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Tiny Ocean Review

Our Review

Tiny Ocean is a lovely interactive ocean themed app, both fun and educational. Starting out on a tropical island, tap various objects such as the sun, ball, or sand castle and watch as they move around the screen, listening to the noises that they make. When finished with dry land, scroll down into the ocean, ultimately landing on the ocean’s floor, tapping various sea life as you go. The music playing in the background of this app is perfect – relaxing and beautiful, I especially like the use of the calypso drum, adding to the tropical feel of this application.

Sea-themed Interactive Flash Cards are included where parents or kids can record their own voices reading the flash cards, aiding in reading, pronunciation, speaking skills, as well as general creativity as these recording can later be used as the soundtrack of the different sea creatures being tapped.

My son (2.5+ years) had a lot of silly fun making his own recordings, and I am surprised how much I enjoy listening to his little voice say words like “Octopus” or “Submarine.”

This would be a great app for babies to teach cause and effect from the tapping, and older kids will enjoy hearing themselves as they make their own recordings. I like that Spanish and Greek translations are included in the Flash Card section, but I wish I could adjust the volume of the recorded and music tracks separately, and I would like to see the prompt moment be longer before one records. Also, we were not able to record over the coconuts, something that I hope could be looked at for a future update.

Although great for many ages, parents may find themselves playing back their child’s recordings on their own for their own pleasure. I know I do. This app has become like a keep-sake of how my son speaks at 2.5+ years and has become very precious to me.

dataNovember 10th, 2010 by Amy Solomon Share

Application Detail

Tiny Ocean


Download on iTunesDeveloper: Milo Creative
Released: 2010-09-15 00:00:00
Price: $0.99

Description from the Developer

Tiny Ocean is an educational game that keeps children entertained and engaged whilst they learn new words. Children explore a tropical island and musical underwater world by simply tapping illustrated pictures to play animations and sounds. Parents and children can record their own voices to help pronunciation and speaking skills. Tiny Ocean features interactive Flash Cards in multiple languages.

•••FEATURED BY APPLE•••
Tiny Ocean was featured by Apple in it's 'New & Noteworthy' section in iTunes.

•••TINY WORLDS FOR TINY PEOPLE•••
Tiny Ocean is designed to engage children in a playful educational experience, through an intuitive interface that is easy to pick up for both them and their parents. Simply scroll from the island to the bottom of the ocean, tapping illustrated pictures to play animations, voice recorded words and sound effects. Children meet a jolly crab, a friendly seahorse, a laughing octopus and a little boy in a yellow submarine among many more delightful characters.

•••RECORD YOUR OWN SOUNDS•••
Children and parents can record their own words and also jam along to music by rhythmically tapping musical stars & seaweed instruments.

•••ANIMATED FLASH CARDS•••
Parents can teach new words with a collection of animated Flash Cards. A tap on a picture plays its associated audio, aiding word recognition. A tap on the microphone lets parents and children record their own voice, which plays back both on the Flash Cards and in the ocean, stimulating word association, pronunciation and speaking skills.

•••MULTIPLE LANGUAGES•••
Tiny Ocean is great for teaching multiple languages and currently supports English, Spanish and Greek.

•••FEATURES•••
•A playful learning experience that teaches children new words

•Interactive exploratory world packed full of illustrations, animations, music and sound effects

•Children can record their own words, building confidence speaking

•Animated Flash Cards that teach children new words in multiple languages



•••AWARD WINNING•••
Tiny Ocean is brought to you by the award winning milo creative , the creators of Milk Monitor, Tiny Garden and a heap of interactive educational games for leading brands worldwide

Milo Creative is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 1-3, 4-7
Categories: Creative Play, Early Learning, Matching, Reading, Vocabulary, Environment, Foreign Language, Games, Music, Parents

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