iTunes Store: Top Free Applications in Education

iTunes U - Apple

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

iTunes U
Apple
Genre: Education
Release Date: January 19, 2012

The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.

Features:

Free courses in a wide array of subjects
• Take free courses created and taught by instructors from leading universities and other schools
• See all assignments and updates from the instructor in one place, and check off assignments as you complete them
• Take notes and highlight text in iBooks and see them consolidated for easy reviewing in the iTunes U app
• Access course materials, including audio, video, books, documents & presentations, apps, and new iBooks textbooks for iPad

The world’s largest catalog of free education content
• Choose from more than 500,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects from Algebra to Zoology
• Browse collections from education and cultural institutions in 26 countries — including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, MoMA, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress

Requirements:

• iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 or later
• An Apple ID with an iTunes Store account
• iTunes 10.5.3 or later is required to sync with a computer
• The selection of courses, collections, and availability of content linked from within a course may vary by country
© 2012 Apple Inc.

Phone for Kids – All in one activity center for children HD - Kids Games Club

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

Phone for Kids – All in one activity center for children HD
Kids Games Club
Genre: Education
Release Date: June 16, 2011

★★★ Top#1 Education app in US, UK, and most countries around the world ★★★
★★★ The largest collection of fun educational activities in a single app ★★★
★★★ Over 2,500,000 downloads! Selected New & Noteworthy by Apple! ★★★
★★★ Amazing 24 Educational Games and Activities inside ★★★

✽ Phone for Kids transforms your iPhone/iPad to a complete Child Safe Phone environment. Here they will find touch sensitive menus with no less than 24 unique educational games and activity design to interact, entertain and teach. Phone for kids includes easy to digest educational materials about: Colors, Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Directions, Days of the week, Animals, Drawings and much more. The perfect way to use your iPhone/iPad/iPod-Touch as a complete learning and playing experience for your babies, toddlers and children of various ages.

✽ 24 Amazing Educational Games and Activities inside: ✽
✔ Balloon Numbers - Learn numbers 1 to 20 in a fun balloon popping game
✔ ABC you and me - Type to learn of the ABC’s, hear each letter name in an attractive narration voice
✔ Directions Compass - Learn basic directions with a kids compass.
✔ Animal quiz – Tap the right animal to win score and move to next stage
✔ Touch dial phone – Learn numbers 0 to 9 , including classic phone and colorful kids phone
✔ The four seasons - Learn about the 4 seasons of the year with fun and playful activities
✔ Easy Paint – Draw and learn all 10 basic color names
✔ SMS chat – Text messages to yourself and enjoy a grownup activity
✔ Treasure Map – Improve motor skills in a fun pirates game - catch coins and ships to win score , but try to avoid tapping the pirates or you’ll lose some score
✔ Color Car Race – tap your favorite color car to make drive faster and win the race
✔ Sing and learn - Sing the Do, Re, Me notes with the little girls choir
✔ Color vocabulary – learn color names and spelling
✔ Animal zoo – See, hear and interact with 16 lovely animals
✔ Popup peek-a-boo – Pop the cute animal from its house and a fun and easy peekaboo game
✔ Alarm clock – learn about alarm clock in a fun and simple activation
✔ Shape master – From dot, to triangle, from Hexagon to Ellipse. Find all the basic shapes, see how the look, learn their name and spelling
✔ Color Magic light show – Touch the screen to create an amazing particle driven light show your sure to enjoy
✔ Aquarium wanders – Help fish swim in an amazing underwater environment, motion and touch sensitive. Amazing to look at and fun to interact
✔ Mr. Penguin directions school – Learn directions with Mr. Penguin, where is up, down, right or left?
✔ Math Calculator – Fully functional calculator for kids to enjoy and practice.
✔ 1 to 12 Numbers – See, Hear, Spell and learn the first 12 numbers
✔ Kids Guitar – An amazing colorful guitar with 6 strings, 18 notes and 6 animals to play, sing
and enjoy
✔ Galactic Star Rattler - Enjoy an amazing light show of animations and special effects in deep outer space. A Baby rattle noise maker where something is happening all the time, tapping or sliding fingers creates fun interactions
✔ Days of the week Train - All aboard! The trains is driving through the days of the week

Note: First screen is completely free including all 6 games and activities. Full version including amazing 18 more games and activities is available in a single in-app purchase inside the application.

-NO SOUND?
If the sound is not working, make sure to turn off the mute switch. activate the application, turn the volume up and the sound will work properly.
(you can find the mute switch and volume button on the side of your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch).
© Kids Games Club 2011

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - interactive children’s sing along and activity center : HD - Kids Games Club

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - interactive children’s sing along and activity center : HD
Kids Games Club
Genre: Education
Release Date: June 15, 2011

★★ 8 educational activities & games inside + full interactive Twinkle Twinkle song ★★
★★ More than 1,000,000 downloads, Selected New and Noteworthy ★★
★★ Superb HD illustrations and sounds | iPhone Retina display support ★★

An all in one collection of intuitive and educational games, including the famous “Twinkle twinkle little star” song in a vivid interactive and high quality production. This application provides the perfect place to learn and play in an enjoyable and rich environment.

✽ INTERACTIVE SING ALONG
Animated, Interactive Sing-Along story book for children - The famous “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” song comes to life in an interactive rich song and dance experience.
✔ Rich animations and activities on all pages
✔ Full sing along
✔ HD quality graphics and sounds

✽ COLORING BOOK
Enjoy the twinkle star coloring page and amazing coloring pages of the zodiac signs.
✔ Select between 10 different colors
✔ Fill area with paint bucket
✔ Interactive, animated drawing activities

✽ GALAXY PUZZLES
Enjoy a rich puzzle activity while learning spelling and vocabulary. Improve fine motor skills while connecting the puzzles pieces to place.
✔ 3 Puzzle worlds with different items
✔ Learn spelling and vocabulary
✔ Child friendly autocomplete button

✽ 123 COUNT
Tap to count the shining stars. Learn to count from 1 to 10 with the twinkling stars. The stars fly and move on screen - tap them to learn the next number. Each stage another star will be added and the stars will become smaller and more challenging to catch.
✔ learn basic numbers
✔ Enjoy adorable animations during the game
✔ Rewarding environment, no wrong answers
✔ Child friendly autocomplete button

✽ PEEKABOO STAR
Where is the shining star hiding? Fun educational activity for toddlers, practice and train cognitive skills in this fun and addictive hide and seek game. Improve motor skills and Spatial perception.
✔ Engaging and rewarding activity
✔ Fun animations and sounds
✔ Happy and cheerful environment

✽ ZODIAC MEMORY GAME
Intuitive, educational preschool memory matching games. Play the classic memory game and learn the the ZODIAC sign while improving memory & concentration.
✔ Intuitive game levels system
✔ Child friendly autocomplete button
✔ Learn the names of zodiac signs

✽ STAR MAZE
Star maze is an interactive intuitive drawing puzzle. Help the stars find each other across the maze. Draw a line between the stars from one side of the maze to the other, overcome obstacles along the way and solve the puzzle.
✔ Puzzle Painting activity
✔ Interactive animations
✔ Increasing difficulty levels

✽ CONNECT THE DOTS
Connect dot to dot and learn the 12 signs of the zodiac along with their images, names and spelling: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Capricorn.
✔ Tap the dots in the correct order to complete the shape
✔ Child friendly autocomplete button

✽ STAR DIRECTIONS
Tap to make the star fly up,down,left and right. Learn basic directions and orientation.

Carefully designed for babies, toddlers and children of all ages this application is a unique, new and high quality musical production of the song joined with fabulous animated activities and games.
Ideal for an engaging, educational, visually and audibly exciting experience. Turn up the volume and let the family fun begin.

Note: First 2 song pages, and first 2 screens of all games are completely free. Many many more fun screens, activities and features are available with an easy to use in-app purchase inside the app.

-NO SOUND?
If the sound is not working, make sure to turn off the mute switch. activate the application, turn the volume up and the sound will work properly.
(you can find the mute switch and volume button on the side of your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch).
© Kids Games Club 2012

PlaySay Spanish - PlaySay.com

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

PlaySay Spanish
PlaySay.com
Genre: Education
Release Date: May 1, 2012

The fun, social way to learn Spanish. ★ #1 Ranked Education App in the USA! ★

PlaySay is a first-of-its-kind game that connects language-learners so they can have real conversations with pronunciation feedback.

★ "Making learning a language fun" - The Wall Street Journal
★ TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist - TechCrunch

It’s the best way to learn useful Spanish phrases, practice them with a real Spanish partner, and improve your pronunciation!

Great for all skill levels!

★ PlaySay features ★

☞ Practical language: Each conversation that you have will center on real-life scenarios, like introducing yourself, ordering food, and even FLIRTING!
☞ Real native speakers: We’ll match you with native Spanish speakers and you’ll learn from their pronunciation.
☞ Pronunciation feedback: PlaySay uses speech-recognition technology to evaluate your Spanish pronunciation. We’ll tell you if you’re saying it correctly!
☞ Thousands of useful phrases: Each conversation you have will expose you to new phrases that you would actually use if you were visiting a Spanish-speaking country.
☞ Phrase mastery: PlaySay keeps track of the phrases you use and even lets you know when you’ve mastered them. Master phrases to level up and earn rewards! You could even win a trip to Spain!
☞ Play with friends: Have a friend who’s also learning Spanish? Match up and have a conversation together! Listen to each other’s Spanish pronunciation!

★ What's Next? ★

Below are the updates we're working on for PlaySay's next version. Please let us know which you feel are most important to you (or suggest others) so that we may know which features to work on first.

1. Compatible with iOS 5.0
2. More content
3. Faster loading time for 'matches' list
4. Improved 'matches' algorithm
5. Faster loading time for 'friends' list
6. Faster loading time for game dashboard (home screen)
7. Faster loading time for "Create Game"
8. Facebook login screen doesn't ever show once logged in
9. Better dialogue bubble graphics
10. Ability to post your entire conversations (mp3) on Facebook to show off your Spanish skills

We take every review very seriously and do our very best to update the app accordingly. Please don't be shy! We'd love to hear your feedback, questions, etc. Just email us at support@playsay.com.
© 2012 PlaySay Inc.

PBS KIDS Video - PBS KIDS

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

PBS KIDS Video
PBS KIDS
Genre: Education
Release Date: May 12, 2011

Watch videos from your favorite PBS KIDS television series anytime, anywhere (in the USA). “PBS KIDS Video” features more than 1,000 videos from over a dozen top PBS KIDS and PBS KIDS GO! television series, including Curious George, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, Dinosaur Train, SUPER WHY!, Sesame Street and Wild Kratts.

CHILD-SAFE
The app provides a safe, child-friendly viewing experience for all ages. Kids can easily browse and watch videos at home, on the road, or anywhere with a 3G or WiFi connection.

NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK
Every week, the app will introduce your child to a new “Weekly Pick,” a set of fun educational videos that will engage him or her in reading, science, math and more.

PARENT RESOURCES
The app also includes features that parents can access by sliding the “i-bar” to the right:

* Access your local PBS station TV schedule.
* Tap the heart icon to add a show to your child’s favorites list.
* Share videos via email, Facebook or Twitter.
* Learn more about a TV series, such as intended age and learning goals.
* Download related PBS KIDS apps.
* Buy shows from iTunes or PBS KIDS Shop.

GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS
The PBS KIDS videos may only be viewed from within the United States. This is due to restrictions on PBS's license to offer this service.

ABOUT THIS APP
PBS KIDS Video is a key part of PBS KIDS’ commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of children through curriculum-based entertainment—wherever kids are. More PBS KIDS videos may also be found online at pbskids.org/video. You can support PBS KIDS through the selection of other apps and TV shows available in the iTunes Store.

This app was designed by PBS KIDS and developed by Three Pillar Global, Inc.

Users experiencing a problem in which the app is stuck on the loading screen can fix the issue by following these steps:
- Go to the home screen on your device
- Double tap the Home Button to open the list of background apps
- Press and hold on the PBS KIDS Video app
- Press the red X to quit the app
© 2011 Public Broadcasting Service. All Rights Reserved.

SparkNotes - SparkNotes LLC

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

SparkNotes
SparkNotes LLC
Genre: Education
Release Date: March 28, 2012

Get today's most popular study guides for literature, Shakespeare, poetry, philosophy, drama and short stories. Access online or download to your device for use offline. Check in to easily share your location and start a study group right from your mobile. Check-in update will appear on the Place page, your friends' Facebook News Feed and your Wall.

Features
- Access 50 pre-installed study guides in your library
- Hundreds of study guides available for viewing online
- Download any SparkNotes study guide to your mobile device for offline use
- Share what you’re studying and where you are by checking in with a customized post to Facebook
© SparkNotes LLC

Amazing Coloring Studio - Linqsoft Ltd.

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

Amazing Coloring Studio
Linqsoft Ltd.
Genre: Education
Release Date: March 30, 2012

★★★★★No.1 Free Education App in 10 Countries★★★★★
★★★★★Top 5 Free Education App in 42 Countries★★★★★
★★★★★Top 10 Free Education App in 53 Countries★★★★★
Let our little artist have their own studio! Here they can try amazing coloring: easy tap to create perfect colorful pictures filled with crayons, pencils, markers and brushes, as well as normal pure colors.

Can you color in using Cross Stitch? Of course you can! Try it with our latest update - using your fingers, you can create wonderful Cross Stitch pictures and decorate your gallery! The new coloring book "Horoscope" is now also available.

There is also a gallery of your own. Come and display the works on gallery and share your pictures throught by email and facebook.

Features:
- Color using 48-colored crayons, pencils, markers, brushes and cross stitch utensils, etc.
- 12 coloring books with 144 interestingly themed pictures
- Show off your own picture gallery
- Save pictures to camera roll albums
- Send your masterpieces to your friends via email
- Share your art on facebook

Themes:
★Animals
★Girls
★Boys
★Fantasy
★Nature
★Vehicles
★Secret Ocean
★Holidays
★Playground
★Yummy!
★Fairytale
★Horoscope

Contact us:
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/linqsoft
Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/linqsoft
Website: http://www.linqsoft.com
Email: support@linqsoft.com
© 2012 Linqsoft Ltd.

Kindergarten Addition - I Did It Learning LLC

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

Kindergarten Addition
I Did It Learning LLC
Genre: Education
Release Date: January 16, 2012

KINDERGARTEN ADDITION IS FREE THIS WEEK ONLY

Get the app proven to teach addition to children!
★★★★★ “My kids like practicing addition on this fun app!”
★★★★★ “My 2-1/2 year old granddaughter gets the idea – What better way than to offer the concept of linear addition! It makes sense to a toddler, even! Instructional is easy to understand. Love this app!”
★★★★★ "I really liked this app for our 7-year-old daughter with special needs … With this app, she has finally started counting on her fingers, and even showed us at dinner tonight that 1 finger plus 1 finger equals 2 fingers. This was a big milestone for her.” iheartthisapp.com/kindergarten-addition-a-teaching-tool/

You can also see a full video demonstration of the app at our website: www.ididitlearning.com

Kindergarten addition uses 8 different visual learning activities to teach and demonstrate addition in different ways so the student gains a deep and thorough understanding of addition. This makes the skill become inherent and builds a strong foundation for further math learning in the future. The eighth and final learning activity presents addition with no visual cues or hints so the parent or teacher can confirm the skill is mastered. There is a simple start screen easy enough for children that haven’t started reading yet, and there are visual narrated instructions to all the learning activities. There is a bonus mouse maze stage for kids and there are very detailed visual progress screens for parents or teachers to see how their kids are doing. This application has settings for speaking in either English or Spanish.

The learning activities included are …

✔ Frog Jump Number Line. A frog sits on a lily pad over the first number in the equation. The student then counts the number of jumps based on the second number of the equation. The number the frog lands on is the answer to the problem.

✔ Counting Fingers. Drawings of hands holding up the appropriate number of fingers based on the equation are displayed. The student counts the fingers to find the correct answer.

✔ Ruler Measuring. A ruler is shown on the left of the screen. The student slides pictures of differently-sized objects next to the ruler to see the combined measurement.

✔ Dice. Students count the dots on two dice.

✔ Horizontal and Vertical Math Match-Up. Students match a horizontally written math fact to a vertically written one. When the two equations match, the correct answer is shown on a number line.

✔ Block stacking. The student stacks color-coded blocks next to a number line. Once the blocks are stacked, the height of the blocks determines the answer.

✔ Object Counting. The student counts objects corresponding to the numbers in the equation on either side of an addition sign. As the student taps and counts the item, a number appears.

✔ Final Exam. The student has to solve a math problem without any visual aids from the previous models. Students must choose the answer from a field of 11 (0-10).
© 2011-2012

Toca Kitchen Monsters - Toca Boca

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

Toca Kitchen Monsters
Toca Boca
Genre: Education
Release Date: April 5, 2012

Ever wanted to play with your food? Now you can! In this Monster edition of the super-hit Toca Kitchen you can cook and play with food for two hungry monsters. Pick any ingredient and prepare it in your own way! Slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave or mix? And wait for the response from the hungry monster...

FEATURES
✔ 2 cool monsters - each with their own favorite food!
✔ 8 different ingredients that can be prepared in many different ways!
✔ Season the food - but watch out if you do it too much...
✔ Slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave or mix any of the ingredients
✔ Optional vegetarian mode!
✔ Fantastic original artwork!
✔ No rules or stress - play any way your kids want to!
✔ Kid-friendly interface!
✔ No third-party advertising
✔ No in-app purchases

Toca Kitchen Monsters is not a game - it's a toy where you and your kids get to explore cooking. What happens if you mix a carrot and then fry it? What do Monsters like to eat? Why do the Monsters spit some food out if it is over-seasoned? Toca Kitchen supports free play for all ages and is a great way to use your imagination.

As with all Toca Boca toys, there are no high scores, time limits or stressful music. Your kids can play with it however they want!

If you like Toca Kitchen Monsters – try our other digital toys!

- Toca Kitchen (4 new characters and 12 ingredients)
- Toca Hair Salon
- Toca Hair Salon - Christmas Gift (FREE!)
- Toca House
- Toca Tea Party
- Toca Doctor
- Toca Doctor Lite (FREE!)
- Paint My Wings
- Helicopter Taxi
- Toca Store
- Toca Robot Lab
- Parenting's Birthday Party Playtime

...available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad! Find all on http://www.tocaboca.com

ABOUT TOCA BOCA
Toca Boca is a game studio that makes digital toys for kids. We think playing and having fun is the best way to learn about the world. Therefore we make digital toys and games that help stimulate the imagination, and that you can play together with your kids. Best of all - we do it in a safe way without third-party advertising or in-app purchases.
© Toca Boca

Flashcards+ - Connor Zwick

2012-05-18T14:59:13-07:00

Flashcards+
Connor Zwick
Genre: Education
Release Date: December 20, 2010

***Almost 1 million downloads!!***

Flashcards+ is the world's most popular flashcard app! Designed in association with Harvard University faculty and students, Flashcards+ is an optimized way to learn and retain new information. It allows you to easily create and study flashcards without the hassle of having to buy and write on actual note cards.

What's even better, though, is that Flashcards+ taps into Quizlet.com's vast database of over 8.5 million decks which means, for most cases, you don't even need to create your own sets! Flashcards+ can now even talk with an award-winning human voice synthesizer in 22 languages in multiple dialects and both genders.

Besides the voice packs, this app is entirely functional and free, with NO ADS. My philosophy is that any app for students should not cost money, so download this app and buy a coffee for yourself with the money you saved. Go ahead, you earned it.

Now read below for the features:

-Human quality voice synthesis in 22 languages with support for dialect and gender. Practice your pronunciation and retain more by listening to cards.

-Integrated with Quizlet, the largest online flashcard database with over 8.5 million sets! That means you can spend more time studying and less time making flashcards.

-Auto-Play card audio by double clicking the speaker icon

-Be comfortable while studying. The app supports any orientation you put it in. It tilts for you so you don't have to tilt for it.

-Add custom decks if you're studying something that's never been studied before (otherwise you could be using a Quizlet deck!) Adding decks and cards is made seamless and as fast as possible.

-Study the entire deck list at once

-Keep track of the cards you know by checking/unchecking them and only studying the ones you know or don't know.

-Filter decks to search for a specific card

-Swap front and back side of cards

-Shuffle decks by shaking!

-Intuitive finger motions for study mode.

-Comprehensive help area

-Toggle between auto-magically scaled text to maximize the cards or choose a smaller size to handle any card size or language

-But the biggest standout feature of all...IT'S FREE and I listen and make changes based on what you, the user, wants. To that end, you can download this app confident that it will be getting a bunch of epic features in the coming weeks and months!

REVIEWS:

"This app is absolutely perfect! I hate having to write out flashcards and I am constantly losing them. This app keeps them all organized and I don't have to buy more flashcards! I would recommend this app for EVERY student!" -Manide11

"I down loaded this app onto my 1st-graders iPod touch. This is a great tool. I highly recommend it. We created flash cards for him to practice his multiplication. The cool factor is that you get the look and feel of traditional 3.5 index cards but in a convenient, fun, and portable iPod touch. I can drill him or he can practice alone. Other benefits include, 1) saving money by not buying index cards and 2) It's environmentally-friendly. I am not having to store or dispose stacks of cards once he has mastered the lesson. I'm quite pleased with the results of this app. Oh and by the way, my son recommended the 5 stars. This definitely means that with this app, flashcard-learning is made fun!!" -AskRonnii

"This app is better than the three dollar ace flash cards for two reasons 1. It's free 2. The flashcard interface looks better and more like real flashcards than ace" -Williard Hillem

Once you try it out, drop me a line and let me know how I can improve it. I'm going to be updating this app based on what you think would be great features, so please let me know!
© 2012 Connor Zwick