prMac serves to enhance the visibility of press releases in the Mac world, offering Mac-centric news media distribution services as well as top-notch RSS feeds. © 2012 prMac http://prmac.com/ en-us http://prmac.com/release-id-43074.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-43074.htm Tue, 22 May 2012 07:10:00 CST demografix pty ltd today introduces School Fonts 1.0, its new educational solution for iOS devices. Suitable for children to adults, School Fonts allows the teacher or parent to prepare lessons using written instructions, unique images and audio instructions, to which the student can respond using written and audio recordings. Students learn shapes, letters, numbers, words and more limited only on what a teacher or parent can create as lessons. http://prmac.com/release-id-42154.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-42154.htm Wed, 02 May 2012 05:10:00 CST Popular desktop application, Fluency Timer, comes to the iOS this week. The app allows teachers, parents, and students to record fluency readings with the push of a button. An adjustable timer automatically stops the recording at the end of a preset time. Recordings can be played back, e-mailed, or transferred to the desktop. Teachers can collect audio recordings as evidence of student achievement and communicate results by sharing recordings with parents and colleagues. http://prmac.com/release-id-42014.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-42014.htm Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:15:00 CST Feraco Media announces special iOS apps for special learners. Bio Regents Buddy, Physics Regents Buddy, US History Regent Buddy, Geometry Regents Buddy, Chem Regents Buddy, Earth Science Regents Buddy, Global History Regents Buddy and Integrated Regents Algebra Buddy are all apps that have these features that could be helpful to all learners. The applications are subject specific and include many different learning strategies, offering interactive lessons and more. http://prmac.com/release-id-41430.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-41430.htm Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:00:00 CST demografix pty ltd. today introduces School Writing 1.0 for iPad, their educational app that allows teachers to prepare, and students to complete, writing lessons using written and audio instructions and responses. This valuable resource for teachers and students provides a platform for learning shapes, letters, numbers, words and more. Packed with content that is easily set to teacher or parent preferences, this application is a powerful learning tool in and out of the classroom. http://prmac.com/release-id-40111.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-40111.htm Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:00:00 CST Day Two Productions has been awarded the national Education Resource Award for Best Early Years Resource for its Traditional Storyteller Apps. The award highlights products that enhance the life or work of teachers, pupils or schools; have a learning impact; and offer cost effectiveness in terms of educational aims and results. With Traditional Storyteller Apps, you can hear the best traditional storytellers on your iOS devices, all featuring a master storyteller talking directly to the child. http://prmac.com/release-id-36181.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-36181.htm Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:25:00 CST Charlotte, NC based SpringMix Games today announced the recent launch of Number Fiesta for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Created to help kids become better at counting numbers, this educational resource provides young players with access to four diverse, vibrantly engaging educational games. Number Fiesta perfectly balances entertainment and education, turning normal tasks like counting cartoon objects, matching numbered cards, and more into game-like experiences that motivates kids. http://prmac.com/release-id-35845.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-35845.htm Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:00:00 CST Intellipad, the app described as, "the write tool for the iPad", by assistive technology specialist, Jane Farrell, announced the release of Intellipad 2.0. Several major updates greatly enhance its function within mainstream and special needs settings. These include text-to-speech and word prediction in three new languages, including French, Spanish and German, the ability to link keyboards to one another, add images to the keyboard, merge cells vertically, add multiple pages, and many more. http://prmac.com/release-id-28576.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-28576.htm Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:00:00 CST Lesson planning just became easier. Focus on teaching your students efficiently with less paperwork using iPlanLessons. This app allows users to create lessons associated with resources and classes. Students are associated with classes. iPlanLessons has a custom database that stores this information which can also be synched with iCal and emailed for record keeping. Finally reports are available to review the lessons by day, by week, and also in a subject by day grid. http://prmac.com/release-id-27796.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-27796.htm Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:00:00 CST California based 24x7digital LLC has released SightWords Pro 3.0, an educational flash-card app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. SightWords Pro is a comprehensive learning tool containing over 1,500 high-frequency sight words compiled from many sources including Dolch, Fry, UK, and AU word lists. Students may tap the sight word to hear professionally recorded American-English pronunciations, swipe flash-cards to navigate the stack of words, and shake their iOS device to shuffle the flash-cards. http://prmac.com/release-id-27151.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-27151.htm Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:00:00 CST Adam Bellow today announces eduTecher Backpack 1.0 for iOS, his free education app for teachers, parents, and students that provides a searchable database of thousands of educational websites. eduTecher Backpack also includes numerous social capabilities for sharing, blogging, posting, and managing ideas, resources, and contacts. Critically acclaimed, the app was cited as, "The best teacher resource for new resources and ideas! A must have." by I Education Apps Review. http://prmac.com/release-id-25883.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-25883.htm Tue, 24 May 2011 03:30:00 CST Mobile Apps for Ed today released Moments Ago 1.0.2 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Moments Ago puts a fast and easy communication tool in the palm of teachers' hands, allowing them to send messages to students in the classroom and quick email reports to parents. Moments Ago serves as a motivator for students to improve their performance and behaviors and keeps parents informed of what their children are doing in school. The app features a free two week trial. http://prmac.com/release-id-24664.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-24664.htm Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:25:00 CST Minnesota based independent developer Daniel Ethier today introduces Gradekeeper for iPad 1.0, his companion app to Gradekeeper for Windows and Mac OS X. Thousands of teachers use Gradekeeper, and now they can work with their Gradekeeper classes on the iPad. Teachers can take attendance, add new assignments and scores, view student progress reports, including category and term summaries as well as easily copy their existing classes to the iPad using iTunes file sharing and more. http://prmac.com/release-id-20284.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-20284.htm Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:00:00 CST Minnesota based Lomation today announces Teacher Studio for the Mac App Store. Teacher Studio is a set of unified tools that was designed by a teacher to help other teachers with their daily tasks. With tools such as a grade book, attendance "sheets", lesson planner, student management, seating assignments, schedules and more, Teacher Studio will simplify their tasks and keep them stay organized. http://prmac.com/release-id-13016.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-13016.htm Mon, 17 May 2010 10:20:00 CST UK based Apps in My Pocket Ltd announces abc PocketPhonics 1.7.2 for iPhone and iPod touch. Parents can now order a free guide to teaching their kids to read direct from their iPhone. The guide explains how the synthetic phonics method of teaching reading works, enabling parents to help their children learn to read faster. The award-winning abc PocketPhonics is one of the best-selling apps for teaching kids to read on the iPhone with over 75,000 sold. http://prmac.com/release-id-12484.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-12484.htm Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:00:00 CST Massachusetts-based Electric Peel Software today announced that they are making their newest application, Ariena, available for pre-order at a 50% discount. Ariena is an upcoming Mac application designed to help music teachers organize their teaching businesses by keeping track of student information, payments, and lesson notes. Ariena can display several reports, such as a list of all students currently owing money, and a list of all payments received in any particular year. http://prmac.com/release-id-10665.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-10665.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:30:00 CST Massachusetts based Electric Peel Software today announces Note-A-Lator and Note-A-Lator Pro, their new line of music reading quiz programs for students and teachers. Note-A-Lator helps students learn to read music by giving them note and rhythm identification quizzes. Note-A-Lator Pro includes all the features of Note-A-Lator, and gives teachers the ability to print out note and rhythm identification quizzes or worksheets to use in the classroom, or to give as homework. http://prmac.com/release-id-362.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-362.htm Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 CST A new major update to the computerized testing software tool starQuiz has been released. The update brings new options for computerized testing that enhance security and productivity while maintaining an easy-to-use interface. http://prmac.com/release-id-362.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-362.htm Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 CST A new major update to the computerized testing software tool starQuiz has been released. The update brings new options for computerized testing that enhance security and productivity while maintaining an easy-to-use interface. http://prmac.com/release-id-362.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-362.htm Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 CST A new major update to the computerized testing software tool starQuiz has been released. The update brings new options for computerized testing that enhance security and productivity while maintaining an easy-to-use interface.