EARLY CHILDHOOD, PRESCHOOL, AND KINDERGARDEN,
Children's Shareware Sites:

Dr. K's Preschool Workbook
http://www.ultranet.com/~karelsf/kids/

Illustration by Emma using KidPix As a father and uncle of several preschoolers (now preschoolers & kindergardeners), and longtime user of computers (esp. Macintosh) in (higher) education, I feel qualified to express some opinions about interactions between computers and preschoolers.

Kid's Stuff
http://www.rapidramp.com/Users/toolman/kids.htm

Mann's Coloring Book HHYF Fun Pages.

Children's Software Reviews
http://qv3pluto.leidenuniv.nl/steve/reviews/welcome.htm

This collection of WWW documents is intended as a repository for volunteer reviews of children's software produced by the users of the newsgroup misc. If you have some strong opinions about some piece of children's software (good or bad), or if you disagree with one of the existng reviews, please consider submitting a review of your own (see the guidelines for submitting).

Billy Bear Storybooks - Free Fun & Games Page
http://www.worldvillage.com/kidz/bilybear/wgames.htm

These games were created by the combined efforts of Grace Sylvan [Software & More] & Loraine Wauer [Billy Bear Storybooks] ...two Moms who enjoy being Moms! PreTeen & Teen Download Billy Bear Storybooks for Free Trial.

Low Incidence Unit site information
http://curriculum.qed.qld.gov.au/lisc/services/liu/siteinfo.htm

The focus of the service is to allow teachers, therapists, support staff, and other educators to gain access through the Internet to information and resources in providing effective educational support for students with special needs. The site has been created as part of the Low Incidence Unit’s commitment as a state wide support centre for students with special needs to provide up to.

Interesting Places for Parents
http://www.crc.ricoh.com/people/steve/parents.html

Yahoo is probably the largest and easiest-to-use categorized list of Web resources. But if you're like most parents with net access, you are probably at work, in which case your kids might not have the kind of access that you do.

Educational Software Cooperative (ESC)
http://www.edu-soft.org/escam.html

Every 10 weeks a CD with the latest and best shareware programs is published. publishes educational, phonics, multimedia authoring and multimedia utilties programs.

FOCUS KIDS ( Games )
http://www.focusmm.com.au/kids/games_l1.htm

This contains Suite 1 version 1.4 and Suite 2 version 1.1. All this for only $5.00 each. This Version is an upgrade that fixes some minor bugs and has incorporated suggestions from other users.

Favoritesiteschildcare
http://www.nara-licensing.org/favorite3.htm

Activities for Children -- Sites for parents and providers to find resources for constructive activities to do with children and sites that may be suitable for some children to explore. Child Health & Safety -- Sites providing information on health and safety issues that affect children in a variety of settings, e.g., home, child care, playgrounds.

Kids Fun Stuff
http://www.dualex.com/kids.htm

Cyberhaunts for Kids - A rich source of links for children of all ages to visit. Tristan and Tiffany's Daily Cool Stuff for Kids - For kids by kids!

The Family Games Web Center Guestbook
http://www.familygames.com/fg_guest.html

"Downloaded I Live at Santa's House from ZD-Net, and my 3 year old loves it. "My 2 1/2 yr old daughter loves I Live at Santa's House!

UCIS: The Ultimate Children's Internet Sites!
http://www.vividus.com/ucis.html

Summary: Sites for Parents and Educators: From internet cruising techniques to the newest live curriculum -- fun and educational material for the parent or teacher!

Educational Shareware
http://www.megalink.net/~dale/3edusoft.html

Summary: Preschool, Grade School, High School, College, Adult Education, Computer Tutorials, Ebooks, Reference, Teaching Tools. Small Business Administration's Shareware Page, for loads of business related shareware.

Ziff-Davis Shareware Awards - Family PC
http://www.downloadnow.com/zdawards/fpcfinal.html

Summary: Ziff-Davis Shareware Awards - Family PC. . Editors' Picks / Shareware Awards / Family PC Family PC.

Recommended Children's Demo Software
http://www.crosswinds.net/vancouver/~stephenchu/

Summary: 3D Movie Maker 4.2 Mb Shareware This program enables parents to create 3D cartoon animations with sound capability. This program enables parents to create 3D cartoon animations with sound capability.

Favorite Programs
http://www.landfield.com/faqs/misc-kids/software/section-1.html

Summary: Preschool: The Playroom - Broderbund Bailey's Book House, Millie's Math House, Sammy's Science House -Edmark Living Books - Broderbund. ? - Magic School Bus Middle School - ??? High School - ???. Top Document: Children's Software FAQ.

Tigger's Children's PC Shareware
http://gamesdomain.telepac.pt/tigger/pc/dolla.html

Summary: This program will appeal to a wide age group and is easy enough for preschool age children to use with a minimum of assistance from adults. After an image has been created it can be colored from a palette of 48 different colors, as well as saved for the future and printed on a variety of standard printers.

Ability's_Children's_Softwaren _ Page
http://www.ability.org.uk/chsward.html

Summary: Winner of the Shareware Industry Award, Ziff-Davis Shareware Award, Educational Software Cooperative People's Choice Award, and Shareware Magazine Editor's Choice Award. Fine files for the home PC For the family that downloads together: Family PC's Shareware Awards winners are crammed with great programs for learning and working and just plain fun.

Little Kids Links Page
http://www.fastlink.com.au/subscrib/bec/little.html

Summary: Disney Babe Babe Colouring-in Land Before Time III Babe, Casper and Balto games Pocahontas Colouring-in Pages Lion King Disneyland Toy Story Warner Brothers Animation Seasame Street Colouring-In pages Muppet Treasure Island Muppets Colouring-in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Sailor Moon Bananas in Pajamas Blinky Bill Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh hunt Thomas the Tank Engine Thomas Tank.

Kewl Sites -- May 1997
http://www.canadacomputes.com/tc/May97/ol-kewl.html

Summary: net/critter/ Critter Care Wildlife Society (Langley, BC) provides short- and long-term care to small, native mammal species and, through rehabilitation and public education, helps prevent suffering of injured and orphaned wildlife. It features educational games for preschool, grade school, ESL and ELT platform games for Windows and much more.

BabyPage.html
http://httpsrv.ocs.drexel.edu/grad/sg80y8x6/babypage.htm

Summary: Humongous Entertainment - Putt Putt, Fatty Bear, and Freddi Fish series.

TotLinks
http://www.kwebdesign.com/kdesk/totlinks.html

Summary: Welcome to Billy Bear Storybooks Hoorah for Billy Bear! You can make your own Billy Bear icons, read Billy Bear storybooks online, play games, listen to music and more.

Web Weavers - Free Clip Art - Links to Kids Pages
http://urwel.com/webweavers/kids.htm

Summary: . Webtime stories with webster for little webcrawlers Everything you ever wanted to know about Legos. Cute Kids Page: Stories about cute kids - submit your own!

Children's Software Reviews
http://qv3pluto.leidenuniv.nl/steve/reviews/welcome.htm

Summary: This collection of WWW documents is intended as a repository for volunteer reviews of children's software produced by the users of the newsgroup misc. If you have some strong opinions about some piece of children's software (good or bad), or if you disagree with one of the existng reviews, please consider consider submitting a review of your own (see the guidelines for submitting).

Games
http://www.asd.com/asd/edconn/tr-gam.htm

Summary: Educational Shareware Totware Kidsite-0ne of the finest collections of interactive educational games, software and information for kids from preschool through elementary and then some. A definite keeper for parents and educators.

Download Educational Software
http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/school/html/downloa1.htm

Summary: Another entry from Kidstuff, this program hones listening skills with a variety of challenges based on sounds. A "color-by-number" program that teaches the alphabet and shapes as well as numbers by offering the option of using them as the codes for color choices.

Mom's Favorite Sites for Fun and Education
http://www2.arkansas.net/~mom/fun.html

Summary: ZDNet Software Library (This is a great site that provides rated shareware and freeware to download. Inkspot: Resources For Writers (An excellent resource for writing help, includes a link to the full text of Elements of Style the classic resource for writing and grammar).

IBM Early Childhood Software Archives
Missouri Technology Center for Special Education
http://techctr.educ.umkc.edu/ibmec

Summary: Twenty different animated sequences appear on the screen at the touch of a key. Each shape correctly identified combines with other shapes to create a picture which becomes animated upon conclusion.

Cool Tools
http://www.sears-portrait.com/kidstuff/cooltoolsalt.html

Summary: When a number or letter is pressed on the keyboard, the computer displays it and pronounces the choice in either English or French. You can help Derik the Dinosaur rescue books from Rex the Tyrannosaurus by solving various memory tasks. More Like This: Click here to perform a search for documents like this one.

Children's PC Shareware Sites Page
http://www.gamesdomain.com/tigger/pc/pc-sites.html

Summary: Hirtle Software has the Random Test Generator to create tests using questions selected at random selected from test databanks which you create. Tommy's Toys has a huge selection of DOS programs for ages 8 up, including board games, card games, arcade games, word games, and more.

WELCOME TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ONLINE
http://www.ume.maine.edu/~cofed/eceol/welcome.shtml

The Early Childhood Education On Line Listserv community offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others interested in providing quality care and learning situations for young children birth through 8 years.
The Early Childhood Education On Line Website exists to promote and facilitate information management and exchange, and to serve as a resource and benefit for all children, their families, and all people who help them grow and learn.

PCshareware
http://techctr.educ.umkc.edu/PCshare

IBM/PC Shareware Collections. Early Childhood Collection. A collection of 17 programs that range from simple cause and effect to shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and readiness skills. Elementary Collection. This set includes 19 programs on elementary math

Enable Newsletter Issue 26
http://techctr.educ.umkc.edu/publications/Enable/issue26a

ENABLE: Technology for Empowering Special Education. Table of Contents. Four New Software Collections For Your Information Readers' Forum The Accessible Macintosh. Four New Software Collections. Shareware, Freeware, Public Domain.

KIDS AND COMPUTERS, Kids and Computers
http://family.starwave.com/resource/pra/C_19_1.html

KIDS AND COMPUTERS. Kids and Computers. Free and Inexpensive Resources What Is "Multimedia Technology"? Books What Is A CD-ROM? Periodicals Mail Order Catalogs What Is "Shareware"? Associations Museum F R E E A N D I N E X P E N S I V E

Special Education - Internet Resources from The Mining Company
http://specialed.miningco.com/mlibrary.htm

The definitive source for exploring your favorite interests on the net, brought to you by your Mining Company Guide

SPRY SUBJECTS
http://a2z-spry.lycos.com/Education/Early_Childhood_Resources/index.html

Education: Early Childhood Resources. Alphabetize | Mix It Up | Most Popular. Flix Productions Animated Shareware. At this site, find shareware.

Educational Web Sites
http://murphy.eee.org/users/csd/staff_dev/ed_links.html

Last Updated May 22, 1997. Central School District Educational Web Sites for Teachers and Parents. Index: Alphabet OnLine. Art To Zoo Online. Animal...

Learning Quest - #1 Education Resource
http://www.useekufind.com/teacheri.htm

Internet resources for teachers including projects, lesson plans, learning styles, special education, K-12 education, all academic subjects, distance


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