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From: dalka@cbnewsc.att.com (kenneth.j.dalka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Educational Software for Kids
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.135201.14740@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 13:52:01 GMT
References: <91170.170547UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <91170.170547UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, by UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer):
> 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.

I've got about a dozen educational games for kids that my kids love.

At the zoo	coloring program with animal sounds
consoundtration like the game consentration except with letters and numbers
TMNT coloring	coloring prog of the Nija turtles
first shapes	by first byte, teaches shapes
Barney bear	theres 2 or 3 barney bears in the series teaches shapes,colors
		letters.....
Discovery series these teach math, spelling, and lots of other things.
Math blaster	teaches math
Kinderama	teaches math


lots of others I can't remember

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