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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Educational Software for Kids
Message-ID: <91170.170547UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 21:05:47 GMT
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In article <15301@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck
McManis) says:

>Anyway, for small kids especially, get some clip art of various
>things like apples, dogs, cats, people etc. Then use a big font
>like Helvetica 24 bold and put up pictures and words and have the
>kids click the mouse on them. It is really very easy to do and
>if you get enough of them Innovatronics would surely be interesed
>in distributing your disks for profit.

My 3 year old stays happy for hours (well, minutes, anyway) just
clicking on things and dragging them around.  I made him a disk with
a couple of open windows, lots of drawers, and little pictures linked
to a viewer.  One of the windows is tied to speak:  When he types,
it talks gibberish.  When he clicks on things, it shows pictures.
Etc etc etc.  Good for his motor skills, I guess.