Time Machine: Age of the Emperors

Time Machine: Age of the Emperors is a excellent educational iOS eBook that is free today.  This is an innovative digital book that is great for History teachers that is highly interactive for students.  The way this works is a user creates a profile/character and then makes decisions as they explore different ancient emperors and civilizations.  The choices they make affects their progress throughout the book and best of all it saves their progress as they go along.

I highly recommend checking out Time Machine: Age of the Emperors by clicking here!!!

Nuskool

Nuskool is an innovative site that I just learned about from Edshelf.  This is a fantastic new site that uses pop culture as teaching moments for students.  Tailored to grades 6th-12th students learn a variety of subjects such as: Math, Science, English, etc through educational lessons based on the different elements of pop culture (video games, sports, films, etc.).

I highly recommend checking out Nuskool by clicking here!!!

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eStoryStudio

eStoryStudio is a new (beta) site for creating digital stories.  This is a very user friendly nice looking site that allows users to create a story by adding: text, images, audio, video, etc.  Also, once a story is finished a person can then publish it online for others to buy.

I recommend checking out eStoryStudio by clicking here!!

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Quandary

Quandary is a fantastic free site/game that I've blogged about in the past that is built around engaging student's ethical and critical thinking skills.  This game actually kind of reminds me of the book Divergent where students have to make choices that affects the outcome of the game.  This game definitely has a Science Fiction feel as it takes places on a planet named Braxos where players have to make choices between questions that have no right or wrong answer.  It really is a unique gaming experience and one that has landed Quandary many awards.

Quandary has just released their mobile app which not only allows students to play on a mobile device but also allows them to create their own characters.

I highly recommend checking out Quandary by clicking here!!!

For the free Quandary iPad app click here!!!

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Lucidpress

Lucidpress is a wonderful new tool for creating free multimedia collaborative documents.  This reminds me of a bit of Google Doc's and Richard Byrne put it best when he said, " look at Lucidpress as being the best of Apple's Pages and the best of Google Documents combined into one slick service."

The way this works is by creating a document and then having a real-time chat going on to collaborate.  There are other nice features such as commenting and setting permissions on who can and can't view/edit.  Also, this works in a browser so can be used on any device.

I highly recommend checking out Lucidpress by clicking here!!!

Edshelf News

Edshelf one of my favorite educational sites for curating the web has just teamed up w/ Balefire Labs another excellent curation site to make it easier to find top quality educational apps.  As of right now it is in the beginning stages of this exciting partnership where users will find a Balefire Top Rated badge on certain apps in Edshelf's collection.  Click here for an example.

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clicking here!!!

Faces iMake ABC

Faces iMake ABC is a wonderful iPad app by iMagine Machine for PreK-KDG/toddlers wanting to learn their letters/alphabet.  There are lots of apps that do this but what makes Faces so great is how interactive it is for kids.  A user has two choices either to learn the letters or find a letter.  The learning part has a kid tap a letter, here it pronounced, and then try to put together a picture associated w/ that letter.  The find a letter is a great way for kids to associate words w/ a letter such as D for Dog.

Right now I have my 2 yr old playing this and she loves it, but also I'll use it w/ my 4 yr who started KDG this year to help reinforce the alphabet which he is learning in school.

I highly recommend checking out Faces iMake ABC by clicking here!!!

Below is a brief demo...



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