Daily Archives: November 2, 2014

App Alert

CodeQuest App

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Code Quest

I love creating web pages and used to be a web designer. I’m excited about CodeQuest for Eva. Well be checking out this app together in the near future. If it can help her learn how to code that will be pretty sweet.

New Free App Teaches Kids How to Code Through Storytelling and Gameplay

Today Codarica launched CodeQuest, a free game app that teaches kids how to code, at The Walt Disney Company’s Disney Accelerator Program Demo Day. With the free CodeQuest game for iPad, kids will learn basic HTML and CSS and how to create and style their first website through interactive storytelling and gameplay.

In CodeQuest, kids will progress through ten different mini-game levels, where they will learn about code through engaging stories and lessons, with the goal of creating their own website. Kids will be able to choose between different backgrounds, fonts, lists and colors to code for their personalized website. Throughout the game, kids will be tested on more than 100 snippets of HTML and CSS code. Once a child’s website is complete, parents will be able to publish the site on Codarica’s secure servers and then share it with family and friends.

Key features of CodeQuest include:

  • Interact, familiarize, and play with over 100 snippets of HTML and CSS
  • Test recognition of CSS and HTML tags
  • Mix, match, and uncover over 50 different combinations of frame colors
  • Style websites with over 50 headings and multiple fonts
  • Use the built-in camera to add a photo to the personalized creation
  • Securely publish the personalized, self-coded website on the web, and share with friends and family
  • Parental updates on coding progress throughout the app
  • No third-party advertising
  • No in-app purchasing

CodeQuest is now available for free on the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codequest/id919965565?mt=8.

PBS Kids VIP

Catch Odd Squad a Month Before it Airs

Odd Squad Site

The other day I learned that PBS KIDS has full-length streaming video content and new digital games from ODD SQUAD. That is one month prior to the premiere of the new series on PBS KIDS this November!

The collection of videos will include the most full-length content PBS KIDS has made available to viewers in advance of an on-air series premiere to date. Kids can get a sneak peek of ODD SQUAD by watching six full-length stories, called “Case Files,” for free through PBS KIDS’ streaming video platforms on pbskids.org, the PBS KIDS Video App and on PBS KIDS on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire.

Two new math games, Down the Tubes and Catch the Centigurps, are also available ODD SQUAD’s website. New content, including games and parent resources, will continually be added to the website following the on-air premiere of ODD SQUAD.