Miracle of Life

Miracle of Life is a fantastic iPad app designed to teach kids about the human growth cycle and development.  This is done in a tasteful and educational way through the use of interactive games, animations, and illustrations.  This app is ideal for Health teachers and parents and focuses on the 3 stages of development such as: fertilization, gestation, and growth.

I highly recommend checking out Miracle of Life by clicking here!!!

*Miracle of Life is a paid advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

Zocial Books

Zocial Books is a nice search engine for finding books.  The results give nice thumbnails and description of the book w/ detailed bibliography details.

I recommend checking out Zocial Books by clicking here.

Lingual

Lingual is an exciting new multi-lanugage learning iPad app that is under development (via Kickstarter program) by Tiny Factory.  This is done through innovative game play that has players visiting different landmarks to not only help teach the language but geography and culture as well.  It is a part of a Kickstarter program which is looking to fund their efforts and release the app this Dec.

I highly recommend checking out Lingual and even supporting it by clicking here!!!

Spanish Verb Chart

Spanish Verb Chart is a an excellent interactive chart/application for verb conjugation.  This chart helps people learn the Spanish language by illustrating the 14 basic verb tenses of the Spanish language.  Also, it is ideal for Teachers of the Spanish language and can be used on any iOS device.

I highly recommend checking out Spanish Verb Chart for those wanting to teach or learn Spanish by clicking here!!

BoomWriter

BoomWriter recently released a new press release on their free book giveaway...


"Let your students work collaboratively to write a book using BoomWriter, a 100% free and easy to use education technology, and we’ll publish it and give you one free copy to share with your class.  We’ll even pay for the shipping!  This will be a great opportunity for you to integrate more literacy and technology into your instruction while also providing a chance for your students to become published authors.  The students will love seeing all of their names in a real published book that they worked together to create!  Register now for free at http://www.boomwriter.com/schools to get your students writing that book!"

10 Sites for Educational Documentaries

"Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. (Wikipedia)"  Documentaries are used in education all the time to educate and inform students about different nonfictional topics.  While there are a ton of sites to choose from, I've decide to curate this list to make it easier for educators to find what they are looking for.

*This list is in alphabetical order.

10 Sites for Educational Documentaries

1. Chockadoc - A nice site for finding documentaries w/ an educational category where people can rate videos as well.
2. Documentary Heaven - A great place to find 1000's of documentaries on a wide variety of subjects.
3. Documentary Storm - A fun community for finding documentaries rated on a 6 star scale.  Users have the ability to leave comments and collaborate w/ others.
4. Documentary Tube - A wonderful place to find documentaries where users can save documentaries by creating playlists.
5. Documentary Wire - A simple site w/ lots of educational documentaries to browse through.
6. DocumentaryZ - A great place to find free documentaries where people can search by most popular, subject, or best rated.
7. Free Documentaries - This is a excellent place to find political and educational documentaries.
8. John Locker - A nice place to find documentaries where people can rate and upload videos as well.
9. Snag Films - One of the most popular sites for finding documentaries and independent films.  Also, people can share these films and view on a mobile app.
10. Top Documentary Films - A terrific site w/ lots of documentaries to search through where users have the ability to leave comments.

Tackk

Tackk is a site I just learned about from one of my favorite blogs, The Educational Technology Guy.  This site reminds me a bit of Glogster as it is a place to create a page w/ multi-media content.  A person can add text, images, embed items and more.  Once a board is finished then can then share it via a URL.  These boards do get erased over time but if a person creates a free account then can then save it.

I recommend checking out Tackk by clicking here!!!