Free iOS App: Feel Electric! (Sesame Street)

Written by Nathan Smith on October 6, 2014. Posted in iOS Apps, Mobile Apps.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/feel-electric!/id463493101?mt=8

** 2013 ON for Learning Award **
** 2012 Parents' Choice Recommended **

**NEW! Multiple user sign-in! Up to four users can track their own moods and keep track of their own scores!**

Are you feeling delighted? Astonished? Anxious? “Feel Electric!” explores all these emotions and more! Part of the Military Families “Finding the Right Word” initiative, this app offers engaging tools that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression. Hosted by Electric Company cast members Jessica Ruiz and Danny Rebus, “Feel Electric!” features three fast-paced games, a digital diary to record daily moods, a zany story maker, and more!

FEATURES
• 3 vocabulary-based games
• Multiple user sign-in
• A digital diary
• A glossary of 50 emotion vocabulary words and definitions
• 10 zany story makers
• Hosts Jessica Ruiz and Danny Rebus
• A library of Electric Company music, photos, and video
• Add your own music, photos, and video
• Create your own mood dude
• Fun point system and scoreboard

LEARN ABOUT
• “Feel Electric!” empowers children to explore their emotions by building expressive vocabulary skills.
• Introduces 50 emotion words and definitions
• Builds emotional awareness
• Encourages self-expression

TIPS
Supports iPhone 3GS, iPod touch Gen 3, iPad 1 and later models.

ABOUT US
• Military Families Near and Far is a free, bilingual (English and Spanish) website where families can create, communicate, and stay connected. Developed for military families, the site provides new ways for preschool and school-aged children to express themselves and communicate within their own family networks. This website and its materials are an extension of Sesame Workshop’s ongoing efforts to support our troops and their families, which include digital media tools, on-the-ground efforts, plus video and print resources on the topics of deployment, changes, and grief. For more information, please visit www.FamiliesNearAndFar.org.

• PRIVACY POLICY can be found here:
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/privacypolicy

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student openaccess computer facility, a K12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (20042012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was reelected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State