Curious Words
© 2014 Curious Hat
Easy to use, and powerful, this creativity video maker is like "Vine" for younger children. After you give the app permission to use your camera (a one time process) you see an image, with a random word (like animal, fast, happy, beautiful or ugly) and are asked to press a red "record" button when you've matched your label with an image. The fun is when you try to find items to match. The app starts quickly moving and gets you creating; making an excellent app for a group of children. The movie is finalized when all the words are recorded, assembled with voice over and music, resulting in a short movie. The random words encourage exploration, as you search for an image, pattern color, object or movement inspired by the word. The interface is designed to allow you to navigate to new words (swipe left or right or double tap), change the camera filter (swipe up or down) or change the voice over (swipe diagonally). Our testers weren't able to figure this out. They also had trouble catching some of the segments. We've seen this UI challenge handled more elegantly with apps like MadPad (Smule). The resulting movie can be saved to the camera roll, but don't worry, you can't save any more than 12 words per project (that's a maximum of 12 seconds). Visit http://www.curioushat.com/curious-words/ for more information. NOTE: It is possible to pick your own word instead of a random one. Double tap on the word to access the word list. The recording is signaled by a red dot and red progress bar on the screen. If the recording was not good, you can retake (but if he/she moves to the next word the button resets to record) the new word.
$1.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Teaches: creativity, video, language experience, acting
CTR Rating: 87.5%