Efter en længere pause er vi på banen med endnu en app. Tekst fra app store:
Har du glemt en vigtig dag eller en aftale? Har du ikke fået ringet? Råbte du lidt for højt?
Sig undskyld! Du kan vælge mellem 100 forskellige poetiske, skøre, filosofiske eller pjattede tekster. Du kan også komponere din helt egen ved at trykke på ‘finurlig’ knappen, der blander dele af teksterne på nye dybsindige eller dybt sindssyge måder.
Another app in the lineage of the German Noun Trainer and the Chinese Sign Reading Trainer. Text from the app store:
Would you like to master irregular english verbs better? Fire up the English Verb Trainer for a few minutes every day. For each verb, you get to choose between the correct past or perfect form and two wrong forms, again and again until you know them all by heart. The program trains the 150 most used irregular verbs – with a few regular ones thrown in to keep you on your toes.
English Verb Trainer Screenshot
I really want to make an iPhone app for practicing the writing of chinese signs, but programming the hand writing on the screen is a wee bit complicated, so I have opted for starting with a sign reading trainer. You get one chinese sign at a time (the most common first), and three possible pinyin transcriptions to choose from. The signs alternate, and if you read a sign correctly several times, you will see it less and less often. The program is modeled very much on the german noun trainer. I have not given up on making a sign writing trainer. This is really more needed, I think, since it is much more challenging to learn to write the signs than to read them. Stay tuned!
Chinese Sign Reading Trainer Screenshot
We started out by focusing on learning apps for recall tasks, so far Times Trainer and German Noun Trainer (a german preposition trainer is still under construction). And so we chose the name Ipamki Recall for our little venture. Well, we have now drifted into more entertaining apps, Tell a Tale and Mad Love (in review in the app store as I write this). So now it is Ipamki Everyday.
Astrids måske bedste app idé til dato: anvendt cut-up poesi, inspireret af billedbogen Bland selv eventyr. Tryk her for at komme til app storen.Tekst fra app store:
125 kærlige beskeder, der kun venter på at blive sendt til en du holder af. Med et tryk på en knap får du en sjov og poetisk tekst, klar til at blive sendt som SMS. “Finurlig” knappen skaber ny og overraskende kombinationer. Det har aldrig været så nemt og sjovt at sige: jeg elsker dig.
Tekst fra Jeg elsker dig
Cut-up tekst fra Jeg elsker dig
Possibly the best app idea from Astrid so far. The app contains 125 unique love poems you can send by text message, plus an option to mix up the texts. Link to app store is here. App store text:
Is there someone out there who deserves a fun and poetic love message from you? Mad Love is the answer. Each of the 125 regular messages (25 for free) is a small poem for your loved one; the random option mixes them up for a new, unexpected meaning, or no meaning at all. For the erring herrings of love.
Mad Love screen shot
Der skal også være en dansk udgave af Tell a Tale, og den er tilmed ganske gratis, i hvert fald indtil videre. Her er link til app store. Teksten fra app store:
“Sæt jer sammen med børn og venner og fortæl historier på skift. Fortæl fortæl er et univers af ord og billeder, der kan få fortælleglæden til at blomstre hos alle. Du får den første og den sidste sætning af en historie og dertil kommer tre billeder. Så er resten op til dig. Er du sjov? Er du god til at finde på? Kan du få det hele til at hænge sammen?
Fortæl fortæl kalder på fantasien, men udvikler også din evne til at strukturere og disponere, til at bygge op og runde af.
Fortæl fortæl fungerer på mange niveauer og kan bruges af både børn og voksne.
Koncept og tekster af Astrid Heise-Fjeldgren”
Konceptet er stadig under udvikling, så vi modtager meget gerne forslag til forbedringer til astrid@ipamki.com (vi modtager også gerne uforbeholden ros). Hvis du har lyst til at se din egen tegning eller dit eget foto i en senere udgave, er du meget velkommen til at sende den til astrid@ipamki.com. Vi kan ikke garantere, at alle bidrag bliver brugt.
Fortæl fortæl screenshot
Tell a Tale screenshot
Astrids creative brain came up with this app which is really wonderful, in my totally unbiased opinion. You sit down with the kids or friends, and take turns making up a tale. The app gives you the first sentence, the last sentence, and three pictures which must be woven into the story. Fodder for the imagination, fertilizer for the creativity. The free version contains 25 texts and 23 images, upgrade to the full 100 texts and 93 images for a mere $0.99.
OK, just wanted to share the first app store reviews with any readers out there. Believe it or not, we did not write them ourselves.
Times Trainer:
Very good for practicing math – ★★★★★
by - Version 1.0 – 27 August 2011
Loved it.
German noun trainer:
Addictive and Easy App for learning and practicing genders – ★★★★★
by Kids Learn – Version 2.1 – 07 September 2011
This app is fantastic for learning German noun genders. It s not designed to teach you the meaning of the nouns, but to make learning the genders painless. If you already know a lot of German, but still mess up your genders, this is the app for you! It is so simple, yet effective, and you can use it in short spurts when you have a few minutes to spare. As the screen shots show, you just touch which gender-noun combination you think/guess is correct. If you are right, it lights up green and bings. If you’re wrong, it is red and the correct response is shown. You will see the noun again and again, mixed in with other nouns, until you “master” it by getting it right a certain number of times. It will even show up later as a review. The app keeps track of the number of nouns “mastered.” If I want to look up the definition of a noun, I just switch to the bab.la English-German app, which is free, and then switch back to the gender trainer and pick up right where I left off. A word on the effectiveness — because of the instant notification of whether you are right/wrong, the repetition, and fast nature of the app/game I find that the genders are really “sticking” now. This is way better than flashcards or anything else I have tried. A word on the nouns included in the app — they are common nouns used in most conversational German along with nouns used in business. An earlier version of this app had some issues with resetting to the first word, but this new version works like a charm. It has kept track of my progress through powering the iPod off and even updating the app itself. Thank you so much for this wonderful app!
This App was created on request from Astrid. She speaks german pretty well, but she is annoyed that she can’t remember the gender of all the nouns, since this is crucial for speaking german correctly. The App is very simple; it presents one noun at a time, and gives you the choice between the three genders. If your answer is wrong, it shows you the correct answer and poses the same problem again. It you answer correctly, you get a different noun. The noun you answered correctly is pushed back in the list, so you get it again a little later. The more times you answer a given noun correctly, the further it is pushed back in the list, so you get it less and less frequently. After 4 correct answers for the same noun, it is counter as mastered, “gemeistert”. The program holds over 2500 nouns, with the most frequently used nouns trained first.
