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Best App Maker 2014 - App Builders and Creators - BusinessNewsDaily. Credit: Bloomua / Shutterstock When searching for the best app makers, we looked for solutions that are affordable and let you create professional-looking apps without having any coding skills.

Best App Maker 2014 - App Builders and Creators - BusinessNewsDaily

We also looked for key features such as pre-made templates, push notifications, social media integration, location-based services, loyalty programs, mobile commerce capabilities, customization options and the ability to create apps for Android devices, iPhones and iPads. Additionally, we looked for app makers that are designed for beginners and offer specific features for retailers.

10 Excellent Platforms for Building Mobile Apps. If you've ever wanted to build an app for your business, blog, product or service, but the heavy investment of both time and money put you off, you're not alone.

10 Excellent Platforms for Building Mobile Apps

The good news is that entering the mobile market no longer necessarily requires thousands of dollars and months of work.

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Let’s Play! 20+ Sites for Young Learners. Part of the Cool Sites series Sometimes, the teachers of young learners get a bad reputation for playing all day in their classes.

Let’s Play! 20+ Sites for Young Learners

Let me tell you a secret. Any great teacher of young learners is definitely playing a lot in and out of the classroom! Play is an important part of development. Socrative. Socrative Space Race - Socrative Space Race.pdf. Game-based blended learning & classroom response system. Online Game Rubric. Top Tens. Here’s a brief description of ten Halloween themed dress up/ monster creator games and a few suggestions on how to use them.

Top Tens

All these games were chosen to tie in with the Halloween theme of trick or treat and dressing up in costumes. You can access them by either following the links or clicking on the image. 1 Make Your Monster In a computer room get young learners (7 – 9 yrs) to make their own monsters and write the description for their monster. e.g. My monster has got green ears and green hands. McGraw-Hill Education Offers Free iPad Math Apps. SimCity 2013 Download. Control a region that delivers true multi-city scale and play a single city or up to sixteen cities at once each with different specializations.

SimCity 2013 Download

Multiplayer adds a new facet to your game as your decisions will have an effect both your city and your region and creates new ways to play by collaborating or competing to earn achievements. SimCity is a city-building and management simulation game for the PC gaming platform that serves as a 2013 reboot of the iconic video game series. As with all games in the franchise, SimCity provides total control of how cities develop, but also adds new features such as: crisp 3D graphics, direct contact with citizens, dynamic real-time in-game units that replace animations representing player actions and levels of citizen happiness, franchise first multiplayer support, and in-game weather and pollution representation.

SimCity allows you to create the city you desire and make the choices that shape your city. Every decision, has real consequences. Play to Learn Course Challenge. Back to Play to Learn course Try out Samorost with a class!

Play to Learn Course Challenge

Deadline: 21 September 2012 Try out the online game Samarost with a class, and win a free place on the new Consultants-E course Play to Learn: Digital Games in ELT (1 – 30 October 2012). What is Samarost? Quandary. The Minecraft Teacher. Back to school.

The Minecraft Teacher

Long time no post. So one day I had this idea to use Minecraft in my class. It worked really, really well. It was transformative for both my students and myself. It was like discovering a new secret power to reach into the minds of kids. And I couldn’t figure out why no one else was doing the same thing. MinecraftEdu. Fort McMoney. Enercities. Atlantis Remixed. Transformational play involves the use of virtual worlds to help people learn and grow in a context where they can fail safely.

Atlantis Remixed

Theory At its core, transformational play is a learning and empowerment philosophy that is grounded in the belief that each one of us is capable of, wants to, and deserves to achieve, great things. Unlike any other form of curriculum, these games offer entire worlds in which learners are central, important participants; a place where the actions of a ten-year old can have significant impact on the world; and a place in which what you know is directly related to what you are able to do and, ultimately, who you become. The theory highlights relations among the three interconnected elements of person with intentionality, content with legitimacy, and context with consequentiality. This stands in sharp contrast to the more traditional positioning of content as facts to be memorized, not as meaningful tools that are necessary for transforming a problematic situation.

Free Online Game Creator. By kylemawer.

Free Online Game Creator

Stencyl: Make iPhone, iPad, Android & Flash Games without code. Room Escape Maker - Create Escape The Room Games For Free. Basic information ROOM ESCAPE MAKER is a free online application to create Escape The Room games.

Room Escape Maker - Create Escape The Room Games For Free

Build challenging casual point and click games with puzzles, hidden objects, safes with combination locks, and much more. YOU are game designer. Second Life Official Site - Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Free 3D Chat. Adventure Game Studio.