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Best of Apps & Enhanced Books: July 2012
Iceberg in Moonlight, South Orkney Islands (Lynch)©Wayne Lynch with permission of Matchbook Digital LLC. Reviews in this column first appeared in SLJ ’s blog Touch and Go. After each review, you’ll...
View ArticleLibrarians, School and Public, Tap the Best in Kids’ Apps | ALA Annual 2012
Talking apps at ALA: Gretchen Caserotti, Amy Graves, Travis Jonker, and John Schumacher hosted a session on using apps with kids in the context of library services, both in public libraries and schools.
View ArticleBest of Apps & Enhanced Books: July 2012
Two exquisitely photographed resources documenting the natural world and a digital rendition of that charming creation by Hervé Tullet are SLJ's top apps if the month.
View ArticleSummertime and the Reading Is Easy: Kick back with a good ebook app or two
Handy tools for reading and ebook discovery that you can enjoy using yourself and perhaps put them to use with students in the classroom or library.
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News Bites: Nominate the Best Curriculum-based Apps
App-ening Best apps: The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Best Apps for Curriculum Task Force is accepting nominations for the best curriculum-based apps. From the ones nominated, the...
View ArticleTop Chrome Apps to Help Students Stay Productive Online
It’s that time. Back to school and an opportunity to investigate some tools for maximizing productivity. Here are the top seven apps for Chrome as selected by Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, “Web Apps Guru” at...
View ArticleSLJ’s Best of Apps & Enhanced Books August 2012
Apps involving monsters, both real and imagined, are among the digital publications examined in School Library Journal's app review column Touch and Go.
View ArticleOnline Bookclubs are Facebook for Booklovers!
This summer, I taught a professional development class for our staff. The goal? To each read two novels and one nonfiction book that we could enthusiastically recommend to our students this year. What...
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Touch and Go Lives!
After a brief hiatus during the transition to our new website, our app reviews are back—with a few changes. First, you’ll notice they have moved from School Library Journal’s blog roll into a column,...
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Touch and Go: Countdown to an Election
Given that this is the first U.S. presidential election since apps have made their way onto most electronic devices, you might think there would be dozens of worthwhile products available on the topic...
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Shakespeare on the iPad
It’s a boon year for students of Shakespeare and thespians: from Sourcebooks, Inc. and Touch Press come interactive resources for the iPad that will change the way readers experience the Bard’s works....
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Touch and Go | Animal Fact and Fiction
It’s no secret children love learning about animals, and picture books about them are some of the most popular titles in libraries. Three apps combining story and facts about animals have recently been...
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Global Education Conference: “Apps Galore”
Photo by Pixland The Global Education Conference, held around the clock November 12–16, offered a wide range of sessions by and for educators worldwide. A highlight: “Apps Galore: Top Tools for Global...
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SLJ’s Top 10 Apps: 2012
More Top 10s SLJ‘s Top 10 Graphic Novels SLJ‘s Top 10 DVDs SLJ‘sTop 10 Tech There’s no doubt about it: app production has skyrocketed. But curiously, a number of children’s book publishers and app...
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Global Issues, Digital Perspectives
Image from ‘Atlas by Collins’ A number of apps address the state of our planet. One of the first produced for students was Al Gore’s award-winning Our Choice (Melcher Media/Push Pop Press; $4.99),...
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Home-Schooled Florida Teen Creates ‘Jurassic’ App
Most kids who are obsessed with Tyrannosaurus Rex end up playing with figurines or poring over dinosaur-themed books. Not Evan Frost. Instead, the 13-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, turned his...
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An Arctic Tale for Digital Devices
With snow blanketing the country there’s not much else to do but pour yourself a cup of hot cocoa, grab your iPad, and get ready for a wintery adventure featuring two boys, a whale, and a polar bear...
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BiblioBoard’s Curated Collections for the iPad
BiblioBoard is a free iPad app providing access to more than 100 curated collections of “licensed, open source and public domain materials” on topics ranging from Punk Rock to The Brothers Grimm....
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Serving Truth, Justice, and Tighty Whities | The Captain Goes Digital
Judging by the enthusiastic reception received by Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers (Scholastic, 2013), released last month, it doesn’t look like the Dav...
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Behind the Scenes with Spielberg’s Lincoln | Touch and Go
In February, in classrooms across the country, educators acknowledge Lincoln’s Birthday and Black History Month, and engage students in conversations about the meaning of these celebrations. The...
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