Sunday 30 December 2012

See.Touch.Learn Pro By Brain Parade - Review


  • $29.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Nov 18, 2012
  • Version: 2.0
  • Size: 14.4 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Brain Parade, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.



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See.Touch.Learn Pro 2012 is an app for the 21st century educator and student. It is a highly quality replacement for the picture cards or flash cards that use to frequent school rooms. The app’s simple interface allows adults to quickly create highly customized lessons for individual students. See.Touch.Learn Pro 2012 brings picture cards to life as learners are able to interact with them on the iPad screen. The sky is the limit when you’re talking about potential uses for See.Touch.Learn Pro. This app was originally developed as an app for students with special needs but it is so much more. It is an educators dream and should be in every classroom around the world so it can enhance children’s lives.



Description
Apple New & Noteworthy ** Custom Picture Card Learning System – Includes more than 4,000 pictures and 2,000 exercises! Use with ABA program and individual instruction. Create your own lessons using stunning, high-quality images or use your own images. 
See, Touch, Learn.® Pro combines the effectiveness of picture cards with the power and interactivity of the iPad. Create custom exercises and lessons, automatically track performance, and carry your entire library collection with you at all times. Includes professionally designed exercises with each library.

  • Designed for the professional – a teaching tool, not a game.
  • Lessons designed by a Board Certified Assistant Behaviour Analyst. 
  • Affordable, portable and effective. 
Save $$ hundreds on flash cards and eliminate the need to carry all those cards! 


Here are just a few of the benefits of See, Touch, Learn Pro
  • Build, save, copy and reuse your custom lessons
  • No more organizing and reorganizing cards for each student
  • Create unlimited scenarios and prompts
  • Thousands of gorgeous picture cards to choose from
  • Your entire collection is portable – take it with you everywhere
  • Never misplace a card - Images are automatically backed up 
  • Save hundreds of dollars – only a fraction of the cost of physical cards 
  • o cards to wear out, no cards to lose
See, Touch, Learn Pro includes:
  • Over 4,000 high resolution images and 2,000 exercises
  • Access to the Brain Parade® Community to share your lessons and libraries with other See.Touch.Learn. Pro users around the globe.

See, Touch, Learn™ is a picture learning system designed by professionals specifically for those with autism and other special needs. See, Touch, Learn makes traditional picture cards obsolete. Parents and professionals use See, Touch, Learn to build custom picture card lessons and automatically track their child’s responses. 

What's New in Version 2.0

The Brain Parade® Community - share libraries and lessons with other See, Touch, Learn ® Pro users around the World!Improvements to how you organize lessons and libraries including:
  • Easier to view and find the lessons and libraries you want 
  • The ability to create folders to organize lessons and libraries
  • Categories for lessons and libraries
  • View and sort lessons and libraries by subject, skill level, creator, and lesson type
  • Create multiple personal libraries using your own images
  • Search for images, libraries and lessons using keywords
Improvements to the lesson functionality including:
  • The option to randomize card locations during lesson play
  • The option to turn off card wiggle for an incorrect answer
  • Auto advance to the next exercise upon correct answer selection
  • Duplicated lessons now include any custom audio you recorded

New “Play Mode” let’s you restrict access to your See.Touch.Learn content and prevent your students from making changes to your work.

Step By Step: How To Create Lessons In See,Touch, Learn Pro




 What I Like About This App
  • I can create individual specific lessons for students
  • Completely customizable
  • Hundreds if not thousands of good quality pictures are included with the app
  • It includes lessons that are ready to use
  • Record keeping is built into the app

What I Would Like To See Added In Future Updates
  • Don’t change anything just continue to add libraries and sample lessons to the app.

Is This App Appropriate For Students with Special Needs?
Without a doubt, this app is appropriate for students with special needs. The sky is the limit regarding what type of material can be entered into the app. Since you are able customize learning by importing pictures you took with the iPad camera, it helps to make learning personal for every student. I believe this is a must have app for anyone that develops any type of learning tasks for children. 


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Thursday 27 December 2012

Oh, the Pets You Can Get!: All About Our Animal Friends - Review


This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $6.49
  • Category: Education
  • Released: 08 December 2012
  • Version: 1.09
  • Size: 47.7 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
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This is the latest app available from The Cat in the Hat learning Library. I don’t know about you but I am a huge fan of this collection of books.  Indeed my son has the full collection on his bookshelf. I love that we can now take some of the titles easily with us on the go on our family iPad.

What I love most about these titles is that that they are a fantastic introduction to non-fiction books for young/early readers.  The subject matter is not too technical but yet is very informative.  My son loves non-fiction and learning and repeating interesting nuggets of information to us at all times.  Don’t you just love young curious minds – sort of what The Cat in the Hat is all about I think
There is a choice of a “read to me” or “read it myself” feature.  Highlighted narration is used in the read to me version.

Any word in bold is further explained to the user by touching the word and a pop up box appears with a complete definition. This is very helpful in expanding vocabulary.  If the user touches any word not in bold the wor
d is instantly highlighted in red text and is repeated.  
The user can also touch parts of the illustration to see what  further animation takes place. In the first frame for instance pets are boarding The Cat in the Hat’s bus  - there are cats, dogs, rabbits and guinea pigs - if they are touched the animal name is highlighted and spoken.   This is a really nice feature for reinforcing learning.  

More pet animals are introduced over the next several pages and the animation gets even more fun and interesting as they are depicted playing typical pet games!  As the story develops there is a visit to a pet diner, an explanation on what pets eat, a guest spot experience on a television show, an explanation on pet safety & pet care, a visit to a pet shelter and a visit to a veterinary clinic.  A fantastic entertaining and educational story!


If you are familiar with other wonderful apps by Oceanhouse Media you will know the quality of their apps and Oh, The Pets You Can Get does not fail to deliver either. You won’t be disappointed. Highly recommend.

Other titles in this series are:

A Whale of a Tale: All about Porposies, Dolphins & Whales
Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur
Ice Is Nice: All About the North and South Poles
There’s No Place Like Space!: All About Our Soar System. 

Wednesday 26 December 2012

The Swan Lake By Publisto - Review


The Swan Lake - by Publisto



  • $3.99
  • Category: Books
  • Released: Aug 04, 2012
  • Version: 1.1
  • Size: 202 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Publisto Ltd.
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE THIS APP PLEASE DO SO VIA THIS LINK iTUNES
The Swan Lake by Publisto tells the story of Prince Sieg and his true love Princess Odette and how Prince Sieg must overcome the powers of the evil Von Roth and his spell over Odette so they can be together.  The story is based on Tchaikovsky’s classic of the same name.

The story is beautifully depicted with fantastic artwork.   Much of the artwork has interactive features that the reader can touch to reveal a surprise action.  The highlighted narration is interestingly done and definitely helps to hold interest.  The background music of the app is Tchaikovsky classic music that makes this ebook easy listening on the ears!
Prince Sieg is introduced.   It is his 20th birthday and a great ball is thrown in his honor.  He learns he needs to choose a bride that night before the whole palace. He only wants to marry for love – how can he choose a bride in one night.

He flees in anger down to the lake to go hunting - a lake known as Swan Lake.   Just as he is about to strike a swan with his arrow she transforms into a beautiful young woman.
Prince Siege asks her what type of creature she is.  She replies that she is Princess Odette.  She explains that the evil warlock Von Roth, in the form of a horrible bird, put a spell on her.   She is a swan by day but a human by night.  

Prince Sieg vows to help her and break the spell.  Princess Odette explains that her spell can only be broken if she is loved by her one true prince.

Prince Sieg returns to the palace to the ball to find Von Roth.  The ball is in full swing with princesses seeking the hand of the prince. He only has thoughts for Odette.   Von Roth sees this and fools Prince Sieg by transforming his own daughter into Princess Odette’s image and the Prince dances away the hours unaware that he has been tricked.  Princess Odette observes the pair dancing through the window and flees to the lake sobbing.  When it is time for Price Sieg to make his choice of bride known, Prince Sieg realizes he was tricked and heads to the lake to find Princess Odette.    He finds her sobbing – he asks for her forgiveness as he was fooled into believing he was dancing with her. They both declare their love for each other.
Von Roth appears next to them and throws Prince Sieg into the lake and tries to kill Princess Odette.   Price Sieg shouts out his love for Princess Odette. This declaration of love causes Von Roth’s powers to start to fail til he finally goes up in a puff of smoke.  The spell is broken. That morning Odette does not become a swan.  She marries Prince Seig and became a queen - a swan to a queen.

The story is beautifully depicted with fantastic artwork.   Much of the artwork has interactive features that the reader can touch to reveal a surprise action.  The narration is interestingly done – lot of animated voices and definitely helps to hold interest.   
In addition to the story there are some games and activities.  

One of which is a jigsaw puzzle. There are six jigsaw puzzles in total wherein the pieces are dragged and positioned into the frame which serve as excellent fine motor skill practice.  The amount of pieces for each puzzle can be customized to suit needs either 6, 12 or 20.  

Following the jigsaw puzzles there is a drawing page to color in some artwork with may different choices to select.  

A third game is a connect-the-dot type game with a small star that follows a bigger star. After two failed efforts the correct way is shown. Sound is used to reward success.  Upon completion the outline is a pattern for something i.e. in one instance the happy couple together and it appears on the screen with a musical fanfare.  

A fourth game is a matching game of cards with images from the story. The game is played with either 16 or 30 cards to change the difficulty level.  Some pretty impressive fireworks appear once the game is won!

A final feature is one where cute postcards can be written and sent via social media.   I am not a fan of social media within apps that are easily accessible to children so this is a feature I would prefer not to have or at a minimum be done with adult supervision only.

Overall this is a beautiful story with quality illustrations set to the classic music of Tchaikovsky - what’s not to like.  


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Friday 21 December 2012

See.Touch.Learn Pro by Brain Parade - Giveaway - Open to Speech and Language Pathologists and Special Ed Teachers only


  • $29.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Nov 18, 2012
  • Version: 2.0
  • Size: 14.4 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Brain Parade, LLC
IF YOU WOULD LIKE T PURCHASE THIS APP PLEASE DO SO VIA THIS link iTunes

Description

** Apple New & Noteworthy ** Custom Picture Card Learning System – Includes more than 4,000 pictures and 2,000 exercises! Use with ABA program and individual instruction. Create your own lessons using stunning, high-quality images or use your own images.

See.Touch.Learn.® Pro combines the effectiveness of picture cards with the power and interactivity of the iPad. Create custom exercises and lessons, automatically track performance, and carry your entire library collection with you at all times. Includes professionally designed exercises with each library.

+ Designed for the professional – a teaching tool, not a game.
+ Lessons designed by a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst.
+ Affordable, portable and effective.
+ Save $$ hundreds on flash cards and eliminate the need to carry all those cards!

Here are just a few of the benefits of See.Touch.Learn. Pro
✔ Build, save, copy and reuse your custom lessons
✔ No more organizing and reorganizing cards for each student
✔ Create unlimited scenarios and prompts
✔ Thousands of gorgeous picture cards to choose from
✔ Your entire collection is portable – take it with you everywhere
✔ Never misplace a card - Images are automatically backed up
✔ Save hundreds of dollars – only a fraction of the cost of physical cards
✔ No cards to wear out, no cards to lose
See.Touch.Learn. Pro includes:
+ Over 4,000 high resolution images and 2,000 exercises
+ access to the Brain Parade® Community to share your lessons and libraries with other See.Touch.Learn. Pro users around the globe.

Based on the highly rated and highly successful See.Touch.Learn. Free 
+ Over 1,000 four and five star customer ratings!
+ DOWNLOADED OVER 250,000 TIMES 
*** CHOSEN BY APPLE AND INSTALLED ON iPADS IN APPLE RETAIL STORES! ***
*** #4 FREE iPad Education App in United States; #1 FREE iPad Education App in Australia and New Zealand
*** Featured as New and Noteworthy by Apple in iTunes

See.Touch.Learn.™ is a picture learning system designed by professionals specifically for those with autism and other special needs. See.Touch.Learn. makes traditional picture cards obsolete. Parents and professionals use See.Touch.Learn. to build custom picture card lessons and automatically track their child’s responses. 

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Thursday 20 December 2012

Pete and Sneakers App, T-Shirt & Canvas Book Bag Giveaway US ONLY





Who doesn't love Pete and Sneakers? Those totally cool penguins from the equally cool app The Pete and Sneakers Bathtime Show...We have one Pete and Sneakers T-Shirt to giveaway ( kids or adults ) open to US Residents only... Enter via the Rafflecopter below.








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Domeo Cases Giveaway



From the moment you open your iPad case to the day you realize you can't live without it, domeo is all about delivering maximum comfort and quality to your iPad experience. Every material is hand-picked. Every viewing angle scrutinized and studied.
All to insure your comfort.
We have coupled our personal experience as iPad users with hours of research. But we don't just study technology. We study how you use it. That research shows most people make use of the iPad at home relaxing.
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iPad case works with all iPads
  • Multiple viewing angles with innovative 3-sided design
  • Inner pockets store your iPad and accessories safely while not in use
  • Covers support for both portrait and landscape mode
  • iPad case designed for maximum comfort and functionality
  • Plush exterior with soft foam core
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    Grip Folio

    Works with Apple iPads (Gen 2/3/4)
    • iPad case with soft interior hand strap providing convenient one-handed use while reading or viewing
    • Exterior tactical grip for secure handling of your iPad while not in use
    • iPad case that protects your iPad with stain resistant exterior materials
    • Includes elastic band for secure closure and versatile stand for both viewing and typing

    $39.99



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    We have two of these fantastic Big Grips Frame and Stand sets to give away to two lucky US residents ( One Green, One Blue). Please enter via the Rafflecopter below. First name drawn chooses colour...





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