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From: jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Educational Software
Keywords: kids educational
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Date: 15 Oct 89 21:18:13 GMT
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I recommend ABZOO. This program encourages preschoolers to
write and read by presenting them with pictures of animals
with their names at 3 different levels of difficulty. At the
lowest level a keyboard is put up on the screen and the
child hits any key and an animal whose name starts with that
letter is shown, the talker says his name and then the keyboard
is presented with that key missing. At the highest level
the animal and his name is shown then is blanked and as the
child types the name in a portion of the animal is reshown.

My kids have gotten much enjoyment from this program and I
expect they will for some years to come. I suspect most kids
would enjoy it between the ages of 2-6. 

On the other hand I would avoid the BYTE BY BYTE Programs.
They are not good neighbors with other programs you might
want to run and we end up having to reboot everytime we use
those. The ideas in the BYTE BY BYTE programs seem appealing
to us adults but they just havent held my kids attention for
so long. They may be aimed at older kids that have learned to
use the mouse effectively perhaps. But then I would think that
a child that knows how to use a mouse effectively would already
be bored with the concepts of square vs circle or small vs bigger
or coloring a dinosaur tail red and his head yellow.

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will enjoy it f
 Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science     (716) 275-3055
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