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Peter H. Reynolds Keynote at Bank Street College of Education
May 23, 2013
The Evelyn Rome Tabas and Daniel Tabas Auditorium
New York, NYPeter will keynote at the Bank Street College of Education for the presentation of the Irma Black Award. Peter's book, The Dot, won the Irma S. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, in which picture and text are inseparable.
Learn more at the Bank Street College of Education's website.
FableVision Studios' Art Show Open House
June 7, 2013
Boston, MACome see a unique display of artwork from the creative folks at FableVision, mingle with other artists and storytellers, and see our multimedia studio!
ISTE
June 23-26, 2013
San Antonio, TXISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, represents 100,000 members around the world, and is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders.
SKY COLOR at Nantucket Film Festival
June 26 – 30, 2013
Nantucket, MASKY COLOR, Peter H. Reynolds' film is screening at various dates and times throughout the Nantucket Film Festival.
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Tag Archives: apps
“Classic in the Jurassic, Jr.” App Featured in App Store!
Check out our new Dinosaur Train app “Classic in the Jurassic, Jr.” featured this week in the App Store! The app welcomes kids to an adventure with Gilbert the conductor, helping him get Troodon Town ready for a big event!…
Weekly Click August 21, 2012
Well, here we are folks: Mid-August. Summer’s wrapping up so let’s dive headlong into some cool articles that our team has been reading in this season of extended daylight and broken-down subway cars.
App Store Failure and Personal Responsibility
Our…
Weekly Click: May 31, 2012
Welcome to FableVision’s Weekly Click for the week of May 31st, 2012. This week we’re looking at how mobile apps affect children’s brains, the art of apps, and one mother’s in-depth look at Legos, play and gender. Lots to see,…
Weekly Click: April 24, 2012
ExoPC, a French-Canadian startup, has signed a deal with the Panama government to build a grade school physics classroom equipped with 20 touch screen desks, or “EXOdesks.” At the front, the teacher will be set up with an interactive multi-touch drawing board. Each of these interactive pieces of furniture will have stored memory for all books, textbooks, notebooks, and other supplies, accessible from home at any time by connecting to the cloud. Continue reading
Weekly Click: April 19, 2012
9-year-old Caine Monroy of Los Angeles spent his summer vacation building a cardboard arcade inside his father’s auto parts store, spending months preparing, designing his games, and making creative displays. One day, director Nirvan Mullick happened upon the auto parts store looking for a spare part, and walked away with an inspiring idea instead. After playing in Caine’s Arcade, Mullick created a ten-minute short film and due to the virility of the Internet and a bit of luck, Caine is now the recipient of a $70,000 scholarship fund for his college education.
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Weekly Click: April 2, 2012
Feature Article
How Apple Is Changing Kids’ Brains
Children younger and younger are getting hooked on mobile technology, some of them as young as 2 years old! Apple has been marketing its products (namely, the iPad) as an effective and…
Drawsome!
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably played Draw Something. This crazy addictive drawing game caught on so fast and saved the life of a struggling startup company named OmgPop. Over here at FableVision Studios, a company filled to the brim with creative people, you can be sure we’re playing too. Continue reading
Weekly Click: March 21, 2012
In a world filled with millions of apps geared towards kids, the task of knowing which apps are actually educational and appropriate for our kids is impossible! Well, all of this may be history now that Fun Educational Apps released AppStar Picks. AppStar Picks is an innovative app that provides a smart way to discover a catalogue of over 250 best apps for kids that have been thoroughly tested and reviewed. Continue reading
Weekly Click: March 15, 2012
Designing successful apps for children is no easy task. Not only is quality and age-appropriate content hard to create, but designing the flow and interaction of these apps is made more difficult because developers must refrain from implementing advanced gestures, which would only confuse and frustrate kids (and, by extension, their parents, the decision makers of what apps their kids are playing). Continue reading
Weekly Click February 15, 2012
Steven Johnson from Riverhead Books explains “where good ideas come from” and artfully pairs drawings with a captivating audio background and explanation through whiteboard animation, a simple and fun process that is taking storm in the animation and digital media spheres. Continue reading
