Leveling the playing field with apps

The issue for many schools and parents is that kids are actively involved in social networking before they have even begun social and emotional learning. Funny Feelings® resources are a fun, interactive way to develop emotional literacy. And the new emotionary app for iPhones and iPod touch, is the latest tool in the Funny Feelings® kit. 

"So many commentators cite the limitations of text as a medium when it comes to expressing emotions. Few recognise the problem is not the keyboard, it is our vocabulary of emotions."

Emotionary is a dictionary of emotions designed for sharing. Start young kids off with the free emotionary lite version that includes the full dictionary and over 70 accurately expressive full-sized emoticons, with the social networking feature deactivated. Then when they are ready to email, facebook, text, they can move on to the full version, and start expressing themselves safely and effectively in text.

> Read&Write Web – With the Read&Write Web toolbar you can access and interact with web content using Text-to-Speech with dual color highlighting. This app includes a Dictionary and Picture Dictionary to look up unfamiliar words, Translator to translate selected words into multiple languages, Study Skills to highlight and extract important pieces of information, and Fact Finder to research on the web.

> eBook Reader –  Allows a user to log into Bookshare, search for, open or save a Bookshare eBook, and read the book aloud with dual color highlighting. You can also personalize speech and reading options.

> Speech – Designed for smaller mobile devices and smartphones, Speech allows users to read aloud any typed or pasted text with color highlighting.

> Dictionary – Another App meant for smaller mobile devices, Dictionary allows users to look up  get both definitions and images and read aloud text definitions.