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Adobe Voice: Elegant, easy(!) storytelling

Adobe Voice: Elegant, easy(!) storytelling
Joyce Valenza | Blogs,  Jun 11, 2014
Okay, this may be the easiest way yet to tell a professional looking story on your iPad.  I can see this app used with kiddos of nearly any age. I can see it becoming a classroom staple. (Especially when it moves to multiple platforms.) Adobe Voice is a new, free app that allows you to: [...]
Incredible Numbers and iF Poetry | Best of Apps & Enhanced Books, June

Incredible Numbers and iF Poetry | Best of Apps & Enhanced Books, June
SLJ,  Jun 10, 2014
There's poetry in numbers as iPad viewers discover this month.
Fusenews: Of talking tigers and square penguins

Fusenews: Of talking tigers and square penguins
Elizabeth Bird | Blogs,  Jun 10, 2014
So the big news this week was that a writer at Slate decided that now was an ideal time to take a potshot at adults reading young adult books.  And, as you might expect, everyone got quite hot under the collar about it.  To arms!  To arms!  Considering that this sort of thing happens pretty [...]
'Shakespeare at Play' | Touch and Go

'Shakespeare at Play' | Touch and Go
SLJ,  Jun 05, 2014
The plays, sonnets, and life of William Shakespeare have long fascinated scholars and thespians. Recently, both these groups have turned their attention to producing digital resources for students. Rick Chisholm Productions enters the arena with 'Shakespeare at Play.'
iF Poems

iF Poems
Rachel Kelly
PreS Up—A robust collection of more than 260 poems, many of which are narrated...
Incredible Numbers

Incredible Numbers
Phil Ramsden
Gr 7 Up—"Math is Beautiful," so the introduction to Touch Press's latest app states-and Incredible Numbers delivers an elegant proof of that claim...
edshelf: it’s a directory, it’s a review portal, it’s a community, it’s a curation tool . . .

edshelf: it’s a directory, it’s a review portal, it’s a community, it’s a curation tool . . .
Joyce Valenza | Blogs,  May 30, 2014
Look, up in the cloud!  It’s a directory.  It’s a review portal.  It’s a community. It’s a launchpad. It’s a curation tool.  It’s a playlist creator.  It’s an easy source of icons and QR codes. I’ve been using edshelf for some time now and it’s kinda become one of my superheroes for curating apps and [...]
Shaun Tan's 'Rules of Summer' | Touch and Go

Shaun Tan's 'Rules of Summer' | Touch and Go
SLJ,  May 28, 2014
Scholastic, the publisher of 'The Arrival,' 'The Bird King,' and other titles by Shaun Tan, released his 'Rules of Summer' late last month. Fans of this author/illustrator will recognize some familiar, characteristic elements in this series of "tableaux" featuring two boys at large in their world during the summer holidays. The app offers 11 language options.
Michelle’s smashing app fest

Michelle’s smashing app fest
Joyce Valenza | Blogs,  May 24, 2014
Michelle Luhtala had been crowd-sourcing her latest edWeb,net webinar for a few weeks and we were all feeding her tips and faves. Her resulting edWeb app-share on Wednesday kinda blew my mind. It was so much more than a list of tools. It demonstrated how educators are creatively using tools for real learning and serious [...]
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