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CTR June 2013:  Scratch 2.0, Lessons From Asilomar, Apps For Young Artists, Soccer

Posted on June 3, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Amazon Bolsters Children’s Content on Kindle FreeTime

Posted on June 19, 2013 | 0 Comment
The following press release was issued June 18. Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Adds Popular New Kids Content From Disney, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Electronic Arts  More ...
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Editor’s Choice April 2013

Posted on June 8, 2013 | 0 Comment
NOTE: We post these columns 30 days after the original issue date. Subscribers are given first access. Click here to subscribe ($30/year for 12 issues). Here’s a summary of the the ...
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Watch and Find – VeggieTales Games and Video Clips

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This object recognition activity mixes video clips with a hunt and find game that is cleverly layered over the moving video. The video in this case comes from VeggieTales ...
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Trip, The – Little Critter GamePak

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Designed to accompany the Little Critter eBook called “The Trip” this “GamePak” is a set of 50 workbook and flashcard style activities based ...
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Tipping Point Adventure Game

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a five chapter science-fiction adventure that starts with a view of a modern-day living room out in present time in your living room, when you intercept a cryptic ...
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Scratch 2.0

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: There are three things to know about this update to the Scratch programming language, which uses jigsaw-puzzle like bits of code that snap together, bringing programming ...
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Sago Mini Sound Box

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This updated edition of Sound Shaker (CTR March 2010) is designed for very young children (12 months and up) offering them a set of musical materials in a way that could ...
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Sago Mini Forest Flyer

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: In this app, children use their finger to steer a bird around a forest, where they discover 32 different animated routines. You start by touching the birdhouse, which ...
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Rijksmuseum Online Art Collection

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl is a free, online archive of 125,000 high resolution images. Each image gives you the ability to zoom in, making ...
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Petting Zoo

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This app, for both iOS and Android, connects one “page” (or screen) with the next by way of often related interactive features. For example, in one screen ...
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My Little Story Factory

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a mad-lib style story creation activity that lets you construct meaning by shifting pieces of text. The large number of possible combinations makes it possible ...
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Me and You, ACHOO!

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Me and You, ACHOO! is a strange rhyming story about a young couple dealing with an end of the world scenario caused by a killer virus. The couple, depicted as two lovers ...
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Madagascar: My ABCs

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This app is designed to let children build their own alphabet book by dragging letter-related stickers onto a letter screen. These pages can be saved as images in your ...
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Living Stories: The Brave Little Tailor

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: A Brothers Grimm interactive fairy tale comes to your iPad in this eBook, with pages that turn into jigsaw puzzles. The reading level is good for older children or adults. ...
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Kids Boats

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Kids Boats is a maze game where you try to steer a boat along a river without hitting things. The idea is to provide a setting where children can practice fine motor ...
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The Jungle Book

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This eBook, adapted from the Rudyard Kipling’s tale, consists of 29 pages of narrated text, with four language options. Nine of the pages turn into 3D activities, ...
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Happy Draw Bug

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a set of guided drawing lessons that makes it possible to see the lines you are supposed to draw before you draw them. It’s another example of a pedagogy ...
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Draw This App

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a set of self-correcting art sketching tutorials, with content sold as an in-app purchase (the first two levels are free). Created in Toronto by artist Peterson ...
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Disney Junior Appisodes: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Called Disney Junior Appisodes for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, this collection of linear footage combines viewing with minimal interaction points, including faux voice ...
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Animal Train

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Designed to help your child “learn animal sounds” this app comes with a seven car train — but just two of them are available — the other five ...
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Abricot Games – Hide & Seek

Posted on June 4, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This hidden object app fills every pixel of your screen with detailed art, along with a simple challenge — to find one of four characters shown on the bottom of ...
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YodelOh Math Mountain

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This math drill that takes place in a carnival game. In order to win, you must correctly solve as many problems as possible before Hans the Hiker falls off the cliff. ...
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Type Defender

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Nearly every typing tutorial has a game where you must stop approaching enemies by typing out the short words they carry. If you miss a word, the enemies score points, ...
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Turn And Learn

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Turn and Learn is a smart flashcard app that makes it easy to practice basic vocabulary words in English, German, French, Italian and Russian. The screen is set up in ...
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Trip, The – Little Critter Reading Adventure

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: In this Mercer Meyer story, you start with a choice of the classic “just read” and “reading adventure” modes. The story is a good one … ...
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Tale of a Snowflake, The

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This eBook introduces children to the concept of the water cycle. In the story, a little girl captures a talking snowflake, who explains how she started as a drop of ...
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StoryBots Tap & Sing

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a living xylophone that has keys that can teach you songs. Each note on the two octave scale is represented by one of JibJab’s StoryBot characters. You ...
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Slice of Bread goes to the Beach

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This 15 screen/page ebook tells the story of what happens when a slice of bread visits the beach. The animated effects support the story, which is written, narrated ...
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Seaworld Presents Turtle Trek

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This app lets you steer a baby sea turtle through a five zone maze of danger, friends and treasure in order to meet some friends. As you explore, you collect coins and ...
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Ruff’s Bone

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is an updated iPad edition of the classic Living Book. If you’re in your early 20s, you might recall the CD-ROM edition of the story. Ruff loves his “Sunday ...
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Quigley the Caterpillar

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: In the story, Quigley the caterpillar meets a beautiful butterfly named Bertina. Now Quigley sees himself as plain and wants to fly gracefully like Bertina and will ...
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Preschool Maze 123

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Following Toddler Maze 123, Preschool Maze offers 16 more mazes, each with different themes that include pirates, aliens and penguins and more that you must help to ...
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Potty Training: Learning with the animals

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Here’s a potty training app that starts with the question “do you have butterflies in your stomach?” You then help farm animals and two children use ...
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Pitch Painter

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a musical finger painting app that lets children create music, while introducing them to a variety of musical instrumental sounds and authentic scale tunings ...
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Patterns by Edninja

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a puzzle game that introduces patterns. Content includes 60 level sets consisting of dozens of pattern-completion puzzles. Here’s how it works: In each ...
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Mystery Math Town

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: Math facts (of the flashcard variety) meet a haunted house in this leveled exploration game. Your mission is to help a friendly ghost rescue the fireflies by exploring ...
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Meanwhile

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This app turns a storyline into a maze with a visual branching set panels. You quickly learn that there are many different paths to the end, and only one has a happy ...
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Mazement

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This is a ball rolling maze game where you tilt your iPad in order to move from one level to the next. Along the way, you avoid holes and pick up items to score points. ...
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Matching Puzzle Cards: Colors

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 Comment
Review Excerpt: This app turns the pedagogy of the flash card inside out, by making each card into an animated two piece jigsaw puzzle that you can snap together the parts.  For example, ...
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