Application: 1,2,3 Sheep (A$3.99 from iTunes)
Last year at the Vitta Conference I had opportunity to hear news about App_tiude, a new application developer who is specifically targeting primary students and schools with their product for the iTouch/iPhone. I received news last week that the first application 1,2,3 Sheep has been launched and is now ready for download from iTunes, and seeing as though they sent me a $10 iTunes voucher to do so, I did.
123 Sheep is a clever and engaging game that was developed in consultation with teachers and has been trialled in schools with students aged 6 and 7. My daughter loves playing with it (she’s in Year One) and I’ll try and coerce her into doing a video review in their near future.
Children explore basic counting concepts in three fun activities – flying a helicopter around the farm, herding sheep into pens and guiding the sheepdog into the truck.
The game difficulty automatically adapts to match their progress, with content based on the school curriculum. Children are drawn to the friendly, detailed graphics, playful audio and lots of humorous encouragement.
There are three fun counting games that this application revolves around, but the interesting extension to this is the ability for it to be used on a class set of iPods with the teacher being able to track and assess each student. As of the time of writing, this functionality has not yet been released but should be shortly.
More information about the company App_titude can be found via their website and you can follow them on Twitter too.
You can find more about the application via their YouTube video;
Popularity: 17% [?]
