Software and URLs
Hi Everyone,
Below and attached are the URL’s that we can bookmark on the New Macedonia computers tomorrow and Saturday. I began with some more general web portals that list a large number of sites. I also included a few individual sites for educational games and typing. At the end is the URL listing a number of free religious software programs.
Web Portals (General Purpose Web Sites that offer a wide variety of resources)
1. Internet Public Library KidSpace http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace
2. GetNetWise http://kids.getnetwise.org/
GetNetWise’s Four Web Sites/Portals for Kids
The Children’s Partnership Suggested Sites
The American Library Association’s 700+ Sites (Also listed separately below)
Wired Patrol Approved Sites
Enough is Enough Recommended Sites
http://kids.getnetwise.org/kidsites/
GetNetWise’s Tools for Families **INCLUDING MONITORING SOFTWARE
http://kids.getnetwise.org/tools/
“Search or browse for Internet safety products, including those that filter explicit or violent content, monitor a child’s Internet access, or limit time online. See sample contracts for kids’ Internet use.”
3. American Library Association http://www.ala.org/
ALA Cool Sites for Kids
http://www.ala.org/greatsites
Internet Safety: Resources for Parents and Children
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/techinttele/internetsafety/internetsafety.htm
Search Engines for Kids
1. Ask for Kids (formerly Ask Jeeves Kids) http://www.askforkids.com/
2. AOL@SCHOOL http://school.aol.com
General Homework Sites
1. Information Please http://www.infoplease.com
2. FactMonster http://www.factmonster.com
3. FunBrain http://www.funbrain.com
Typing Tutors
1. Learn 2 Type http://learn2type.com
2. Free Touch Typing Program http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/
Child’s Play (Games)
Young Children
1. PBS Kids http://pbskids.org
2. Nick, Jr. http://www.nickjr.com
3. Sesame Workshop http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet
Elementary School Kids
1. MaMaMedia.com http://www.mamamedia.com
2. Kid’s Castle (Smithsonian Magazine) http://kidscastle.si.edu
3. Cartoon Network.com http://www.cartoonnetwork.com
Free Religious Software http://www.freechristiansoftware.org/
Religion Web Sites
Bible Gateway http://www.biblegateway.org
Per ALA’s Great Web Sites for Kids, Bible Gateway “is an excellent site to search the Christian Bible, in one of seven languages, textually as well as by specific categories, phrases, or terms.” It indicates which sources are appropriate for elementary-aged youth and middle school-aged youth. It provides additional resources such as audio bibles, commentaries, various e-book editions of the Bible, dictionaries, study tools, and comprehensive, biographical, survey, and chronological bible reading plans.
Religion-Online http://www.religion-online.org
Per Irene McDermott, “Religious scholar William F. Fore established this site to make major works of religion available to his divinity students… Browse this extensive free-full text collection through a subject directory that covers the major issues faced by religion today. Explore writings about the Bible…and modern ethics, social issues, and practical theology (read: mental health counseling). Fore presents the full texts of writings ‘presenting many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship’” (The Librarian’s Internet Survival Guide, 2nd ed., page 108).