Over 6 million people have downloaded the grown-up version of 7 Little Words. Which was recognized in O, The Oprah Magazine. Now Discover 7 Little Words that’s made just for kids, which received a 2013 Children’s Technology Review—Editor’s Choice Award for Excellence in Design. You and your kids will discover 7 colorful worlds and solve mini puzzles.
Children can enjoy five books for free, while a paid subscription gives them access to hundreds more across fun categories like Awesome People and Animal Kingdom, with recommendations based on their interests. Parents can use the app to promote reading at home, and it offers teachers a vast library, making it easy to align with Common Core.
We’ll tell you if it’s worth your time, if what we find is any good. Wonders of Life brilliantly capture the basics of biology, everywhere from North America to Africa to Australia and beyond. Physicist Brian Cox expertly illustrates the diversity and complexity of life with vivid images, text, and videos, sparking a sense of imagination and urge for exploration.
Apps like Science360 gives the type of immersive experience the iPad was made for. It feel like you’re taking a deep long dive into a multimedia world of endless knowledge which the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides through this app. It’s a plethora of engaging science and engineering images and videos from around the globe.
I wholeheartedly suggest encouraging kids, students, and peers to attend hackathons or makeathons, or community innovation days. Better yet, host one in your community! Let me tell you about my experience, and why I feel that being part of a group of people, making something together, is an invaluable experience.
Now that Microsoft has released its suite of apps for the iPad, consumers and critics alike weighing in on just how useful these apps are on the iPad’s platform. This week we take a look at the Pros & Cons of Microsoft Excel for iPad. As with Word, and PowerPoint, Excel requires an Office 365 subscription of $99.00 annually.
Some critics are hailing them as the final key the iPad needed to be considered a true content creation device, which according the some drives the final death nail in Microsoft’s own tablet the surface. Does that mean they are absolutely perfect? This week, we’ll take a look at the Pros & Cons of Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad.
Brainscape is based on the simple premise: When you study, each concept should be repeated with in the amount of time that is just long enough for your maximum memory encoding. Repeating an easy concept to soon risks wasting your time, while repeating a difficult concept to late risks your having to learn it all over again.
WikiLinks is the most fun and powerful way to discover everything Wikipedia has to offer, and a fantastic multilingual and multimedia experience including YouTube videos and advanced image browsing. WikiLinks’ intuitive interface makes it a research powerhouse that brilliantly brings different sources of media together in one place.
The weather is usually a nice topic to start a conversation with someone who’s not living in your same area. This is because it is not usually the same everywhere. You may notice too that the weather is even almost moody because it usually, changes from day to day. Two days ago it was snowing while today there is no snow. You know how it goes.
