illustrations and background. They both are called Fruit Book. Maybe they are created by the same company. I'm trying to figure that out. I have [...]
Kindergarten.com has put out a multitude of apps sorted into categories of 50 images each. Each app category is downloaded individually. I've downloaded 13 of their free apps. These apps were designed more for the iPhone than the iPad. When downloaded, one can view the pictures as iPhone size or enlarge to 2x. The enlarged [...]
Peekaboo App The Peekaboo app, by Sai Services, is one of my favorite vocab apps. Children love this app. Each vocab picture is exposed by moving an icon up, down and across each page in eraser fashion. Children enjoy the anticipation of seeing which picture they will expose. The icon and the picture erased [...]
