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Janet Cerni

Top 10 Apps of 2011 | Touch and Go - 3 views

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  • blog “Touch and Go” last June. Since then, we’ve reviewed more than 80 titles.
  • the selections will amuse, entertain, educate, or challenge kids—even after repeated viewings
  • limited my choices to the apps reviewed in this column over a four-month period.
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  • , Touch Press is unquestionably the front-runner among app producers. The London-based company has set out to “forever transform the act of reading,
  • Gems and Jewels, which highlights holdings from Chicago’s Field Museum
  • The Waste Land, which includes a stunning reading of T. S. Eliot’s iconic poem by Irish actress Fiona Sha
  • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (Moonbot Studios).
  • Beware Madame La Guillotine (Time Traveler Tours, LLC), an audio tour of Paris that stops at the French Revolution’s most significant sites
  • Jack Kerouac’s On the Road at an impressionable age. The app (Penguin/1KStudios) offers the complete text of the seminal work supported by a rich variety of print resources, video and audio recordings, and visuals culled from Viking’s archives and the Kerouac estate.
  • Spot the Dot (Ruckus Mobile Media/Unicorn Labs) embodies the medium’s potential to create entertaining educational materials for all children, including those with special needs.
  • . Al Gore’s Our Choice (Rodale), which targets the climate crisis, was first published in 2009, and this app (Push Pop Press/Melcher Media) updates the book
  • video introduction by the author sets the agenda, while a cogent text, video clips, fluid interactive graphics, and spectacular photos address our world’s most pressing environmental issues
  • Nosy Crow’s Cinderella: A 3-D Fairy Tale puts a fresh, modern spin on the classic slipper story. The app features animated scenes and reader-controlled text speed. And if it’s interactivity you’re looking for, this one can’t be beat.
  • Edward Bell’s Journey to the Exoplanets (Farrar/Scientific American) explores the little-known planets beyond our solar system. The app offers many cool options, including a regularly updated “Exoplanet Feed,” animated explanations of key concepts, and gyroscopic views of these far-flung orbs
diane darrow

Finding the Best iOS App for Annotation and Note-Taking - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of... - 1 views

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    Best Note taking apps, great chart with features
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iOS Apps for Productivity and Fun (iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch) - wesfryer - 1 views

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Video Tour - All In Learning - 0 views

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    Scan a bubble test with an iOs device.
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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Automation Release Notes - 0 views

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    "The ability to easily create and share information is an essential requirement for businesses and classrooms alike. Since many computers and mobile media devices now support digital reader applications, the use of digital books as a means of content delivery has dramatically increased."
Janet Cerni

A Gateway to Great Books on Your Phone - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Janet Cerni on 01 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Penguin Classics, that more-than-1,500-titles collection of English-language literary classics, has a new free app for iOS devices available on Tuesday.
  • a catalog of its titles
  • easily searchable database.
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  • find book information by title and author,
  • searching by subject, genre, time period and region.
  • Each book page contains a summary, as well as a link to buy the paperback edition from Penguin USA’s online store.
  • quizzes contained within the app.
  • 65 books in the app that have quizzes associated with them s
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