Tuesday and Wednesday plans
Hi Guys,
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE–I DON’T THINK WE NEED IT?
As long as we can download one or two of the free religious software programs, I don’t think we need to worry about free educational software. Rather, they could access educational sites and resources and games via the web. (Perhaps this might free up processing power if we don’t download too much stuff?) As we discussed at one point, we can bookmark some good sites, and we can give them my printouts and/or photocopies describing these sites. The printouts and photocopies would help if the internet isn’t connected by December 1st, and they could serve as a handy reference in case they lose bookmarks, for example.
I have some good kid-friendly web portals and sites that list all kind of educational resources and games. These sources include typing tutor sites and homework help-many come from Irene McDermott’s The Librarian’s Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High-Tech Reference Desk (025.042M143L2006)-I have a photocopy of Chapter 5 about the Internet for Kids for NM staff that will give them numerous sites to explore.
If NM wants good educational software, I have a Consumer Reports article for them that has some reasonably priced educational software grouped by age–I highlighted those that should work with their computers and don’t need lots of processing power for fancy graphics.
MONITORING SOFTWARE
As for monitoring software, I have printouts about those that were ranked highest by Consumer Reports (Safe Eyes 2006 and Spector Pro 6.0). I also have a printout from GetNetWise which has info about all kinds of monitoring software.