Let the holidays begin!
BubbleBooks wants to reinforce your knowledge while having fun this holiday, and it has reduced their Apps prices from 2.69 euros to 1,79 euros*
Remember with our Apps you can also practice a second language.
Have fun learning, and playing with Tembo and his friends!
Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
* Special pricing for groups of summer schools.
BubbleBooks has created, especially for you, free traditional material to reinforce your knowledge.
Complimentary activity for the App “Tembo 2. Step by step with Tembo”
In order to facilitate some complementary traditional activities, which the child can perform to promote their learning, BubbleBooks provides additional material that the child can manipulate with or without the use of the iPad, although we recommend to use both in order to get a greater learning benefit.
Here is a complementary activity that children will enjoy playing and have fun doing!
Materials:
- App Tembo 2 Step by step with Tembo (If you do not have the app, the activity might be done with just the material. However, we recommend to work with the application as a complement).
- BubbleBooks memory templates (printable PDF)
- Coloured pencils
- Scissors with blunt tip
Advice on how to create the activity:
For the simplest level we recommend that you print 2 times the template with the characters.
- For a higher level, whe
- For the simplest level we recommend that you print 2 times the template with the characters.
- For a higher level, where the child can recognise words, we recommend that you print a template of characters and a template of the flashcards with words.
- Create groups of several children corresponding to the amount of iPads*.
- Guide them to work with the application according to their reading level.
- For P3, or low reading levels, we recommend turning off the text option and select the reading option “Auto play”.
- For more advanced reading levels, where they start to recognise words (P5) we recommend you to guide the children to adapt the text to their readability needs (text and background color and font), and select the options “I read” or “read it to me”.
- We recommend that teachers also guide the children in the game levels included in the App (P3 and P4 levels are simple, p4 and P5 are medium and high levels).
- After having completed the activity with the App, provide coloured pencils, scissors and the templates printed out of the PDF’s.
- Now the kids can color and cut the cards.
- Groups of children can manually play the memory game, with or without a time limit.
This activity can also be done with their parents at home.
We recommend to prints the templates on a white cardboard paper, because regular paper is very thin and transparent and also it is not generally recommended for this type of activity.
On January 16, 2014, in the program Media Mañana of Grem Grupo Radio Stereo Mayrán from Torreón Mexico, the presenter Marcela Pámes González interviewed Fer del Real, project manager of BubbleBooks. In this interview Fer talked about the area of research in inclusive education, in particular, the benefits of BubbleBooks Apps, and how these may benefit children with different intelligences in their reading acquisition .
“In BubbleBooks we gather research on how we could use ICT to encourage multiple learning, with the goal of having tools that could benefit most children we find in the classroom, not just a few. This research data is used in the features that characterise the BubbleBooks Apps . Our Apps can be used by children with high and low reading skills, including children with visual problems. In BubbleBooks we work to include all children in the classroom, even those that today are invisible in the education system, we offer inclusive material to help create an education for all.”
Fer del Real spoke about this topic and more during her interview:
BubbleBooks participates in a TV report about educational Apps for children of the program Generació Digital of the Catalan Television Canal 33, broadcasted on Tuesday the 10th December 2013.
In that report, Generació Digital talks about Apps for the smallest of home and what must have and how have to be designed to be adequate and have success amongst kids. In the program, Agustí Estruga and Fer del Real are interviewed as the responsible persons of the projects that we are developing in BubbleBooks.
It can be concluded that technology is an ally and a complement in the task of educating in a more inclusive way.
See the whole program
To celebrate the Universal Children’s Day, the 20th November, BubbleBooks offers free of cost the download of all its Apps from Wednesday to next Sunday, the 24th November, for making kids to learn and have fun with the three short inclusive stories of Tembo, the little elephant. Because learning and having fun are the two principal activities that the smallest in the household should do, as they are a guarantee of a good mental and emotional development.
The United Nations fixed the 20th November as Universal Children’s Day to make aware of the rights of the future citizens of the planet. At BubbleBooks we attend to making pedagogical material that respects the educational inclusion to help kids understand and to feel good in their surroundings.
We like the sentence of Nelson Mandela: “The education is the most powerful weapon that we can use to change the world”.
If we frame the matter of the education in the context of the obligatory education, we celebrate that more and more people talk of “educational inclusion” or “inclusive education” because we trust that it is the best methodology to educate.
Why the best? Well because it better reflects and respects the reality just as it is: variable, with nuances, differences, particularities, expressive, mixed, unequal, with character and personality.
Just like this was understood by experts gathered in the forum of UNESCO of 1990 in Thailand, where this concept was formulated and highlighted during the Salamanca Declaration in 1994: the convenience of to give teaching to everybody, with and without special educational needs, in the same common educational system.
Moreover, it also resounds as a powerful echo a theory of the Príncipe de Asturias of Social Sciences Award of 2011, Howard Gardner. It is about the “multiple intelligences”, eight diverse ways of “intelligences” that determine different ways to know the world. This professor of the Harvard University considers absurd to pretend that all the pupils learn in the same way.
It would be ideal that, apart from trusting in the educational inclusion for its own qualities, sons and parents would enjoy this philosophy, in other words, the pleasure of get along with “the differences” for the richness that they provide. The singularities are as the palette of an artist. Shall learn the art of living including all the colours. BubbleBooks bets on it.
Tembo the little elephant is a collection of four stories for children written and illustrated by Teresa Campos. These tales were published in paper by Intermón Oxfam the year 2008 for its collection of books for little kids.
When a year ago we founded BubbleBooks we rapidly thought of adapting in digital format those four children’s stories for two reasons: first, because they were accorded to the principles of educational inclusion, so, a short and comprehensive presentation of text, drawings with simple stroke, stories that facilitate the reading comprehension; and secondly, for the values that these narrations transmit, very close to those of Intermón Oxfam, as cooperation, friendship, curiosity to learn, etcetera.
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BubbleBooks, a digital publishing house founded in Barcelona in 2012 that specialises in creating educational applications is now launching its first apps. These are 3 stories that feature a little elephant called Tembo as the main character. The Apps are for children of three plus years. They have been designed to help learn to read and respect the parameters of educational inclusion, whereby the story can be adapted to the reading ability of each child, independent of learning requirements.
On a visual level the apps from BubbleBooks include various adjustable features: up to 6 different fonts can be selected, the spacing between letters can be changed or different colours can be used in the text and in the background. These features have been developed based on legibility studies on technological supports.
As regards content, the apps incorporate multilingual games to perfect the lexicon in the selected language and to help young readers improve their vocabulary. In this way, the mother tongue is reinforced and other languages are learned and practised. All of this is complemented with educational resources to use at home or in the classroom.
In creating these apps, BubbleBooks has received advice from educators and educational researchers and from organisations like ONCE (Spanish National Organisation for the Blind), DISFAM (Dyslexia and Family), OIDEA (International Organisation for Specific Learning Difficulties) and Asociación Lectura Fácil (Easy-to-Read association).
This first collection launched by BubbleBooks featuring Tembo as the main character is adapted for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and can be downloaded in the Apple Store for 2.69 Euros. For a limited time only, BubbleBooks is offering the first app for free.
BubbleBooks aims to continue designing apps of high educational value for the Spanish and international markets.
You can download
Tembo, the little elephant. for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (free, for a limited time only). We have also created a promotional
video urther Information can be obtained on the
BubbleBooks website.
BubbleBooks is born from the dual hope of two professional groups that want to experience the possibilities of new technologies in the digital world applied to the publishing sector: on one hand, some experts with a large career in the publishing area and great lovers of books and, on the other hand, some professionals from the educational field interested in exploring the advantages of electronic books for the educative sector. All this mix of interests reflects into BubbleBooks, a digital publishing house that not only makes electronic books for children, but also adapts the contents of its books to the reading capacities of minors, taking care of inclusive education.