Posts Tagged ‘My Little Pony app’

An Award for My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle, Teacher for a Day

Posted by ruckusholly on March 8th, 2012

Mom's Choice Award

My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle, Teacher for a Day continues to surprise and amaze us.

Last month we were thrilled to learn that it achieved a huge milestone when it reached one million user sessions. That means that one million of you, or your child, have opened up the My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle, Teacher for a Day app, produced with our partner, Hasbro.

And now we are proud to announce that our very own My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle, Teacher for a Day has won a Gold Mom’s Choice Award® for Best In Family-Friendly Products (or Services)!  It joins three of our other apps in receiving this prestigious award – Chuck & Friends: Friend for the Long Haul, A Present for Milo and Spot the Dot.

The Mom’s Choice Awards® (MCA) is an awards program that recognizes authors, inventors, companies, parents and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media, products and services.  Parents, educators, librarians and retailers rely on MCA evaluations when selecting quality materials forchildren and families.  The Mom’s Choice Awards® seal helps families and educators navigate the vast array of products and services and make informed decisions.

We knew that we had a terrific app with My Little Pony, but it’s nice to know that everyone else agrees. Available for any I.O.S device, a child can learn and play at the same time while enjoying a brand they know and love.  They can tap and tilt the screen in fun activities that move the action forward—learning new words, playing activities and watching videos.  The app is an engaging way to learn to read, packed full with rich, educational entertainment for beginning readers.

So, head over to the iTunes store to pick up a copy of our award-winning My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle, Teacher for a Day and wish everyone included in its creation and development a heart felt congratulations in the comments below.

Join Our Twitter Party to Discuss the App Divide/Screen Time Use By Our Kids on November 17th at 9pm EST

Posted by ruckusholly on November 1st, 2011

App DivideLike many of you, we read the NY Times piece, amongst many others, titled “Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children Study Finds”, with great interest last week. It talked about the results of a study conducted by Common Sense Media that came up with new findings regarding children and their use of screen time including:

- Children under 8 are spending more time than ever in front of screens

- For the first time, there is an emerging “app gap” in which affluent children are likely to use mobile educational games while those in low-income families are the most likely to have televisions in their bedrooms.

- Almost half the families with incomes above $75,000 had downloaded apps specifically for their young children, compared with one in eight of the families earning less than $30,000. More than a third of those low-income parents said they did not know what an “app” — short for application — was.

- Half of children in the study under 8 had access to a mobile device like a smartphone, a video iPod, or an iPad or other tablet.

- The report found that despite more than a decade of warnings from the American Academy of Pediatrics that screen time offers no benefits for children under 2.

As an app developer and lover of books, Ruckus Media has definite opinions about some of these results and we are sure you do, too, so we thought we’d spend this month’s Twitter Party discussing the results and sharing our thoughts with each other.

Come hang out with us on Thursday, November 17th from 9-10pm EST at hashtag #RuckusAppDivide on Twitter (or on TweetGrid, TweetDeck or TweetChat, whichever platform you prefer.  @momtodanielle, thechattymomma, @davidbfox and @huppiemama will be on board to moderate the discussion, and as usual, we’ll great giveaways including plenty of Ruckus apps.  You must RSVP on Twitvite to be in the running for the prizes.

If you’re not already following us, we’re on Twitter at @RuckusMedia.  RSVP for the Twitter party here and while you are at it, please join us on Facebook  for the latest and greatest on Ruckus. Be sure to check out our videos on You Tube, sign up for our RSS feed and pick up our apps on iTunes.

The First Ever “My Little Pony” Interactive Storybook is Live Today!

Posted by ruckusholly on September 21st, 2011

My Little Pony appToday is a HUGE day for all of us at Ruckus Media!  We are thrilled to announce the launch of My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle Teacher for a Day,  an interactive storybook for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, now available through the iTunes App Store. Hasbro’s first mobile application for the popular toy franchise and television show is a richly educational entertainment, designed for independent or family reading.  You can read the entire press release here.

This is the second Hasbro interactive storybook that we’ve created; the first was Chuck & Friends: Friends for the Long Haul.  My Little Pony features include an interactive storybook, designed to help develop vocabulary, reading and motor skills; stimulating in-app activity moments; flexible formats; touch-driven animations within the story add another layer of excitement; a “Read Me” option; “Meet the Ponies” features provide background info on each of the story’s characters; read along, play along, and record your voice feature; words illuminate when story is read for basic word recognition; activities teach letter recognition, picture/word association and basic problem solving; and randomization of activity content and difficulty level provides new experiences for repeated play. All this in one app!

To kick off the launch of My Little Pony, we have plenty going on!  For one thing, if you buy the app now, you can get it for 99 cents!  So head over to iTunes and get a copy for your kids, nieces and nephews, friends kids, everyone you know!
My Little Pony appAlso,we’re hosting a fun-filled Twitter party, with prizes from our friends at Hasbro.  Come hang out with us on Tuesday, September 27th from 9-10pm EST at hashtag #RuckusMLP on Twitter (or on TweetGrid, TweetDeck or TweetChat, whichever platform you prefer) for a discussion on friendship and everything that you love about the My Little Pony brand.

We’ll have great giveaways provided by our friends – My Little Pony branded, of course!  We’ll also have plenty of My Little Pony apps on hand to give away, as well.  And for the grand prize, a girl’s bike by our good friends at Shwinn Bikes. You must RSVP on Twitvite to be in the running for the prizes.

If you’re not already following us, we’re on Twitter at @RuckusMedia.  RSVP for the Twitter party here and while you are at it, please join us on Facebook  for the latest and greatest on Ruckus. Be sure to check out our videos on You Tube, sign up for our RSS feed and pick up our apps on iTunes.

See you in Equestira, the kingdom of Princess Celestia and all of the Pegasus, Earth and Unicorn ponies!

Get Ready to Join Our My Little Pony Twitter Party on Tuesday, September 27th at 9pm

Posted by ruckusholly on September 19th, 2011

My Little Pony App

We are getting ready to launch our newest app,  My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day.  The big launch day on iTunes is this Thursday and we could not be more excited!

“My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day” is for a new generation of My Little Pony fans. They’ll join Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity and Spike as they embark on a exciting adventure to learn the history of Equestira, the kingdom of Princess Celestia and all of the Pegasus, Earth and Unicorn ponies. It features story-driven activities that guide Twilight Sparkle and Spiky, culminating in the Grand Galloping Gala.

In My Little Pony style, the focus is on friendship and loyalty.  All of the ponies in the story work together to make the party great, all in the spirit of friendship.

Come hang out with us on Tuesday, September 27th from 9-10pm EST at hashtag #RuckusMLP on Twitter (or on TweetGrid, TweetDeck or TweetChat, whichever platform you prefer) for a discussion on friendship and everything that you love about the My Little Pony brand.  We’ll be joined by our fabulous moderators: @mommymentor @thechattymomma @amotherhoodblog @coolkidsmommy who all know a thing or two the topic.

We’ll have great giveaways provided by our friends at Playskool.  We’ll also have plenty of My Little Pony apps on hand to give away, as well.  And for the grand prize, a girl’s bike by our good friends at Shwinn Bikes. You must RSVP on Twitvite to be in the running for the prizes.

If you’re not already following us, we’re on Twitter at @RuckusMedia.  RSVP for the Twitter party here and while you are at it, please join us on Facebook  for the latest and greatest on Ruckus. Be sure to check out our videos on You Tube, sign up for our RSS feed and pick up our apps on iTunes.

Disclosure: Prizes will be provided by our friends at Hasbro and Schwinn Bikes.  We are grateful to both companies.