{"id":591,"date":"2010-12-20T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/?p=591"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:15:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T20:15:13","slug":"slty-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/2010\/12\/20\/slty-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A SLTy Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bible<\/a>ICTA loves to discover and promote S<\/span>pirit-L<\/span>ed T<\/span>echnology<\/span> \u2013 and we have an interesting new example for you at this gift-giving time of year! A friend of ICTA has helped develop and promote a fun, exciting and Bible-centered high tech way to offset a bit of our secular culture\u2019s lock on kid\u2019s attention spans \u2013 currently estimated as 42 hours a week of secular TV or video games.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ICTA has been given permission to offer you early access to Bible Islands<\/a>, a safe, online learning game adventure experience for kids 4-99.
\n\"\"<\/a>ICTA\u2019s Christmas gift to you:\u00a0 you and your family can all PLAY FREE<\/strong> in Bible Islands with a two-week family FREE Trial Subscription<\/strong><\/a> good through January 2nd (it becomes a one-week trial after that.)\u00a0 Then if you opt to become a member of Bible Islands, using the ICTA link provides access to discounted 6 or 12-month family membership packages. \u00a0The makers of Bible Islands will also donate a significant portion of your family membership to ICTA ministry projects.\u00a0\u00a0 So check this out, tell us what you think\u2026and pass along to others who may be interested.<\/p>\n

More details below the fold…<\/p>\n

Bible Islands<\/a> is a hi-tech education experience for kids, designed to be an attractive and fun online gaming experience to reclaim an hour or two a day<\/em> from that 4-6 hours a day kids are consuming mainstream media.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bible Islands introduces kids to Bible stories, character building games and concepts, creative activates and also games in cross-curricular subjects of math, science, English and even Hebrew letters – all from the Christian faith and a \u201cfamily values\u201d perspective.<\/p>\n

Bible Islands also has a completely safe and monitored online communication system for kids to send pre-selected text and picture messages to friends, parents and grandparents who are connected in the Bible Islands\u2019 LINKO system.<\/p>\n

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\"Play<\/a>Play special Christmas games and see Hermie\u2019s \u201cMeaning of Christmas\u201d song in Bible Islands\u2019 Glueworks Cinema<\/span><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Bible Islands provides a personalized player account for each child, then it starts at their age appropriate level and grows with them to keep them challenged.\u00a0 Parents also get a special account to play too, plus a special parent\u2019s webpage to guide and monitor their child\u2019s progress and time spent in Bible Islands.<\/p>\n

Bible Islands<\/a> features animated characters, stories and music from several popular Christian Children\u2019s DVD series (Glueworks, Hermie & Friends, Gigi, God\u2019s Little Princes, On the Farm, and many more.)<\/em><\/p>\n

We would love for you to take advantage of the FREE Play Trial of Bible Islands<\/strong><\/a> and tell us what you think<\/strong> (even if you just want to play the Hebrew letter learning games for yourself.) Until January 3rd, you get a two-week free trial that includes Christmas-only games and videos. This is a very dynamic system, with more material being added all the time. (Note: you are welcome to share the link with others.)<\/p>\n

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ICTA loves to discover and promote Spirit-Led Technology \u2013 and we have an interesting new example for you at this gift-giving time of year! A friend of ICTA has helped develop and promote a fun, exciting and Bible-centered high tech way to offset a bit of our secular culture\u2019s lock on kid\u2019s attention spans \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1172],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-tech","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.icta.net\/slty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}