{"id":56321,"date":"2017-08-15T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-hitn-educational-app-pocoyo-playset-lets-move-finalist-for-the-2017-kids-imagination-awards\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:00:03","slug":"el-app-educativo-de-hitn-pocoyo-playset-lets-move-finalista-a-los-premios-kids-imagination-awards-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-app-educativo-de-hitn-pocoyo-playset-lets-move-finalista-a-los-premios-kids-imagination-awards-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"HITN Educational App &#8220;Pocoyo PlaySet: Let&#8217;s Move&#8221; Finalist For The 2017 Kids Imagination Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BROOKLYN, N.Y.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 15, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hitn.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>HITN<\/b><\/a>, the non-profit, Spanish-language media network that provides educational and entertainment programming to more than 44 million American households across the country, announced today that its educational App &#8216;Pocoyo PlaySet&#8217;: Let&#8217;s Move has been honored as finalist for the 2017 Kids Imagination Awards, an annual awards program celebrating the best in children&#8217;s, tween and family programming across platforms, technology, marketing and prosocial campaigns. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg16e0left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg16e0left\" title=\"HITN Inks a Deal for Lifestyle Content\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HITN Inks a Deal for Lifestyle Content\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/344200\/HITN_Logo.jpg  \"\/><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pocoyo.com\/en\/apps\/playset\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pocoyo PlaySet: Let&#8217;s Move<\/a>, is part of <b>HITN <\/b>Learning division&#8217;s suite of products that help preschoolers develop English-language skills needed for a successful start in Kindergarten. <b>HITN&#8217;s<\/b> educational app was nominated by the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Cynopsis Kids Imagination Awards in the following categories: Mobile App Preschool, Mobile App (educational), Tablet-Based App.\u00a0 The winners will be announced at the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Awards Breakfast, held on <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 19<\/span> at the Yale Club in NYC.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pocoyo PlaySet: Let&#8217;s Move <\/i>app is a creation of the Early Learning Collaborative (ELC) led by HITN and including Zinkia Entertainment, the creator of the animated series, <i>Pocoyo <\/i>and the Michael Cohen Group, a leading evaluator of educational programs, funded by the Federal Government. <b>HITN<\/b>&#8216;s creative design and focus on solid academic and social-emotional skills were brought to life through the Pocoyo characters, the most beloved preschool characters in the Spanish-speaking world, and through the support of a <span class=\"xn-money\">$30 million<\/span> Ready-to-Learn grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited that our educational app made it to the finalists&#8217; list for the 2017 Kids Imagination Awards,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">David Rust<\/span>, General Manager for HITN Learning. &#8220;We have collaborated with the industry&#8217;s best partners to develop this application, and are grateful that the judges were impressed with the richness and power of the learning experiences in the <i>Pocoyo PlaySet: Let&#8217;s Move<\/i> app.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><i>Let&#8217;s Move<\/i>, also a recent recipient of the 2017 Kidscreen Award for <i>Best Preschool Learning App-Tablet<\/i>, creates a fun and engaging educational experience, cultivating preschoolers&#8217; learning abilities through body movements and pedagogical games and activities, while encouraging kids to be physically active, following Pocoyo&#8217;s lead. Through <i>Pocoyo PlaySet: Let&#8217;s Move<\/i>, preschoolers build fluency in spoken English and expand their English vocabulary learning words, while <br \/>also sharpening their listening skills and ability to follow directions. These integrated suites of educational resources have been proven effective through studies and pilot implementations in USA and <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>All 15<i> Pocoyo<\/i> <i>PlaySets<\/i> are available on the Apple App Store and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/search?q=pocoyo%20playset&amp;c=apps&amp;hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">GooglePlay<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><b>HITN<\/b> is the leading Spanish-language media network focused on educational and cultural programing for the whole family. It reaches over 44 million homes across <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> through DIRECTV, DISH Network, AT&amp;T U-verse TV, Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast, Charter Spectrum, Frontier Mediacom, CenturyLink Prism, and Cablevision. For more information, log in to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hitn.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.hitn.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/344200\/HITN_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/344200\/HITN_Logo.jpg<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  HITN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BROOKLYN, N.Y.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 15, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hitn.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>HITN<\/b><\/a>, the non-profit, Spanish-language media network that provides educational and entertainment programming to more than 44 million American households across the country, announced today that its educational App &#8216;Pocoyo PlaySet&#8217;: Let&#8217;s Move has been honored as finalist for the 2017 Kids Imagination Awards, an annual awards program celebrating the best in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}