Free iOS App Today: Lochfoot (Children’s Interactive Story)

Written by Nathan Smith on November 25, 2014. Posted in iOS Apps, Mobile Apps.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lochfoot/id787445305?mt=8

Children who love stories about mysterious creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot will enjoy this imaginative tale about two children who wander away from their parents’ remote campsite, uncover one the world’s most unlikely teenagers, and have a night they’ll never forget.

My son has always loved monsters. A few years ago, when he was eight, he showed me an Internet picture of Bigfoot riding the Loch Ness Monster. I joked that maybe they were on a date. Then we had a laugh thinking about what would happen if they got married and had a baby. What would that baby look like? What would his life be like?

Lochfoot was born.

This animated story was developed exclusively for tablets. Lochfoot is a multimedia reading experience with 26 pages of rich illustrations, music, sound effects, voices and narration. It’s geared toward readers ages 4-8 who will enjoy the simple story of discovery, friendship and adventure.

The settings panel allows for page jumping as well as voice and narration options for parent/child reading.

Lochfoot was designed and illustrated by W. Scott Matthews who is a Creative Director and Partner at The Tremendousness Collective in St. Louis, Missouri. Development by James Macanufo at Tintanker.com.

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