Cleveland Play House Projects

ATBOSH Media Ltd. developed a series of educational iPad apps for The Cleveland Play House’s Compassionate Arts Remaking Education (C.A.R.E.) program. The apps were made possible by the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grant from the U.S. Department of Education and are distributed to the app store by Lemming Labs Limited.

As these apps are designed for children, they contain no advertisements or in-app purchases.

Additionally, once installed these apps work completely offline: they do not download any additional content from the Internet nor do they share any data to the Internet.*

If you have an iPad you can download them directly from the app store.

*Instead of having the apps save (or share) any data directly, instructions are included how to take screenshots that can be saved and shared.

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CPH Costume Maker 2 is an app that allows you to select an actor (or two) and place them against a backdrop and configure their costume in an almost infinite number of combinations. (iPhone & iPad link)

We don’t exaggerate when we say an almost infinite number of combinations.

Each actor can be either a boy or a girl and one of 6 different races.

For each of the 6 items of clothing there are 9 variations (plus an option not to include it), and in addition to its original color it can be re-colored in one of 24 different ways.

The actors can then be arranged on one of 11 different backdrops resulting in a possible 52,764,985,218,122,496 (fifty-two quadrillion, seven hundred sixty-four trillion, nine hundred eighty-five billion, two hundred eighteen million, one hundred twenty-two thousand, four hundred ninety-six) outcomes in the Costume Maker app!

 

EmotionMatch! is a simple matching game. (iPhone & iPad link)

Select one face and then select another that matches it. Race and gender don’t matter – just try and match the emotions.

There are 14 different faces for each of the 16 different emotions!

There are 3 hint levels you can choose from.

• Easy – tells you what the emotion is before you try to match it.
• Medium – Tells you what the emotion is after you picked the match.
• Hard – Tells you the emotion only if you get it right!

Try to clear the board with the fewest number of tries!
If you get a 50% accuracy rating the game will show you your time!

Story Wheels is a tool for inspiring stories. (iPad link)

To start you decide how many wheels in your story and then choose 3 to 8 wheels. The wheels are created from over 1,100 different images of people, places, and things*. The wheels spin and you get a few re-spins to perfect your story wheels. Then you get to write your story and save your story wheels.

*With so many object available something might offend someone. Some of the items are not appropriate for children to use, such as a cigar or a knife or a fire extinguisher, but could still be useful in telling a story. If you don’t like an item or don’t know what it is – you can use one of your re-spins to try for something else. If it still shows up you can always start over.

Emotion&Me is a matching game designed to help players identify emotions. (iPhone & Pad link)

In this game you get to make the faces yourselves or even with a friend! Before the game is played, you decide if you are going to match your own face, a friend’s face, or the built in illustrations. You are prompted to pose for each emotion and then the game really begins. Try to match the emotion to the face!

There are 14 different built in faces each with 16 different emotions!

Try to match the faces with the fewest number of tries!

but in this game you get to make the faces yourselves or even with a friend! Before the game is played, you decide if you are going to match your own face, a friend’s face, or the built in drawings. You are prompted to pose for each emotion and then the game begins. Try to match the emotion to the face!

There are 14 different built in faces for each of the 16 different emotions!

Try to match the faces with the fewest number of tries!

Text Train is an app for writing poetry and stories. (app currently in revision)

First, select which word pool that you want to work from:

The Level 1 word pool contains 236 sight words.
–The 236 words used in Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in The Hat.

The Level 2 word pool contains the 315 Dolce sight words for K-3rd grade.
–Developed by Dr. Edward William Dolch in 1936.

The Level 3 word pool contains the 1,000 Fry sight words for 3rd-9th grade.
–Developed by Dr. Edward B Fry in the 1950s.

The Level 4 word pool contains over 8,700 words
–The Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary augmented with several other lists of nouns, pronouns, numbers, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections!, and some frequently used essential core words.

Each word pool affords its own experience and challenges and you are encouraged to try them all.

Remember, if you don’t know what a word means or don’t want to use it – just don’t use it!

Watch as the trains move across the tracks carrying different words. To add a word to your story simply touch it. Keep adding words. You can add a variety of punctuation marks too! If you don’t like a word you chose, you can always touch the Caboose to delete the last item added.

Be patient, new words are always coming around the bend!

The word pools contain verbs in many different tenses, the nouns tend to be singular. Every so often you will see an S, an ES. or an ‘S roll by. These can be used to create a plural or a possessive as needed. Just be careful not to make words that don’t exist!

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The Story Machine (coming soon)