Tag: play
National Stop Bullying Day
National Stop Bullying Day is coming up on October 14th – here are some ideas on how to bring awareness and compassion into your classroom using TinyTap! Ellen Weber‘s TinyTap game based on Maria Dismondy’s award-winning book The Juice Box Bully encourages students to take a proactive stand against bullying. The lesson includes a vocabulary soundboard, narrative elements exercises, plus an extension activity allowing students to share their own experiences with bullying. Red Chair Press‘ dedicates two of … Read More
Read MoreIntroducing: TinyTap Smart Play
Give less thought to learning more: Choose your starting point and let TinyTap personalize a playlist just for you. With tens of thousands of educational activities created in 30+ languages by teachers from around the world, TinyTap’s Market is the place to learn about anything! … But finding the games that best suit you can be overwhelming! Enter: Smart Play. Choose any game as your starting point, and TinyTap will automagically play next best game for you! Smart … Read More
Read MorePlay To Win: Introducing TinyTap’s Challenge Mode
Games are fun and all … but isn’t anyone keeping score?! TinyTap’s Challenge Mode gives a competitive edge to your favorite games and quizzes with leaderboards, time limits, and lives. Play to improve your score. Play to beat your friend. Play to master the material. Play to win. What kind of games can you create with the Challenge Mode? Trivia – Stump friends and family with DIY trivia contests about … well, any subject you choose! Invite your … Read More
Read MoreTinyTap Joins Zynga Edtech Accelerator in SF!
So happy and proud to officially announce that TinyTap will be joining the second cohort of Co.Lab’s EdTech accelerator program in San Francisco! A big thank you to Zynga.org and NewSchools Venture Fund for this amazing opportunity! We can’t wait to start working with some of the most innovative minds in the edtech and gaming world! San Francisco, here we come!
Read MoreKids Get Brand New Toys from TinyTap!
Meet Dynamic Therapy Associates, a group of amazing people that help kids and their families deal with speech disorders, cognitive challenges and physical disabilities everyday…And the winners of TinyTap’s Holiday Contest for $200 worth of brand new toys! Check out their winning game – ‘Merry Christmas, Look What I See!’ “We bought a pile of new games and activities for our kids to play in therapy! So much fun! Thanks Tiny Tap!” … Read More
Read MoreTinyTap Wins $1M in Verizon Prize for Education
This blog post is dedicated to the TinyTap community for their unconditional support and teaching us more than we could ever hope to learn, and to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, for believing that great ideas can change the world and that we could become one of them. The only thing better than coming up with an innovative idea, is being given the opportunity to make it a reality. On January 8th, 2014, TinyTap was announced the first … Read More
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