Category: games
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The joy of organizing iPad apps in folders (iOS 4.2 update)
Although you might not guess it at times looking at my computer desktop or my “office area” in our house, I like to be organized. For many months now, however, I’ve been overwhelmed with the large number of applications and screens on my iPad. Since our family shares an iTunes library and all our applications,…
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Legos, Creativity, and the Oklahoma City Lego Store
Today at the Creativity World Forum on 17 Nov 2010 in Oklahoma City, I had an opportunity to interview James Gibson at the Lego Store booth. James works at the Oklahoma City Lego Store, and he discussed why Legos are great for encouraging creativity, some things that are special about our Oklahoma City Lego store,…
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The iPad as a TV game controller
This is very cool: An iPhone used to control an interactive game played on a HD television connected to an iPad. It’s hard to believe this game (“The Incident“) is $1.99. (Of course you DO need a $500+ iPad, a $150+ iPhone, and a HD television of uncertain cost…) Still, there’s a big difference here…
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Lessons learned using PowerPoint Jeopardy Template (game)
Today in my “Computers in the Classroom” course at the University of North Texas, we reviewed the PI4BL chapter “Redefining the Beginner.” One of the things I learned last semester, teaching “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma, was NOT to assume things about students’ background knowledge and entering computer literacy skills. This…
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Best games for kids on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
This evening I asked my three children, ages 6, 10 and almost 13, to create their personal “top 10 lists” for their favorite iOS applications. Here are their lists, which I’ve curated as linked lists on Appolicious, starting from youngest to oldest. I asked each of them to share a sentence or two about why…
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Access Flash websites on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch (including Webkinz and Club Penguin)
Addition 8/14/2011: CloudBrowse is no longer free, it was at the time I wrote this post initially. It’s now a $3 app. If there’s one thing my children have lamented more than any other when it comes to iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad technologies, it’s the lack of support for Adobe’s Flash technology. Club Penguin…
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Podcast342: A 12 Year Old’s Favorite iPod Touch / iPhone Games (March 2010)
This podcast from the road features an interview with 12 year old Alexander, who discusses several of his favorite applications and games for the iPod Touch and iPhone. These include InstaPaper, Pandora’s Box, Doodle Jump, F.A.S.T., Civilization Revolution, A Doodle Fly, Angry Birds, Eliminate Pro, and Bloons TD. Alexander shared a summary of each application,…
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Podcast338: Bring Curriculum Alive with SCRATCH by Susan Andrews and Students
This podcast is a recording of Susan Andrews’ presentation, “Bring Curriculum Alive with SCRATCH” at the 2010 METC Conference. The official program description was: Are your students ready to meet 21st Century skills using a fun, simple and free computer programming language to create curriculum related projects? SCRATCH was designed to allow students to use…
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Beatings, Electric Shock and Death for Internet Addicted Chinese Youth
Christopher Stewart’s article, “The Lost Boy” in the February 2010 issue of Wired magazine (not yet available online, apparently) relates horrifying tales of abuse in Chinese “Internet Addiction Camps” for youth. Since 2002 when state-run newspapers started sharing stories about the dangers of Internet addiction, thousands of worried Chinese parents have sent their allegedly Internet-addicted…
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Holiday iPhone and iPod Touch Application Pruning
This afternoon and evening, my son and I worked on “pruning” down our list of installed applications in our family’s iTunes library. In our family of five we now have four different iTunes accounts, but because we sync our iPhones and iPod Touches to the same Mac running iTunes, we are able to legally share…