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App Smashing

This list once you click on the title of each app will take you directly to the app store to download the app. Please note that MOST are free, but not all!

Pic Stitch

Quickly combine multiple photos into one beautifully framed picture.

Pic Stitch packs a simple design with a powerful editor to give you everything you could possibly want to make your photo's simply amazing.

Share your masterpiece on your favorite social media networks including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Or order prints from your local Walgreens for in-store pickup.

Use Pic Stitch to create a before-and-after sequence, combine great photos of each of your kids, or produce a photographic series.

  • Features *
  • Up to 232 different layouts
  • 15 different photo aspect ratios (1x1, 4x6, 3x4, 5x7, 9x16, etc)
  • Order prints to be picked up at Walgreens in about an hour with QuickPrints.
  • Export to Instagram, Dropbox, Evernote or any other installed application that will accept JPEG images.
  • Customize photo borders (Borders Add-On Pack only)
  • Easy to use UI
  • Amazing photo fx filters
  • Pan, rotate, flip, mirror and zoom
  • Share onto Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Path and More
  • Save to photo album
  • Share via email
  • High resolution export
  • iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iPod Touch
  • iPhone 5s and 5c compatibility
  • iOS7 compatibility
Instagram

Instagram

Over 200 million users love Instagram!

It's a simple way to capture and share the world's moments on your iPhone. Customize your photos and videos with one of several gorgeous and custom built filter effects. Transform everyday moments into works of art you'll want to share with friends and family.

Share your photos and videos with friends and followers in a photo feed, or send posts directly to your friends.
Follow what your friends post with the click of a single button. Every time you open up Instagram, you'll see new photos and videos from your closest friends, and creative people from around the world.

Features
• 100% free custom designed filters: XPro-II, Earlybird, Rise, Amaro, Hudson, Lo-fi, Sutro, Toaster, Brannan, Inkwell, Walden, Hefe, Nashville, 1977, and others.
• Video recording with breathtaking cinematic stabilization.
• Linear and Radial Tilt-Shift blur effects for extra depth of field
• Instant sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Foursquare
• Unlimited uploads
• Send photos and videos directly to friends
• Interact with friends through giving & receiving likes and comments
• Full iPhone 4 front & back camera support
• And much much more...

QR Reader for iPad

The most simple & easy QR Reader - 100% FREE.

Now scans QR codes, barcodes and even creates PDF files with the "Scan to PDF" feature.

FEATURES
- Scans QR codes and barcodes
- Browse deals & coupons
- Scan to PDF - turns your iPad into a digital scanner
- Search by keyword
- Scan & Share - scan and share photos & files
- Auto-detect scanning. Simply point & hold!
- Share using email, MMS, Facebook or Twitter.
- Create your own QR codes
- Approve websites before visiting them.
- Export your scans by CSV
- Integrated web browser
- Integrated map viewer

NOTICE Old iPad users - please note that your camera has a fixed focus lens so the real-time scanning will not work in all conditions. Please make sure you are in good lighting and hold the device steady.

Croak.it!

Share your sounds and hear what is happening on the internet!

Convey thoughts and expressions on the go via your voice with just one tap. Whether its a song you are humming, a poem you wrote , a story you want to tell or just your views on the weather, Croak.it! is the easy way to get your voice out there and be heard by the world.

Discover, create and collect 30 second audio snippets ("Croaks") from around the world and follow the people you want to stay updated about.

"Croak.it! It's so amazing, I cannot imagine life without it" - LiteracySparks (@1stgradethinks)

"Just when you think there is nothing left to invent, there is something fun like Croak.it!" - Baixaki.com

Voted in the top 4 free iOS apps by users in the USA in #AppMadness13.

Be the revolution in online interaction. Speak out and be heard today!

Features:
- Create profiles and have all you croaks stored in one place.
- Mark croaks public/private.
- New improved Discoverability Factor Engine to help discover the best croaks.
- Collect croaks in personalized collections
- Share anywhere on the internet
- Follow people you like
- Upvote/downvote to show your feelings about a croak
- Access all your croaks on web https://croak.it

Tellagami

ATTENTION: The app is experiencing issues with voice recording on iOS 8 on a minority of devices. It appears to be an issue with an OS component and we're working with Apple on a resolution. Thanks for your patience. Text-to-speech is an alternative option to voice recording.

Animate your life! Download today!

Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated video called a Gami.

A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. It can be a fun way to tell a story. It can be a thank you message or a vacation postcard. It can be a birthday greeting, party invite or cool way to share photos. The possibilities are endless!

MOBILE-FIRST
• Create, customize and share from your iPhone or iPad with intuitive touch menu and controls
• Use your iPhone or iPad camera to easily insert a photo background or pick a photo from your camera roll
• Doodle on the background with your finger or stylus
• Record your voice with your iPhone or iPad mic

EASY TO USE
Create a Gami in 3 easy steps:
1 - Customize a character and choose your background
2 - Record your voice or type a message for your character to say
3 - Share your Gami on Facebook, Twitter or send via text or email

FEATURES
• Mix and match your character & background
• Record your voice or type a message
• Resize character and place it in the scene
• Personalize with a photo background
• Share via Facebook, Twitter, email or SMS
• View Gami as a web URL on all devices

WAYS PEOPLE ARE USING A GAMI
• Greetings & Invites – Tell a story, liven up a blog, introduce someone
• Education –Teach a lesson, create a book report, share a vacation
• Business & Marketing – Pitch an idea, sell a product, showcase a company

Educators: Download the Tellagami Edu app! Tellagami Edu is a paid version of the Tellagami app loaded with features that allows classrooms to use the app without in-app purchases. Learn more at https://tellagami.com/edu

Skitch - Snap. Mark Up. Send.

See something that sparks an idea? Use Skitch to snap it, mark it up with simple tools, and send it on in an instant. Your bold ideas stand out even brighter with Skitch.

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People everywhere use Skitch to help them visually share their thoughts with others. Here are a few ways you can use it, too:

FOR FUN
Mark up photos of silly, cool, or inspiring things you see and share them via social, email, SMS, and more.

FOR HOME
Annotate photos of your backyard to plan out your vegetable garden.

FOR SCHOOL
Share a diagram of the earth’s layers and have students label it with you

FOR EVENTS
Capture a map, mark it up, and share it with your friends to show them where you'll be.

FOR WORK
Open a PDF and highlight changes to skip the lengthy, confusing email chains and give clear feedback.

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Skitch’s PDF Markup feature requires either an in-app purchase or an Evernote Premium account.

ThingLink

Welcome to the Future of Images.
Make your images come alive with private video, notes, or even music from YouTube.
Holiday, family, interiors, sports, and personal images can be shared privately or with your network on Facebook and Twitter.

PLEASE NOTE! ThingLink is completely free to use.

◆◆◆◆◆ “Whoa, my images become alive! ”
◆◆◆◆◆ “Family photos, music, reporting, traveling... the possibilities are endless”

Use ThingLink to instantly add video and text to images. Create unforgettable greetings, interactive travel photos, and capture best moments. Share images to your friends on Twitter or Facebook — and communicate in new ways.
ThingLink introduces a new, richer way to share the world through photos. Touch the Future of Images. Download the app now and start tagging.

= FEATURES =
√ FREE TO USE
√ Choose or take a picture with your phone’s camera

√ Add interactive tags on your image
- YouTube videos
- Videos from your phone’s camera

- Twitter handles
- Text
√ Share with friends on Facebook, Twitter and Email
√ Browse your own interactive image gallery
√ Join the ThingLink community at ThingLink.com
√ Take advantage of your own channel at ThingLink.com

Note: a network connection is required to use this application.

If you like ThingLink please take the time to rate the app!
It's pretty painless and keeps our boss from making us add those annoying "please, rate us" popups.

Book Creator Free

The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.

  • The no. 1 Book app for the iPad in over 60 countries
  • "Book Creator makes e-book publishing easy” - wired.com
  • Over 6 million books already made with Book Creator
  • One of the Top 50 Apps for the iPad - The Guardian
  • Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award

Try it free to create your first book (with in-app purchase for unlimited books).

Watch the video of Book Creator in action and find out more at www.redjumper.net/bookcreator

Perfect for the home
Use Book Creator to create a personalised story for your child, or arrange family pictures and art into a beautiful eBook. Then pass your iPad to your child and watch their imagination run free!

Perfect for the classroom
"My students loved this app. They felt it was so easy to use, that they could open it for the first time and know intuitively what to do. Having it then go to iBooks and create an individual bookshelf was fantastic."
- Rosey McQuillan, Pre-K-12 Assistive Technology Specialist, Massachusetts

Perfect for designers
"What a great tool! It’s sleek, intuitive, and easy. Being able to design a fixed layout picture book right on the iPad makes total sense. Highly recommended."
- Liz Castro, Author of ‘EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders’

FEATURES

  • Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes.
  • Quickly add pictures from the Photos app, or grab them from the web, then move, resize and rotate them with your fingers.
  • Edit text using the onscreen keyboard, and apply rich formatting to make it look great.
  • Choose from all of the iPad's fonts - over 50 to use.
  • Import video and music, and record speech within the app.
  • Draw and write in your books with the freehand pen tools.
  • Layout your book exactly as you want it with guidelines and snap positioning.
  • A quick tap and you're reading your book in iBooks!
  • Send your books to your friends over email, to iTunes on your computer, over Dropbox, or to a WebDav server.
  • Print using AirPrint or other printer apps, or export as PDF.
  • Export as a movie and upload to the web.
  • With your books created using the international ePub standard you know they will be readable now and in the future.
  • Support for iBooks’ fixed layout format, including double page images and soundtracks. Please note that fixed layout iBooks are not ideal for long texts such as novels.
  • Includes a Getting Started tutorial plus online support articles at www.redjumper.net/bookcreator

A NOTE FOR EDUCATORS

For schools there is a full version of the app called "Book Creator for iPad" with unlimited books and no in-app purchase. The full version is available with a 50% discount under Apple's volume purchase program.

STAY IN TOUCH

Talk with us on www.facebook.com/bookcreator and on Twitter at @bookcreatorapp

TESTIMONIALS

"It’s easy to learn and intuitive to use. This app rates an A+"
– Dallion, Children's illustrator

"The app is super intuitive! I was working on a book for my 7 year old niece (who lives in Brazil) in no time. It took me about 30 minutes to put together a book for her, publish in iBooks and email the ePub file to my brother…to open it up on his iPad…. for my niece to read it."
- Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, langwitches.org

"In my opinion the essential education app for the iPad!"
- Andrew Rhodes, Apple Distinguished Educator and Director of Technology, International School of Stavanger

"Book Creator is a marvellous idea"
- The Guardian

"I’m genuinely excited about this app"
- appplayground.com

"We are very excited about Book Creator... off to layout a kids picture book, then maybe mom’s recipes."
- igoipad.com

Movenote

Present your documents with video.

The Movenote app let’s you record video alongside documents or pictures to create an integrated video presentation with slides.

Creating presentations is easy and fast. Simply record video with your device and swipe to synchronize the slides to the video. Presentations are shared by sending a link to the recipient and can be viewed without the app.

First add the material you want to present to form a slideshow. Add pictures from your photo albums or take them directly with your camera. Alternatively bring a document from your mailbox or cloud storage like Dropbox. Also you can combine material from all these different sources. Secondly, record the video and simultaneously change slides by swiping. The recorded presentation will play out with the exact same timing.

Movenote iOS App Tutorial video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgqdAUYMaA

Stop Motion Studio

Get Stop Motion Studio, the world’s easiest app to get you into stop motion moviemaking today!


As seen on Apple's TV commercial “Life on iPad.”

Stop Motion Studio: Check out the buzz...

"This app has lots of attractive features, making it super easy to get into stop motion video. You’ll have a lot of fun playing with it.”
-Best10Apps.com

“For a buck, with a little creativity and a lot of patience, there’s much fun to be had with this app! Check it out.
-FOX-News: Tapped-In

“...for satisfying the inner animation producer in all of us.”
-148apps.com

“It includes some exciting features.”
-AppRecap

“Let's Make a Movie!”
-technewsworld.com


Want to create movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube? Then this is the app you’ve got to add to your collection.

Create beautiful stop motion animated movies anywhere instantly on your device. Everything you need is right at your fingertips. No computer needed. It's simple to use, deceptively powerful and insanely fun to play with. Create fantastic movies your friends will enjoy or share it with the world on YouTube, Facebook and other sites. Cool themes, titles and sound effects are easy to add, too.

Stop Motion Studio helps you to create terrific stop action movies with a whole host of unique features:
• Overlay mode to show you the differences between frames for precise control
• Grid mode to position animated objects more easily
• Ability to use the volume button on your device to capture images
• Integrated movie editor with frame-by-frame preview at different speeds
• Cut, copy, paste, delete and insert frames at any position
• Automatically capture frames with an adjustable time interval feature
• Zoom in and out on the timeline view so you never get lost, even if you have hundreds of frames
• Fade your movie in or out for a professional look

Do amazing things*:
• Create movies in Ultra High Definition with four times the resolution of Full HD.
• Import pictures from your photo library into your movie.
• Remote Camera: Get a new perspective! Use your iPhone, iPod or iPad as a remote camera connected via a Wi-Fi.
• Movie Effects: Choose from seven amazing effects to give your movie an extra-creative professional touch.
• Green Screen: Change the background of your scene to make the figures you capture fly or appear anywhere you can imagine.

Themes*
• Add movie titles and credits using eight different themes. Or choose from 28 amazing theme and text cards.
• Choose from 22 different front- and background images.

Image Editor*
• Colorize your movie with different paint tools and paint directly onto the image.
• Crop, rotate or flip an image the way you like it.
• Use the magic eraser to magically erase unwanted parts of the image.
• Merge frames together to simulate fast movement.

Full Camera Control
• 4K Ultra High Definition, 1080p and 720p.*
• Camera zoom
• Automatic or manual white balance, focus and exposure control
• Cinema Mode (2.35:1)

Record Audio or Add Music
• Bring it all to life using sound effects at virtually any position in your movie. Choose from more than 40 music and sound samples*
• Add music from your own song library to your movie
• Record audio or voiceover directly to your movie
• Adjust the volume of any sound track
• Import audio from Dropbox or any other app.

Export
• Export your movie in up 4K UHDTV quality
• Export as animated GIF
• Export in square format for Facebook or Instagram
• Export all images
• Project Import and Export

Share Your Movie on the Web and in Your Home
• Built-in in movies gallery
• Publish directly to YouTube, Facebook, DropBox or iCloud
• Use AirPlay to stream directly to your TV
• Transfer your movies to your computer
• Built-in parental controls to manage access

  • Optional feature. Requires in-app purchase. All features are already included in Pro version.
Green Screen by Do Ink

Featured in "Best New Apps in Education" in iTunes. Green Screen by Do Ink makes it easy to create incredible green screen videos and images right on your iPad. Classroom-tested by kids and teachers, this app emphasizes ease-of-use and simplicity while still enabling you to get fantastic results. With Green Screen by Do Ink, you can tell a story, explain an idea, and express yourself in truly creative and unique ways. 

You know what a "green screen" effect is, right? It's used in the movies to make it look like the actors have landed on an alien planet, and it's used on TV to make it look like your local news announcer is standing in front of an animated weather map. The green screen effect works by combining images from multiple sources into a single video. These images can come from photos or videos in your camera roll, or from the live video camera. 

Green Screen by Do Ink has all the features you need to make great green screen videos, including:

• use the live video camera, or import prerecorded videos, photos, and artwork
• combine up to 3 image sources at a time
• record videos in high definition (720p) or standard definition (480p) formats*
• capture still images and save them to the camera roll
• scrollable timeline makes it easy to sequence your videos and photos
• add as many image sources to the timeline as you’d like!
• move image sources around on the timeline
• trim videos on the timeline to keep only the parts you need
• mix audio tracks from your videos and from the live camera
• easy color picker tool to set the chroma key color
• use the front or back camera
• preview your video before you save it
• save recorded videos to your camera roll (and from there to YouTube, email, etc.)
• create multiple projects and reusable templates

Making videos with Green Screen by Do Ink is really fun, and you can use it to make movies that entertain and amaze. But there are loads of practical uses for this app, too! Use it to explain ideas visually, to make more compelling presentations, to tell stories that engage your audience. Whether it’s for fun, for school, or for work, Green Screen by Do Ink makes it easy to express yourself in a unique and captivating way.

Tips for Getting Great Results

You can make a decent green screen video under less than ideal conditions, and you can make a really great video by taking a few extra steps:

  1. The quality and color of the backdrop you use makes a difference. Your results can be improved if your backdrop is a bright, fully saturated color and if it's made from a matte, non-reflective material. You can find an inexpensive green muslin backdrop online by searching for a "green screen backdrop".

  2. Good lighting helps. You don't need special "movie lights", but you'll find that your results improve when your backdrop and subject are well lit. Minimizing shadows on your backdrop can also help considerably.

  3. Make sure that objects in your video (including people and clothing) aren't similar in color to your backdrop - otherwise, they'll be transparent!

  4. Consider mounting your iPad on a tripod or stand. Holding your camera still while recording in front of a green screen can improve the quality of your video.

  5. Experiment with the chroma key color and sensitivity settings. Getting them right makes a big difference.

*Note that the front-facing cameras on iPad 2 and 3 models don't support 720p video; in this case, the app records video at a lower resolution and scales it up.

Created by the team behind www.doink.com, an animation site of 400,000 users worldwide who created 2 million pieces of art, as well as Do Ink Animation and Drawing for the iPad, featured in App Store Essentials: Painting and Drawing" and recipient of the Editor's Choice Award from Children's Technology Review, and Doink Express, an iPhone app for quickly creating animations with photos, drawings, art "props" and sound.

Please send any suggestions, feedback or questions to support@doink.com.

TouchCast: an interactive video camera and player

Video and the web are coming together. Experience both like never before with TouchCast: a new medium that looks like video, but feels more like the web.

A TouchCast is a video that is fully browsable, responsive, and alive. Webpages, images, and an assembly of video Apps (vApps) can be tapped for a two-way video experience.

It's a TV studio in your hands. Create broadcast-quality videos with a built-in teleprompter, green screen, visual filters, sound effects, and titles. Watch TouchCasts from the app or online at TouchCast.com.

Our Mission is to bring the wonder of the web to video and usher in a new age of expression. Anyone can easily create professional-quality videos that finally behave like the rest of the web.

Explore videos, express yourself and engage viewers in a whole new way.  We invite you to try TouchCast and help define this new medium. 

Please let us know you're feedback as we strive to improve the experience, including what features you would like to see in future versions.

Here are the early returns from media reviews:

"TouchCast lets people create and watch videos that are layered with
live Web pages, YouTube clips, Twitter streams and other digital
touchpoints that viewers can expand, manipulate and turn on and off with their fingers."
—AllThingsD

"The idea is to offer a powerful video creation tool that doesn’t
require all the work that video editing normally does"
—TechCrunch

"As a video creator, you can create pretty rich, professional-grade
broadcasts directly from your tablet in seconds"
—The Next Web

"Compared to a typical webpage, with its dozens of clickable links and widgets, the average video might as well be trapped behind Plexiglass. That’s the problem that . . . TouchCast set out to solve"
—Forbes

"TouchCast only wants to completely reinvent the look and feel of the Internet."
—AdWeek

The Hour of Code is coming

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries and over 30 languages. Ages 4 to 104.

Kodable: Programming Curriculum for Kids

Teach kids 5+ the basics of any programming language using a fun game and classroom friendly curriculum. Get the FREE App with lesson guides and teacher tools.

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Kodable

Kodable

Kodable is a free educational iPad game offering a kid-friendly introduction to programming concepts and problem solving. For kids ages 5 and up, and tools for grownups too!

LOST IN PLACE
The fuzzFamily crashed their spaceship on Smeeborg and need your help to explore the planet's Technomazes. Use your finger to drag and drop instructions for your fuzzes to follow. Then hit Play to watch them roll through the maze with curiosity. BEWARE: Fuzzes are very LOGICAL and will follow every command exactly as you tell them! Get rewarded with stars, coins, and even EXTRA members of the fuzzFamily as you successfully complete mazes.

Beautifully designed with little ones in mind, Kodable comes free with 45 levels of programmable fun! You can unlock additional worlds with in-app purchases, or get them all with our educational app Kodable Class.

Teaching with Kodable or using Kodable in your classroom? Create a free Teacher Account and get access to education features and 25 student profiles! Be sure to check out Kodable Class, our app designed specifically for educational use. For $5/month you can get all of our education features and 50 student profiles.

1) SMEEBORG — (FREE IN KODABLE or with Kodable Class Subscription)
- Learn to solve problems (especially fuzzy ones) in sequential steps
- Include conditional statements like "If this, then that" to do even more
- Add loops: commands that repeat a number of times
- Lead fuzzes through 45 linear & logical labyrinths they'll love

2) FUNCTION JUNCTION — (IN-APP PURCHASE or with Kodable Class Subscription)
- A second world packed with 30 additional mazes
- Extra fuzzes to add to your collection
- Learn to (re)use functions more than once for smarter coding
- Find out what happens when you combine functions and conditions!

3) BUGS BELOW: DEBUGGING MADE FUN — (IN-APP PURCHASE or with Kodable Class Subscription)
- 30 more levels in which you must avoid (or squish) bugs that prevent your Fuzzes from exploring
- Learn to debug by helping the fuzzFamily fix their code
- Use critical thinking to spot problems and prevent future bugs
- Unlock 4 new Fuzzes - diamondFuzz, rubyFuzz, coleFuzz, and the lovable shadowFuzz

4) FUZZY FUN (IN-APP PURCHASE or with Kodable Class Subscription)
- Fun activities to boost all aspects of your child's learning
- Fuzzy Spelling: kids spell key vocabulary words.
- Fuzzy Matching: kids match vocabulary words to symbols used in the game.

WHY CODE WITH KODABLE?
Even before your children can pronounce the word "algorithm" they have an astounding ability to learn how to use them. Today's best programmers fell in love with coding at a young age by experimenting with the concepts taught in Kodable. Understanding the basics of programming empowers your child for the jobs of tomorrow, and expands your child's mind to solve problems today in more intelligent ways.

KODABLE HAS A LOT FOR GROWNUPS, TOO
- Settings to lock and unlock levels for your kids
- Send questions directly to the Kodable team
- Programming resources for grownups teaching kids to code
- Kodable Learning Guide, a full-featured lesson plan for teaching with Kodable. The Smeeborg Learning Guide is free, so check it out in Teacher Mode!

Hopscotch, Programming Designed for Everyone: coding for kids

2013 Parents' Choice Gold Award winner
2014 Children's Technology Review: Best Educational Technology
Featured by Apple in Education and Kids
Hopscotch is programming designed for everyone. Kids can use simple, intuitive building blocks to create games, animations and apps in this colorful, interactive environment.

Program your characters to move, draw, and collide with each other, and use shaking, tilting, or even shouting at the iPad to control them.

Hopscotch is available on the iPhone and the iPad. You'll be able to create and play projects on the iPad version and play projects on the iPhone version.

Praise from our users:

“I totes adore Hopscotch! I feel like it has helped me learn a lot. I want to be an engineer and computer techno person when I grow up.” —Genesis, age 11

"This is the best app I have ever put on my kids' iPads."
—Bill Genereux, Digital media technology teacher and dad

"BTW, Hopscotch is so much fun! I went to Hawaii and for the whole 8 hour flight I played on it. The whole time! Thanks for being so awesome!!!!! :D”—Amara, age 9

"Great job!!! I'm seventy two years old, old - time amateur Apple II programmer and I used to teach my kids how to program with Logo. Now, I do the same with my grandchildren, using Hopscotch."
—P. Chatzisarantis, Grandfather

"You guys are incredible. I've never seen such a simple and powerful learning tool.” —M. Meyers, science and programming teacher

Why learn to code? Computer Science is among the highest paid college degrees and programming jobs are growing at 2x the national average. By the year 2020, there will be a projected 1.4 million computer jobs but only 400,000 CS students. Even if kids don’t grow up to be programmers, the problem solving and critical thinking skills they will obtain playing Hopscotch are necessary for every career path. Hopscotch was inspired by MIT’s Scratch.

Recommended for kids ages 8 to ∞.

Learn more about us at gethopscotch.com

Daisy the Dinosaur

Learn the basics of computer programming with Daisy the Dinosaur! This free, fun app has an easy drag and drop interface that kids of all ages can use to animate Daisy to dance across the screen. Kids will intuitively grasp the basics of objects, sequencing, loops and events by solving this app's challenges. After playing Daisy, kids can choose to download a kit to program their own computer game.

Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

ScratchJr

With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.

By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.

ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development.

ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Code-to-Learn Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications.

If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Code-to-Learn Foundation (www.codetolearn.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.

Lightbot One Hour Coding

Get kids programming in the most fun way, by playing an actual game!

Lightbot One Hour Coding is meant to introduce kids who have no experience whatsoever programming, and is all-ages friendly! That means anyone anywhere from K to 12 can play, have fun and learn real programming logic!

Lightbot is a programming puzzle game: a puzzle game that uses game mechanics that are firmly rooted in programming concepts. Lightbot lets players gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts like instruction sequencing, procedures and loops, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels.

Lightbot One Hour Coding is created specifically for The 'Hour of Code', a nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week [csedweek.org] and Code.org [code.org] to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming.

Parents and teachers worldwide are choosing to use Lightbot when first introducing their students to programming.

Lightbot One Hour Coding features 18 levels and is suitable to play for players of any age. The full version of Lightbot features 40 levels for when you want more of a challenge!

This version of Lightbot lets you play in English, French, Russian, Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese! Just hit a flag icon corresponding to the language in the game.