Educational Software, the Right Tool for every Occasion!
It seems only a short time ago that educational software, was a novel idea, and yet now it is a staple both in the classroom and on the home computer. These days educational software for children includes areas of learning from maths to music, from literacy to learning a new language. There are, to be sure, very few subjects that cannot be at least in part learned on a computer. To assist in the important process of becoming literate, a huge variety of kids educational software packages are produced which help the child learn to spell, some help improve their writing skills, some are intended to expand a child’s vocabulary, and of course there is an extensive range of beautiful interactive books on the market to help them learn to read.
For kids just starting to read there are some good phonics packages and there are special word processors designed for children too. Many schools now have their own website and children can publish their work on the web which is a great way to inspire them to get writing. Maths seems the most obvious subject for learning on the computer, and educational software for young children is available to help with counting, other packages concentrate on helping them learn the characteristics of and important words associated with 2D and 3D shapes such as squares, triangles and cuboids, some expose children to the vocabulary of maths, words like ‘bigger’,’ smaller’, ‘up’, ‘down’, ‘many’ and ‘few’.
As children grow older, educational software packages are made to help with learning their times tables, which is perhaps an improvement on simply reciting ’six sixes are thirty-six’ and so on, by rote! Software exists to help with mental arithmetic, learning about and using spreadsheets, money, time and 2D and 3D shape geometry. Children enjoy using computers and educational software can give them an entertaining way to learn, with the advantage that a child can repeat something as many times as they want to, computers don’t get bored!
A well thought out education package adds variety and freshness to the experience of practising skills, reinforcing things taught by the teacher or learned from books. Also parents like to be able to help their children make progress, and acquiring suitable educational software for their kids to play with on the home computer is one way they can help their child get ahead. Kids educational software can help improve learning in a huge number of areas; there are packages covering almost every subject known to man. For example, Art. Young children are used to drawing with crayons, felt tip pens, paint and paper, and drawing and painting programs are a completely different and exciting way to create images. Children love cartoons, and now there is a way to create their own animations using special software, something to impress their Mums and Dads and friends!
There is a totally amazing number of software packages designed to assist learning. Some software gives kids the chance to become young composers, and there is an educational software which helps improve a child’s ‘ear’ for music. There is at least one cookery package, and that’s without giving a thought to all the packages covering history, science and geography.
You can even get kids educational software which helps them learn about the Moon, an excellent software is SpexWorlds!Lunar a Moon base game from Aspex Software. This is a fascinating program and gets kids involved in building an on-screen Lunar base, with modular pods, space vehicles, space men and even an alien being! The colour of the lighting can be changed from white to red to purple and by adjusting the lighting, kids change the location of the base to Triton or Io or the fantasy world of Krypton. They will also learn of the original 1969 Moon landing, as the software is provided with a Moonlander and they can take an on-screen Moon walk! SpexWorlds!Lunar Moon base game is for kids aged 6 plus and is available FREE for a limited time. All you have to do is visit Aspex educational software, download it and there you are, on the Moon!
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on May 22, 2006 at 10:48 pm
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lol this is all too cute re: Dan the man that is why I am here too… never mind the fact that he had originally snatched this track from my iPod!
Krista
on May 22, 2006 at 10:59 pm
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Dan is the Man!!!!
on May 22, 2006 at 11:22 pm
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I'd say
1. anti-virus software: AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/ for free version http://free.grisoft.com) or Avast (http://www.avast.com)
2. anti-hacker software: I don't know, never used any, never need any
3. anti-abuse software: Don't know either (is there any software categorized as anti abuse?)
4. anti-spammer software: Well, why would you need it? Spam is handled by mail server not you.
5. firewall? Zone Alarm (http://download.zonelabs.com/)
6. anti-trojan and worm software: most antivirus product also include antitrojan and antiworm software so : AVG
They are all free or have a good and functional free version that often best competitor's paid product.
on May 22, 2006 at 11:45 pm
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Try this
http://www.bsrsoft.com/DownloadBSR.asp
And here are the directions to use it.
http://www.thesilver.net/WebCamRecording.htm
on May 23, 2006 at 5:14 am
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All you need to do that is a computer. With a program like FL Studio, you don't even need a MIDI keyboard (piano). You can use the keyboard on your computer to tigger the instruments in FL Studio. Of course, if you can get a MIDI keyboard it would be best though.
All you need is a USB to MIDI cable, about 30-40 bucks and start up FL Studio and you are good to go.
Check out the demo of FL Studio here: http://flstudio.image-line.com/documents/download.html
Make sure you read the F1 help manual to get started. You can import any VSTi (virtual instrument) into FL Studio. Image-Line makes several, the flagship being "Sytrus" which comes with the XXL version of FL Studio at a major discounted price.
If you end up liking FL Studio, here is a link I used to buy my FL Studio with a 10% discount on the ENTIRE first purchase, anybody can use it:
https://support.image-line.com/jshop/shop.php?offer=Default&promo=BFHEHAH486
Once you buy FL Studio from image-line's online shop, you get FREE LIFETIME updates..meaning you don't pay a cent each year they release a new version (9,10,11, ect.. for free).
Good luck and have fun
on May 24, 2006 at 7:30 pm
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lol @ 723465 and kahisawheel thats y i checked this vid out and tbh it sucks.