great nook apps for libraries
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Several of my favorite Nook Color apps related to books and reading, office and productivity, children and early literacy, and just for fun.TRANSCRIPT
Great Nook Apps
for LibrariesBecky Corning, PresenterColorado Association of Libraries
Conference
Technology Petting Zoo
Loveland, Colorado
October 2011
Apps for:• Books and reading• Office/Productivity• Children/Early Literacy• Just for Fun
Apps related to books and reading
Goodreads
• Free• Social network for
readers• Rate books, mark
books you have read or want to read, see others’ reviews
• More than 140 million books
Authors
• Free• See tweets by authors• YouTube content
(Video interviews)
Office/Productivity
QuickOffice Pro
• $14.99• Create and edit
Microsoft Word, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations
(QuickOffice screen shots)
Pulse
• Free• News feeds, feeds
from social networks• Loads news stories
while online, so you can read while offline
• Quickly share news stories to Facebook, Twitter
Children/Early Literacy
Going to Bed Book
• $3.99• “Read it myself” or
“The big guy reads it”• Interactive features
such as a bathtub that fogs up the screen, clothes popping out of drawers, boat rocking as you move the Nook
(video)
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Shape Builder
• $1.99• Move shapes and they
snap into place• Letters, numbers,
animals, fruits, vegetables, music instruments, sound effects
• Letters spoken
(ShapeBuilder screen shots)
TikaTok
• Free to make and read books, charges if you want to download your book or have it printed
• Write your own content, use clip art or art/photos from your Nook
Just for Fun
Angry Birds
• $2.99• Addictive• Use Mighty Eagle
while in the Barnes & Noble store to crash through to new levels
Epicurious
• $4.99• Recipes, categories,
search by ingredient