Technology ventures
Products built from concept to market.
Island Innovation and its predecessor ventures developed and commercialized more than 50 mobile and web products across education, environmental learning, healthcare, program evaluation, visual puzzles, and sports.
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Environmental Education
Environmental education applications that combine nature, sound, creativity, and STEM learning.
Nature Maestro® Rainforest Day
Spend a day in the Rainforest. Kids, parents, and educators, use an iPad and your imagination to create and share a day experience in the Costa Rican Rainforest. Build audio-rich scenes called “Soundscapes,” using melodies, rhythms, and a two minute background ambience loop recorded on location, during the day in the Costa Rican Rainforest. Animals and soundtracks in Rainforest Day include Mantled Howler Monkey, Montezuma Oropendola, Scarlet Macaw, Mealy Parrot, Black-Headed Saltator, Blue Morpho, Strawberry Poison-dart Frog, Purple-throated Mountaingem, Green Ibis, Steady Rain, and Leaves Rustling.
Nature Maestro® Rainforest Night
Spend a night in the Rainforest. Kids, parents, and educators, use an iPad and your imagination to create and share a night experience in the Costa Rican Rainforest. Build audio-rich scenes called “Soundscapes,” using melodies, rhythms, and a two minute background ambience loop recorded on location, during the night in the Costa Rican Rainforest. Animals and soundtracks in Rainforest Night include Boa Constrictor, Collared Peccary, Ocelot, Common Pauraque, Smokey Jungle Frog, Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Túngara Frog, Raindrops on Leaves, Heavy Rain, and Quiet Stream.
Nature Maestro® Glacier Bay
Spend a day in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Kids, parents, and educators, use an iPad and your imagination to create and share a day experience in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Build audio-rich scenes called “Soundscapes,” using melodies, rhythms, and a two minute background ambience loop recorded on location, in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Animals and soundtracks in Glacier Bay include Humpback Whale, Steller Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Bald Eagle, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Glaucous Gulls, Canada Goose, Glacier Calving, Cold Rain on Water, Humpback Whale Splash, and Humpback Whale Spout.
Nature Maestro® Expedition
Spend a day in the Costa Rican Rainforest and Glacier Bay, Alaska. Students, parents, and educators, use an iPad and your imagination to create and share your unique experience in the Costa Rican Rainforest or Glacier Bay, Alaska. Immerse yourself in each of these great biomes while gaining a greater appreciation of Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystems. Expedition provides environmental education, fun facts, enrichment materials for classroom use, a full vocabulary glossary, curriculum-aligned activities, verbatim read-along audio, and informational help.
Nature Maestro® Challenge
Kids, parents, and educators, play four visual and auditory memory matching games using animal and nature sounds recorded on location in the Costa Rican rainforest and Glacier Bay, Alaska. Nature Maestro Challenge empowers environmental education. Animals and soundtracks in Challenge include Howler Monkey, Strawberry Poison-dart Frog, Montezuma Oropendola, Purple-throated Mountaingem, Green Ibis, Blue Morpho, Ocelot, Boa Constrictor, Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Collared Peccary, Smokey Jungle Frog, Harbor Seal, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Bald Eagle, Steller Sea Lion, Glacier Calving, Humpback Whale and many more!
Clean Energy Hawaii STEM
Featured by Apple as “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” in both the Education and Educational Games Categories. Clean Energy Hawaii is an educational iPad App designed to learn about solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and biomass clean energy. Seven fun activities inspire STEM exploration and inquiry: 1) Tap into the geothermal heat of the earth. 2) Explore the difference between sugar cane and switchgrass biomass. 3) Build a custom wind farm and experiment with generators and wind speeds. 4) Discover how flow, height, and turbines can change hydroelectric power production. 5) Imagine that your iPad is a photovoltaic solar panel and position it correctly to generate 40 watts of power in locations around the world. 6) Quiz yourself and learn how peak sun hours vary month to month for ten world locations. 7) Add photovoltaic panels, clouds, and batteries to a solar farm to understand real world challenges for solar energy production. Clean Energy Hawaii STEM was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education and developed in partnership with the Maui Economic Development Board (MEDB), Women in Technology Program.
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Elementary School Math
Early learning applications for mathematics, time, and money skills.
Kids Math Fun Kindergarten
This application encourages Kindergarten students to practice the addition of two single digit (0-9) numbers, and the subtraction of two single digit (0-9) numbers (without negative answers). Teachers are using the Kids Math Fun applications in their classrooms to reinforce addition, subtraction, and basic math skills. A score board in the right hand corner, shows how many addition or subtraction problems have been completed along with the totals for correct and wrong answers. Kids Math Fun is Recommended by InternetSafety.com as one of 10 Kid-Friendly iPhone Apps.
Kids Math Fun First Grade
This application encourages First Grade students to practice the addition of a double digit (0-99) number with a single digit (0-9) number (without carrying), and the subtraction of a single digit (0-9) number from a double digit (0-99) number (without borrowing or negative answers). Students can gain confidence by doing practice addition and subtraction problems with unlimited time, or they can build proficiency by selecting "Minute Math" to see how many problems they can answer with a time limit. Kids Math Fun is Recommended by InternetSafety.com as one of 10 Kid-Friendly iPhone Apps.
Kids Math Fun Second Grade
This application encourages Second Grade students to practice the addition of two double digit (0-99) numbers (with carrying), the subtraction of two double digit (0-99) numbers (without borrowing or negative answers), and the multiplication tables of 2’s, 5’s and 10’s (to “times 10”). A score board in the right hand corner, shows how many problems have been completed along with the totals for correct and wrong answers. Kids Math Fun is Recommended by InternetSafety.com as one of 10 Kid-Friendly iPhone Apps.
Kids Math Fun Third Grade
Featured by Apple in the "Apps for Kids" section of the App Store. This application encourages Third Grade students to practice the addition of two triple digit (0-999) numbers (with carrying), the subtraction of two triple digit (0-999) numbers (with borrowing, but without negative answers), the traditional multiplication table of (1-12) times (1-12), and the whole number division table of (1-144) divided by (1-12). Graphics include: Smiling kids, kids playing outdoors, healthy fruit and vegetable snacks, boats, and buildings. Kids Math Fun is Recommended by InternetSafety.com as one of 10 Kid-Friendly iPhone Apps.
Kids Math Fun Fourth Grade
This application encourages Four Grade students to practice the addition of two decimal (0.1-9.9) numbers (with carrying), the subtraction of two decimal (0.1-9.9) numbers (with borrowing, but without negative answers), the multiplication of a double digit (1-25) number with a single digit (1-9) number, and whole number division of a number (1-225) divided by a number (1-15). Total Practice Problems can be set between 5 and 100 problems, the Minute Math Timer can be set between 1/2 minute and 10 minutes, and High Scores can be cleared. Kids Math Fun is Recommended by InternetSafety.com as one of 10 Kid-Friendly iPhone Apps.
Kids Math Fun Fifth Grade
This application has 12 unique activities focused on Percentages, Fractions, and Decimals. This app is designed to help students practice, master, and gain confidence adding, subtracting, multiplying, and finding the equivalence for Percentages, Fractions, and Decimals. All the questions are randomly generated, but are designed with internal rules to be practical and solvable by children at these grade levels. Total Practice Problems can be set between 5 and 100 problems, the Minute Math Timer can be set between 1/2 minute and 10 minutes, and High Scores can be cleared. Kids Math Fun is Recommended by InternetSafety.com as one of 10 Kid-Friendly iPhone Apps.
Kids Time Fun
Kids Time Fun encourages students to learn and practice how to tell time and how to practice math involving time. Students of all abilities can use this application because it provides full access to all the settings. Each student in a classroom or at home can easily tailor the application to their own ability level before they use it. There are six early learning activities: Tell Time, Elapsed Time, Time After, and Time Before, Set Time, and Mixed Mode.
Kids Coin Fun
Featured by Apple as "What's Hot" in the Education, Kids Games, and Educational Games Categories. Kids Coin Fun is an early learning money math application that teaches students how count coins, identify coins, add up coins, and buy/sell items using United States coins. It has six money related activities: Add Coins, Count Coins, Choose Coins, Get Change, Give Change, and Touch Total. This app allows you to choose between four levels of difficulty (Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Red Belt, and Black Belt).
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Educational Program Planning & Evaluation
Program planning, logic model, monitoring, and evaluation applications.
Education Logic Model (ELM)
Logic models are an invaluable tool for teachers, administrators, policy makers and evaluators to visually represent the structure, process, and goals of a program, both conceptual and actionable. The program will guide you through a series of questions, and give you opportunities to enter your program resources, activities, outputs, and outcomes. The ELM Application is a downloadable computer app that runs locally on Google Chrome and does not require you to connect to the internet. The ELM Application was funded in part by the Institute of Education Science, U.S. Department of Education.
Program Outcomes, Measures, and Targets (POMT)
For teachers, administrators, policy makers, and evaluators, program monitoring can be an important method for ensuring that programs run smoothly. The POMT Application helps you create an ongoing plan for monitoring, measuring, and tracking outcomes over time to evaluate program effectiveness. The POMT Application is a downloadable computer app that runs locally on Google Chrome and does not require you to connect to the internet. The POMT Application was funded in part by the Institute of Education Science, U.S. Department of Education.
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Visual Word Puzzles
A visual word puzzle application combining language, art, and found-object typography.
Wordplay by Muddyum®
Featured by Apple in "What's Hot” and cited in the Wall Street Journal . Go ahead, play with your food! …and other objects from nature! Add words and popular expressions into the mix and you've got a fun word game mixed with unique artistic images. WordPlay by Muddyum® is excellent for challenging the right and left sides of your brain to work together. Try a couple of WordPlay puzzles and you'll be hooked! Use the visual clues in the unique art-quality photographs to solve the word puzzles in Muddyum's WordPlay challenges. Three different game play modes offer a fun challenge for everyone. Compete with your friends for high scores in individual challenges or in party game mode. Muddyum is a New York based illustrator who uses hand-lettering and found-object typography to create the gallery quality images found in WordPlay.
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Sports Advice
Commercialized sports advice applications and advisor tools.
Winning Sports Advice®
Featured by Apple as “What’s Hot in Sports,” and was frequently ranked as one of the Top Five Grossing Apps in the iTunes Sports Category. Purchase real-time Winning Sports Advice® from recognized world-wide handicappers. Getting Winning Sports Advice® for your favorite games and teams is just as easy as downloading your favorite song from iTunes. Just pick your games, press purchase, and your Winning Sports Advice® downloads instantly
Winning Sports Advisor
A private iPad app used by select global handicappers to enter their advice, record audio commentary, rate their games, upload marketing messages, and enter push notification alerts.
