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iLearnWith

Posted in Education, Featured on April 2, 2012 by Emma Apple

iLearnWith is a series of 3 (so far) apps that teach necessary basic skills in an easy to learn, multi-level environment. There’s iLearnWith: Animals, iLearnWith Poko: Seasons and iLearnWith Poko: Additions. iLearnWith: Animals This is an excellent game that teaches kids about animals and their habitats. There are 3 levels, each level is the same format but is slightly more challenging than the last. The objective is to make your way across a map and find a character. The way you find the character... Keep Reading »

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iSawab – Islamic Rewards Tracking

Posted in Featured, Islamic on March 10, 2012 by Emma Apple

iSawab is a very comprehensive Islamic Rewards Tracking app, in other words it’s a tool for Muslims to keep track of their daily deeds and to help promote consistency and self betterment in religious practice. To use the app you simply input the deeds you’ve done as you do them, for example, when you pray, tap the Prayer section, then tap the prayer you’ve just completed, it will bring up a box asking if you prayed at home, work or mosque. The app does a very cool thing with this... Keep Reading »

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Toca House

Posted in Featured, Games on February 22, 2012 by Emma Apple

We’ve come to expect great things from Toca Boca, to this day Toca Robot Lab is one of the top 3 games played by the Muslim Friendly Mini-Testers. Toca House does not disappoint. As with all Toca Boca apps, it’s an open ended, relatively simple ‘digital toy’ that is aimed at having fun and learning in the process. You have a family of characters, an older woman, an older yellow hulk-like creature, a girl, a boy and an even younger triangle headed creature. You can get to... Keep Reading »

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Choco Gets a Check-Up

Posted in Education, Featured, Stories on February 2, 2012 by Emma Apple

The newest app from PicPocket books, ‘Choco Gets a Check-Up’ is simply adorable! Author Mary Faulhaber uses several layers of cute and comfortable to introduce an often scary and uncomfortable topic to kids – seeing the Dr! Choco is an adorable, fluffy, sweet Bunny, his school says he needs a check-up so he asks a few friends what that means. He ends up going to see ‘Poppi’ and ‘Nana’ (Grandfather and Grandmother, who are humans), Poppi is a Dr and he gives... Keep Reading »

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Writing Letters

Posted in Education on January 29, 2012 by Emma Apple

Writing Letters is a simple app that allows kids to practice writing their letters on the iPad. I would say it’s more of a digital workbook sort of an app with some multi-sensory features. You have one letter at a time, the app has an audio prompt “The letter A, the sound ‘a’, Apple.” to teach the sound each letter makes and associate it with a word, it also has a picture of the example (see screenshots below). You then trace the letter (which has arrows to show you... Keep Reading »

Tags: Half Apple, iPad, Letters, No Holidays, No Music, No Religion, No Romance, No Violence