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Storyverse: Read~Play~Learn

By Emily On August 27, 2014 · Add Comment

When it comes to using apps as supplemental learning for your children, the App Store has an almost overwhelming variety to choose from. Don’t get me wrong – there are a ton of amazing educational apps out there, but some times you just can’t find quite what you’re looking for. So you do the only practical thing and develop your own app, something that’s just right. That’s exactly what the developers at Dog Day Digital are doing. Using the vibrant and interactive appeal of mobile devices, they create character-driven storybook experiences that draw in young readers and keep them engaged. Because creating an app of this caliber can be costly, Dog Day has turned to crowdfunding to help support their efforts. From their Kickstarter page: Storyverse is a unique 3D popup book platform, using the accessibility of tablets to present a vibrant, interactive world. Our goal is to craft [...]

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New Kickstarter campaign for coding app aimed at the under-8 crowd

By Emily On March 18, 2014 · Add Comment

Technology is now such a daily part of school learning everywhere. Computer programming (coding) literacy is being taught along side general language arts in order to give kids the skills they’ll need to succeed in the workforce after they graduate. This is the ideal phase to introduce coding, while kids are young – it’s as if they’re learning a foreign language, and their sponge-like brains will be more open to learning and more able to absorb new concepts. Scratch is an online coding program that lets older kids and adults (8 years and up) create their own games, stories, and animations, and share them with other members of the online community. For those luddites in the crowd (myself included) there are a variety of companion resources available for Scratch users that guide them through every stage of programming with scratch until the process becomes intuitive. Now the brains behind Scratch [...]

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Kickstarter Project Brings Art Class into the Home

By Faith O'Neil On December 21, 2012 · Add Comment

Creativity in children can be a beautiful thing! Who doesn’t love to see their kids get up off the sofa and use their minds to create? Unfortunately, according to owner of Thrive Art School, Theresa Harris, by the age of twelve children are only utilizing 2% of their creative potential. That’s a far cry from the 80% they use at age five. What can be done to stop this degeneration of creativity in the minds of our children? Theresa has a few ideas. The art school owner recently started a project with a $30,000 goal on the crowd-funding site, Kickstarter. What is she funding? Her project is funding her brain child. An art school…for your kids…via your iPad. How awesome is that?! Thrive Art Online will include: 6 online video art lessons, parent coaching videos, an online parenting community and an online art portfolio so that kids can share [...]

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Sassy Cassie HD Review – Colorful Chaos

By Emily On October 17, 2012 · Add Comment

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Educational & Learning Apps for the iPad and iPad mini

Storyverse: Read~Play~Learn

New Kickstarter campaign for coding app aimed at the under-8 crowd

Kickstarter Project Brings Art Class into the Home

Sassy Cassie HD Review – Colorful Chaos

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