Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
Seterra is a quiz program for memorizing geography and country flags. It is a free education software. Current version is 2.83, which was released in August 2005.
Seterra is a challenging geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map exercises!
Sunday, September 18th, 2005
The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. We also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing.
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling.
The website has four basic levels for children of different age to learn reading and have fun.
It also provides printed materials for parents and educators and links to many other useful stuff. Highly recommended!
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
BBC Computer Tutor is a highly interactive and user friendly flash application that teachs how to use a keyboard, mouse or computer. I will introduce it to my sons. By the way, it is a good chance for my sons to listen English too.
Computer Tutor is a resource for people who don’t know how to use a keyboard, mouse or computer screen.
If you’re a friend, family member or tutor helping someone learn, all you need to do is choose your connection speed and start the resource. That’s it!
Computer Tutor presenter Amani is then on hand to take computer novices from start to finish step-by-step.
Update: My older son (now four year old) took around two hours to go through this tutorial.