For those of you new to this blog, I am devoting Fridays during the holiday season to recommending “Gifts for the Gifted”. You can see the three posts that I have done so far here, here, here and here. You can also visit my Pinterest board on Games for Gifted Students. A lot of these are not just for gifted … Read more
Shadow Move is a free app that I hate. I should probably confess that the apps that I hate are usually the ones that challenge me the most – quite often demanding some kind of spatial acuity that I seem to lack. Also in this category are the apps that become addictive, that I stay … Read more
Factory Balls is a bewitchingly challenging Flash game that I found out about on “Technology Rocks. Seriously.” You have to drag the white Christmas ornaments to the appropriate tools that surround the tree to recreate the colors on the sample ornament. Each level becomes increasingly difficult, as you have to learn how to layer the … Read more
This isn’t, technically, an educational site. But I definitely think that it could be integrated into math classes everywhere, and even high school physics. Remember the movie, Up? Well, Movato Real Estate decided to find out how many balloons it would really take to lift a house. On this site, David Cross explains the logic … Read more
I first learned about the web game, “Refraction“, from Julie Greller’s post on “A Media Specialist’s Guide to the Internet”. Since my 5th grade daughter happens to be knee-deep in fractions right now, I was intrigued by Julie’s description of the game, which involves guiding lasers to power spaceships. I followed her link to the … Read more
The makers of “Draw a Stickman” have just released a new version, “Draw a Stickman Epic“. At this time, it is available for iPhone, iPad, and Windows 8. The Android app is coming soon, according to the developer’s website. “Epic” comes in the free, trial version, or the paid version ($1.99). The main difference is … Read more