Apps
The award-winning British digital developer with a distinct approach to fairy tales has a new app, and it's something to crow about.
This month’s selection of apps take viewers on journeys: following threads of of invention across time, and to Shakespeare’s works, in a presentation designed especially for students.
Once again it's time to raise a few balloons as we celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2) with a roundup of his stories and Seuss-inspired titles, released as apps within the past 12 months.
Capturing kids’ interest through games and badges is generally effective, but the trivia game 'Ansel and Clair: American Bowl' makes it clear that careful consideration must be given to both pacing and learning opportunities.
Buncee is "an easy fit for digital storytelling and scrapbooking, flipping, presenting, marketing, and for communicating with parents and community," says Joyce Valenza.
'Axel's Chain Reaction,' an original story app written by Allison Pomenta and illustrated by Mónica Armiño, provides multiple avenues to explore in a classroom, including a nonfiction investigation on kinetic art. It will also serve character education programs.
Prepare to get lost in the latest Touch Press app, 'Journeys of Invention,' developed in association with London's Science Museum. Fourteen threads allow viewers to follow the creation of related technologies through time and cultures, and offer them some hands-on experiences with inventions ranging from a 17th-century microscope to a 20th-century encoder.
This month’s app selections are strong choices for home and school collections: two engaging productions for kids learning the alphabet, and an interactive introduction to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the debates that swirl around the document today.
Plays by Shakespeare often send high school students running for the hills, turned off by the language and ultimately missing out on some of the world’s greatest literary masterpieces. Is there a solution to this problem? Australia’s national theater company, Bell Shakespeare, thinks so.
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