Our App Of The Day – 02/19/11 – Lola’s Alphabet Train
As our App of Day, all our regular readers know the trailer for this app will feature on every page of our site for a whole day. Just scroll to the bottom of this page to take a look.
Here’s a bit more about this app…BeiZ announces the launch of its engaging educational game for children, Lola’s Alphabet Train, available for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Children can join Lola Panda while she teaches youngsters how to read, spell new words and identify various objects in five enchanting alphabet games. Children start with a “drag and drop” letter game and advance through progressively challenging stages, like “form a word”, as their linguistics skills improve. Offering three difficulty levels for children ages 3-8, Lola’s Alphabet Train can grow with young children as their vocabulary and verbal skills expand.
Taking lessons from proven entertaining game-play mechanics, Lola’s Alphabet Train facilitates learning in children through a compelling rewards system that allows children to choose from a bountiful collection of prizes as they complete each level. The reward system in Lola’s Alphabet Train enhances a notion of motivation called “choice of challenge,” occurring when children experience success and satisfaction in overcoming one challenge and then welcoming another. By applying fun and engaging gaming elements to education, parents will soon see tots picking up Lola’s Alphabet Train to have a great time and essentially learn all on their own.
At an age when children are hungry to learn and retain new information, Lola’s Alphabet Train provides a learning tool that stimulates curiosity, exploration and discovery. Parents will see toddlers gleam with feelings of accomplishment as they triumph over each challenge with Lola Panda, with increasing confidence and self-esteem. Lola’s Alphabet Train is an engaging platform for children to learn on their own as the improved game logic in the app helps bolster retention of newly learned material. As an added bonus, Lola’s Alphabet Train also includes four foreign languages for children to experience and wrap their minds around.
“Lola’s Alphabet Train is a wonderful learning tool for young children, as it has been designed to enhance and refine cognitive abilities,” says Mika Heikinheimo, CEO of BeiZ. “By fusing certain game-play elements with learning, it can ignite interest and engagement amongst young children, making the learning experience a lot more appealing than it would be otherwise.”
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
