KLRU-TV, Austin PBS » iPhone http://www.klru.org Inspiring Austin Fri, 17 May 2013 20:32:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Electric Company Arrives on the iPhone! http://www.klru.org/blog/2011/01/the-electric-company-arrives-on-the-iphone/ http://www.klru.org/blog/2011/01/the-electric-company-arrives-on-the-iphone/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:18 +0000 maappleman http://www.klru.org/?p=2732 more →]]> Announcing the release of The Electric Company Wordball!, the latest PBS KIDS educational app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Wordball! is the first arcade-style game app that aims to help kids ages 6 to 8 build literacy skills, including phonemic awareness and decoding. The app also features music videos starring Ne-Yo, Jimmy Fallon, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and favorite characters from THE ELECTRIC COMPANY.

PBS will be offering the app at no charge in the App Store from January 15th through February 14th. (Starting February 15th, the app will cost $2.99.)

To download the app from the App Store, go to: http://to.pbs.org/wordball.

For more PBS KIDS apps, visit: http://pbskids.org/mobile.

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