A Chance To Win A The Apostrophe Song Promo Code With A Retweet Or Comment
August 22, 2010
AppAdvice has teamed up with Cool Rules in order to offer you a chance to win one of five (5) promo codes for The Apostrophe Song for iPhone and iPod touch ($.99).
Cool Rules brings a neat app to the iPhone and iPod touch that focuses on teaching one of the sometimes more confusing written English components. The Apostrophe Song is a fairly unique teaching tool to help people of any age learn the proper use of the apostrophe. The app makes use of all of the key elements of learning: visual, audible, and practice. Not only that, but it performs these lessons and provides the information in a repetitious manner.
Given the name of the app, you would have probably guessed there's some sort of music involved. "The Apostrophe Song" is a catchy and informative tune that's provided in a handful of musical genres. Whether your favorite is pop, rock, hip hop, or acoustic, you'll be able to follow along with lyrics.
That covers one audible and visual method, but what about putting it to use and practicing using it properly? The exercise portion of the app offers two variations in a brief but effective game. The standard method has you complete twenty questions, and is strictly about accuracy of choosing which of the four choices uses the apostrophe(s) correctly. The second iteration of the game is to compete against the clock, challenging you to get as many correct answers as possible within sixty seconds.
If you happen to get the answer wrong, you'll see an indicator appear of which one of the eleven "Cool Rules" of apostrophes you've managed not to follow properly. You can view these rules separately and at any time, which is a nice reference tool. As a reminder, be sure to watch the bottom of the screen during a question to catch the note of when the examples involve plural nouns. It caught me off guard a few times.
It is promoted within the app, but I'll still make a direct mention of it here. Teachers or other school faculty should check out a contest related to the app, the Cool Rules Schools’ Challenge.
To have a chance at winning one of three The Apostrophe Song promo codes, simply hit that blue tweet button near the bottom of this page or retweet this post from your favorite Twitter app before 11:59 PM PDT tonight (August 22nd). We will then search the Twitterverse for all of the retweets and randomly choose our lucky winners. The winners will be notified via Twitter, so please be sure to follow us so we can send you your promo code via a direct message.
Non-Twitter users and those of you who want to increase your odds of winning can simply leave a relevant comment below before 11:59 PM PDT tonight to have a chance at winning one of the other two The Apostrophe Song promo codes.
Feel free to participate in the giveaway via either or both methods. Only one entry per person per method is allowed, totaling up to two entries per person if using both. This giveaway is only open to U.S. iTunes account users.
Cool Rules brings a neat app to the iPhone and iPod touch that focuses on teaching one of the sometimes more confusing written English components. The Apostrophe Song is a fairly unique teaching tool to help people of any age learn the proper use of the apostrophe. The app makes use of all of the key elements of learning: visual, audible, and practice. Not only that, but it performs these lessons and provides the information in a repetitious manner.
Given the name of the app, you would have probably guessed there's some sort of music involved. "The Apostrophe Song" is a catchy and informative tune that's provided in a handful of musical genres. Whether your favorite is pop, rock, hip hop, or acoustic, you'll be able to follow along with lyrics.
That covers one audible and visual method, but what about putting it to use and practicing using it properly? The exercise portion of the app offers two variations in a brief but effective game. The standard method has you complete twenty questions, and is strictly about accuracy of choosing which of the four choices uses the apostrophe(s) correctly. The second iteration of the game is to compete against the clock, challenging you to get as many correct answers as possible within sixty seconds.
If you happen to get the answer wrong, you'll see an indicator appear of which one of the eleven "Cool Rules" of apostrophes you've managed not to follow properly. You can view these rules separately and at any time, which is a nice reference tool. As a reminder, be sure to watch the bottom of the screen during a question to catch the note of when the examples involve plural nouns. It caught me off guard a few times.
It is promoted within the app, but I'll still make a direct mention of it here. Teachers or other school faculty should check out a contest related to the app, the Cool Rules Schools’ Challenge.
Record your own version of The Apostrophe Song and we will add it to the Cool Rules Song Library. Every 3 months we will select one recording and add it to The Apostrophe Song iPhone App.
To have a chance at winning one of three The Apostrophe Song promo codes, simply hit that blue tweet button near the bottom of this page or retweet this post from your favorite Twitter app before 11:59 PM PDT tonight (August 22nd). We will then search the Twitterverse for all of the retweets and randomly choose our lucky winners. The winners will be notified via Twitter, so please be sure to follow us so we can send you your promo code via a direct message.
Non-Twitter users and those of you who want to increase your odds of winning can simply leave a relevant comment below before 11:59 PM PDT tonight to have a chance at winning one of the other two The Apostrophe Song promo codes.
Feel free to participate in the giveaway via either or both methods. Only one entry per person per method is allowed, totaling up to two entries per person if using both. This giveaway is only open to U.S. iTunes account users.
