Children love photo-essays and stories about animals and educators looking to introduce global issues into the curriculum often find endangered animals a good place to start. The World Wildlife Fund provides a digital offering on the topic, with an update to their WWF Together app, available free on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire.
Educational Video with a Twist | SLJ Reviews Flocabulary
By on November 12, 2015
Remember the days of School House Rock? Enter Flocabulary. Jennifer Hanson sizes up the popular resource for educational hip-hop videos in SLJ’s review.
WonderBox: Explorations in Science, Geography, Music, and Design | Touch and Go
By on November 4, 2015
The WonderBox app provides content, creation opportunities, and a mini social network—with features and safeguards that will please parents.
Haunted Houses & Headless Horsemen: Halloween Apps | Touch and Go
By on October 27, 2015
Halloween is here! From classic to contemporary stories (and a bit of augmented reality thrown in for good measure) we have apps for every age and sensibility.
Dr. Seuss in a New, Digital “Read & Learn” Series | Touch and Go
By on October 22, 2015
When do you take an already successful app and improve upon it? And from a consumer’s point of view: does the new product warrant replacing a perfectly readable book or functioning program?
“iBiomes—Wetlands” | Touch and Go
By on October 15, 2015
A cheery professor guides students through “iBiome-Wetland,” an app designed to teach students about biodiversity through a series of gamelike activities featuring a fresh water marsh, a salt water marsh, and a mangrove swamp.
Skill Building with “Fiete” Apps | Touch and Go
By on October 8, 2015
A cheerful sailor named Fiete invites children to join him on a number of his daily activities in a series of colorful apps produced by Ahoiii Entertainment. The apps will have kids flexing their pre- reading and numeracy skills and challenging their memories.
Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” on the iPad | Touch and Go
By on October 1, 2015
Our reviewer Pam Schembri cites the performers’ commentary as one of the strengths of this production, and calls it “a treasure for both professionals, students of music, and dabblers.”
Moobot’s Back with “Billy’s Booger” in Digital | Touch and Go
By on September 23, 2015
Billy’s Booger: As described on the Moonbot site, this “highly anticipated,” “completely (sorta) true story from William Joyce’s experience in the fourth grade” has been “40 years in the ‘picking.’” And it’s now available in digital.
The Bard Gets Bawdier |”Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be” | Touch and Go
By on September 17, 2015
Studying parody or William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in class? Looking for retelling of a classic with an unusual twist? Don’t miss “Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be,” now in digital.
