iTouch Apps for Education

If you haven’t heard about our downloads and latest app read the previous post.  However, I have exciting news to share with everyone about our newest and hopefully published soon apps.

• We have tic-tac-spell that uses the dolche list that will allow a child to play tic tac toe, hear a word and spell the words to get a square.  The computer plays the opponent but doesn’t have to spell anything. Coming out within the month. Dustin Lieske
• We have an addition investigation approach for double digit and triple digit with a theme of apples, trees, and a worm to help you along the way.  That should be done around May. Jeff  McElhannon
• We have another spelling app that says the word, shows the letters scrambled and the student has to unscramble the word.  This also uses the dolche list but will have the ability to add your own list.  This one should be out in June.  Stephen Jackson and Heather Martin
• We have a matching capital letters with lower case letters by picking the correct clams (card flipping but made fancy by animated crabs) Bryan Keelon.

We need some help, please!

1. If anyone has special spelling  lists that are commonly used within their curriculum and would like to include please send and give it a name that other teachers would recognize.
2. Phonetic spelling words and their associated phonetically correct spelling.
3. Ideas for an elementary music education app.

As always if you know of anyone needing an app for specific purposes we are open to any and all ideas.

As of the week of 3/27/2011 4525 apps have been download from our research group here at UMW.    These apps include ice cream addition, short vowel mahjong and most recently  Where do I live? and Numbers Under the Sea.

Where do I live just came out today and currently has only been downloaded 6 times and Numbers Under the Sea just got approved today and has no downloads yet!

“Where do I live?” is a game that allows children to identify animals and figure out what habitat/biome they live in.

Free and Fun Exciting Game with monkeys, moose, llamas, penguins, lions, bears, and much more.

The Earth has many different environments, varying in temperature, moisture, light, and many other factors. Each of these habitats has distinct life forms living in it. A complex community of plants and animals in a region and a climate is called a biome. This game reinforces habitats and biomes with animals that live in that location.

The game reviews mountains, dessert, jungle, tundra, forest and plains. Many animals in the game live in multiple biomes but only one will appear at a time.

How to play:

On a pedestal an animal stands in all it glory, but it doesn’t know where it lives. You have to drag it to the correct location. Tap on the animal to learn what the animal is, drag it to one of three biomes that are shown on the screen. Keep trying until the answer is correct.