Great review from Common Sense Media who road-tested our app, checked on our safety & privacy work and followed through all the way to seeing their photos on our site.
From their review:
Plum and the other Plum Landing characters may not be familiar to kids who haven’t played their games on the PBS Kids website, but that won’t hinder the fun. Photo assignments include specific items likes leaves, birds, or rocks; some that are more open to interpretation like funny things outdoors and change of seasons; and some that get kids thinking critically like foods, patterns, and animal habitats. Each step is explained verbally to kids and is easy to follow. Kids can undo and redo photos if they want, and the app offers safety reminders like checking with parents before going outside and not including people in the images they submit to the website. Kids will have fun capturing the photos, and seeing their work online is pretty thrilling, too. Before photos are published, safety protocols ensure they don’t include images of people. The note upon submissions says to check in a week to see the photo, but test posts showed up within a few hours — which is a timeframe more in sync with keeping kids’ excitement and interest up.
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