Rosa Alonso Telemundo NY Tech: Back to School Apps

RosaAlonso_TelemundoTV_090313This week’s Rosa Alonso Telemundo NY weekly tech segment is all about Back-to-School.  Rosa “La Tecnologica” (” The Techie,” as she is known in Spanish-language media) gives advice on some of the top apps that help students plan, learn – and have fun!

The apps featured are:

1)  SlateMath: from SlateScience

FREE – iTunes (iPhone, iPad, iTouch)
Kindergarten – 1st grade: Math taught in a very fun and interactive way.  Support for 25 languages includes Spanish.

2) Frog Dissection – Froguts

$3.99 for iOS; $5.99 for Android
The infamous frog dissection class – without the “yuck” factor!

3) SAT Vocab Challenge – by Princeton Review

$4.99 per volume, iOS Compatible with iPhone® and iPod touch®
Over 250 of the words that most often appear on the SAT test (no, it’s not cheating!)

And for general knowledge, two great apps for all ages:

4) Dictionary.com

Free, iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android
Dictionary.com app has two million definitions. You can also look up words when offline. The apps even pronounce words (very helpful).

5) Wikipedia

Official Wikipedia App for iOS or Android. The web’s top free encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 280 languages.

Watch Rosa “La Tecnológica” (the Techie) on “Buenos Días Nueva York!” every Tuesday,  5-7 am, on Telemundo NY  (and BDNY Monday through Friday, 5-7am).

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