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Middle School Confidential 1: Be Confident in Who You Are
This 49-page digital graphic novel is based on Book 1 of the award-winning Middle School Confidential series written by nationally recognized teen expert and anti-bullying activist Annie Fox, M.Ed., and illustrated by Harvey Award winner Matt Kindt. This is a Universal iOS app designed specifically for the iPad screen but also great on iPhone/iPod touch. The Be Confident in Who You Are app is available for download on the iTunes App Store for $2.99 USD (educational discounts available). Also available on Android, Kindle Fire, NOOK HD/HD+, NOOK Color, and NOOK Tablet as well as the nabi tablet!
iPad Screenshots
iPhone/iPod touch Screenshots
Video Demo
Middle School Confidential 1: Be Confident in Who You Are video demo by www.A4CWSN.com on Vimeo or YouTube.
More About the App
“Lack of self-confidence underlies most of the problems tweens and teens have with their peers,” says Annie Fox, who has been answering email from kids and teens around the world and offering advice since 1997. “I wrote the Middle School Confidential series to help kids build their sense of self and make choices that reflect who they really are.”
 With richly layered audio made up of movie-like sound effects and music, Be Confident in Who You Are makes full use of iPad technology. The app is designed for 8- to 14-year-olds, including those who aren’t enthusiastic readers. Be Confident in Who You Are is the first in a series of kids’ story apps to be produced by Electric Eggplant, the multimedia production company founded in 1992 by Annie and her husband, David Fox, both award-winning game designers.
“I’m totally jazzed to see my Middle School Confidential books on the iPad,” says Annie Fox. “Since we first developed a Sesame Street computer game for Children’s Television Workshop 35 years ago, David and I have been creating content that connects kids with technology and helps them develop confidence and get along better with others. With a story like Be Confident in Who You Are and the dynamic power of the iPad, we’re now putting thought-provoking entertainment and solutions into the hands of kids who are dealing with social-emotional issues right now.”
Designed in a format familiar to fans of Marvel and DC Comics apps, Be Confident in Who You Are enables the reader to interact with the story by zooming in for frame-by-frame reading or zooming out again for a page-by-page view. An auto-save feature remembers your place in the story and a menu page permits jumping to any of the eight chapters. Special Meet the Cast pages let young fans learn more about them. The app is designed for the hard-to-reach “tween” age group, reluctant readers, parents, and teachers who use technology in the classroom.
iOS Device requirements:
- iPad or iPad 2 (iPhone and iPod versions coming soon)
- Requires iOS 4.0 or later (iOS 5.0 tested)
- 35 MB
NOOK Color Device requirements:
Leaders Guide
Educators, download the free Leader’s Guide to the Middle School Confidential Series.
Privacy Policy
The Be Confident app does not access your contacts or web history. Electric Eggplant does not collect any personally identifiable information through the app. The app does not contain any ads, in-app purchases or social network integration.
We used the Corona SDK to develop the app. Corona tracks your usage and collects the following types of information from you when you use our app: your IP address (including country of origin), app version, device operating system (including version), device make and model, UDID or other unique device identifier (only in anonymized form—i.e., not associated with any other personally identifiable information), and the current time each time you launch the app. You can read Corona’s privacy policy here.
The Be Confident app saves the state of the app to your device when it exits, so it can be restarted in the same state. This is recommended practice for an iOS app. This data is not transmitted and it is not associated with any identifying information.
The app does include external links in the About section.
For more information about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
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