Gogo Explorer
© 2011 Hagend Labs
Instead of just taking a picture or video on a field trip, this app lets you recreate, collaborate and share your experience in the form of a portable field trip on your iPad. The "patent-pending platform features a 2 ½ dimension drawing canvas" allowing you to choose a scrollable background and drag-and-drop objects to recreate your favorite field trip. For example, if you saw a butterfly but it flew by too fast to take a picture, you could drag a butterfly from your object library, drop in onto your scene, pinch it to the size you want and tap on the color palette. You could also add flowers and bees to your scene. Each object selected provides both visual and voice feedback to reinforce the spelling and pronunciation of the object. As you create, you earn points with the Activity Wizard. When you publish your field trip to the community, the total points you earned can earn you a spot on the Gogo Explorer Leaderboard. We did not test this app.
iPad
Teaches: a utility for field trips