Apps
PreS-Gr 1—This playful letter-matching, speech-developing app opens with a parade of colorful, Pokemon-like creatures dancing across the screen...
PreS-Gr 1—Fans of Suse MacDonald's Caldecott Honor title, Alphabatics (S & S, 1986), will enjoy this app which highlights a succession of expressive creatures set against boldly colored backgrounds, each representing a letter of the alphabet...
Gr 4–8—Kids Discover continues to engineer their award-winning print magazines into well-designed apps...
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.
"Blaring trumpets, rumbling timpani. Dramatic surges of volume followed by ominous moments of quiet. Nobody has ever accused German composer Richard Wagner of subtlety." ''The Wagner Files,' a graphic novel, creates a vivid portrait of the 19th-century composer covering his music, and equally dramatic personal life and political activities from 1848 to his death in 1883.
The 'Aesop for Children' for iOS from the Library of Congress provides a window for today's children into a past where the way a crow manages to get a drink from a bottle and the consequences of goats facing off on a narrow bridge prove instructive for real life.
With accessible tools, you and your students can create your own simple animations to convey powerful ideas. Screencast tutorials will have you up and running with the latest "Cool Tools" from Richard Byrne, SLJ columnist and blogger at "Free Technology for Teachers."
Judging from the number of alphabet apps, it appears that every developer has created at least one. This week we look at five of them, each worthy of a child's attention.
A week ago I shared ten digital tech trends within the confines of a word count. Here’s an expanded version with all the links and details. For a profession situated at the intersection of metaliteracy, education and emerging technologies, forecasting is kind of exciting. For a profession threatened by severe cuts in educational spending and [...]
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