As promised last week, my Friday posts are all about “fun”. Although, I am not sure how “fun” this particular game will be for people like me – who are spatially challenged. Move the Box is a free iPhone app that requires logic and visual reasoning skills. I have been trying to work on the … Read more
I thought I would post about something light, but fun, today. Recently, in Parade Magazine, there has been a new feature by Ken Jennings, the Jeopardy champion. It’s a puzzle called “Kennections“, and it is pretty challenging. “Kennections” gives you 5 trivia questions. To solve the puzzle, you must answer the trivia questions and figure … Read more
In yesterday’s post about the iPad app, Daisy the Dinosaur, I referenced some ways to introduce kids to computer programming. For those of you who want to pursue this further, I thought you might like this post by Marshall Brain, “Teaching Your Kids How to Write Computer Programs”. This is a fairly detailed summary of … Read more
Daisy the Dinosaur is an iPad app that teaches basic programming to young children. It has a Challenge Mode, in which the user is given 5 challenges that increase in difficulty, beginning with programming the dinosaur to walk forward. In Freeplay Mode, the user can experiment with several different commands, including making Daisy grow or … Read more
For the summer, I have decided to use my Tuesday and Thursday posts to reblog some of my favorite posts that some of my readers may have missed the first time around: Windosill is an app for the iPad for $2.99. A free version is also available online, though you would also have to make a purchase … Read more
