I came across a great free app while searching for the top free apps the other day. I like to look at the top free apps every once in a while to see what is trending. It worked out well for me as I found this great app that was just created by Grasshopper Apps. The app is called
Bitsboard and is a free app with over 10,000 beautiful color photographs separated into categories.
On the initial download you get the emotions, exotic animals, landmarks, first sentences, learn English, learn German and learn Spanish boards. Then you can go to the catalog and download any other boards that interest you. You can also change the settings of the app to best suit your needs. You can have just the word, just the photo and you can also turn the audio on or off. You can also change how the flashcards advance.
The above picture shows how my catalog looks now that I have gone through and downloaded many more of the boards. You can search by category or just page through all of the boards. This app is ABSOLUTELY FREE! No in app purchases whatsoever! How cool is that?
One more thing about this fabulous app, are you ready? You can create your own boards for free with your own photos and images! You can't get any more customized than that! Thanks to
http://www.grasshopperapps.com/
P.S. According to their app page on iTunes, more exciting FREE content and games are in the works for this app! Gotta love that!
Check out this cute girl who visited my speech class today! A couple of my girls have been bugging me to use the Toca Tailor app but I wasn't sure how I could make it work for their therapy goals. Well today we gave it a shot and it was great! We were able to bring in a lot of the describing skills we have been targeting. The girls were able to describe the type of clothing they were putting on the character. We were able to talk about concepts like longer, shorter, long sleeved, short sleeved, and sleeveless. Choosing the patterns of the fabric gave us lots of opportunities to talk about solids, prints, stripes, polka dots and so on. We talked about colors that matched and ones that clashed. The girls had a BLAST! When they were all finished they had to give me the full description of what the character was wearing as well. Then we had fun taking her picture around the room. First here in front of the bookshelf, then between my two students and so on. How about that for making language fun? If you don't have any of the Toca Boca apps, check them out soon! If you use AppShopper to track your wishlist you can get an email or notification when the apps go on sale. That is how I got all my Toca Boca apps for free or $.99!
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