by Barbaree | Nov 4, 2011 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
Folds and Faults provides an illustrated overview of two significant topics in geology: folds and faults. Understanding folds and faults helps to explain how mountains form, how layers of rock change shape over time, and the underlying cause of earthquakes. This app...
by Barbaree | Oct 24, 2011 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
75,000+ how-to articles from wikiHow, the wiki how-to manual. Plus an emergency survival kit stored for offline use. Bonus feature: The application includes the ‘wikiHow Survival Kit,’ a collection of articles to get you through life’s most difficult situations....
by Barbaree | Oct 17, 2011 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
The basic version of SkySafari 3 shows you 120,000 stars, plus 220 of the best-known star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the sky. It displays the Solar System’s major planets and moons using NASA spacecraft imagery, and includes the best-known asteroids and...
by Barbaree | Oct 10, 2011 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
“Oh, Ranger! ParkFinder is great for finding your next destination while you’re in transit or on the trail. Even if it weren’t free, Oh, Ranger! ParkFinder would be well worth downloading.” – Bob Tedeschi, The New York Times “Oh, Ranger! is...
by Barbaree | Oct 3, 2011 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
Looking for a new educational app? Or planning on spending time with your kids to explore how amazing our world is? Let us introduce to you our renovated educational app Geo Walk – 3D World Fact Book. Open the app and start discovering the wonderful world around...
by Barbaree | Sep 21, 2011 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
Skyview is a stargazing app that implements augmented reality to “explore the universe.” Have you ever wondered where the constellations are? How about the planets? Or where the sun and the moon will be at certain times of the day? This is a great app fpr those of us...
by Barbaree | Sep 9, 2011 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
Geology AZ is the Arizona version of the first GIS (geographical information system) for the iPhone. This initial release focuses on the geology of the Grand Canyon state, and related data. Geology AZ is completely self-contained, which means that it is always...
by Barbaree | Sep 2, 2011 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
Do you recycle? iRecycle! Recycling is the easiest and most accessible way to get people plugged into sustainability. iRecycle provides access to more than 800,000 recycling and disposal resources for more than 240 materials, plus the latest in green news to match...
by Barbaree | Aug 6, 2011 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
Project Noah was launched out of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in early 2010. It all started off as an experiment to see if they could build a fun, location-based mobile application to encourage people to reconnect with nature and document local...
by Barbaree | Jul 8, 2011 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
Since GISetc is headquartered in “tornado alley” – we love our weather apps! This free radar app will center over your location and provide you with accurate, real time weather scans. Now in the top 5 most popular weather applications, with over...
by Barbaree | Jun 24, 2011 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
With funding from the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with HASTAC, the WildLab piloted a program in NYC schools that engaged learners in real scientific data collection. Using iPhones, over 500 5th- through 12th-grade students collected thousands of GPS-tagged...
by Barbaree | May 26, 2011 | Apps We Love, Cougar's Corner, Our Blog
The Ultimate World Quiz makes learning fun and easy. Why buy multiple apps when you can have one that does it all? This app combines both game play with a reference resource of facts on every country in the world into one easy to use application.