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Microsoft® Focus on K-12
--MicroSoft has several on-line demos of some of its kidware software that are somewhat usable as limited lessons, but mainly it's kidware demos and info about microsoft school products to download or read.Computer Express!
--The only existing on-line "phone order" computer games-and-eduware dealer has gone web. A huge catalog of Mac games and eduware, and a much huger one for IBM-klones. Unfortunately, it's all categorial lists, with no underlying list-by-software-title so you'll find great eduwares under "strategy game" and suchlike. However--and this is totally unique so far--each and every software is "reviewed" in a screen-length tex titem (in a gopher hole as yet--the dealer promises to upgrade this to easier-to-read HTML docs). What should you get for your school that isn't in Eduware vendor catalogues? Every school should have the marvelous King's Quest VII (Princess Rosella gets kidnapped, and the Queen goes looking for her). And...sectre Supreme, whose educational values, er, well, um exposing our youth to on-the-job network recreations of high-wage yup professionals (you can hold recess tournaments; give high-point awards). Tetris Gold's another loved by girls of all ages, whose educational value is er, um, that they love to play it. Tournament, hall of fame award. Incidentally, I logged all student activity on my lab net, and totalled it up at school year-end. Kids who had the max game hours on 'educationally worthless but popular" games had the max hours on everything else--finishing complete h.s. science course from CDROM's, creative art projects, word-processed letters and diaries, "actually educational" games like Super Munchers and Operation Neptune (math). So don't turn up your nose--like the EduVendors do--at computer games kids spend a lot of time on--because that seems to tune them in to everything else they can do with computers. CE takes school purchase orders. Personal orders by credit card or COD-certified check or money order only.MECC Home Page
--Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium--largest educational software company. Discounts, product info. One of the MayaQuest program sponsors, they market Amazon Trail educational software for Macs and PC's that has historical info about Indians of that area.Mountain Lake Software Home Page
--Comapny makes a story illustrator software for Macs, a test generator and some other utilities for teachers, as well as some free fonts. Downloadable demos of its products. Sponsors a CyberKids on-line magazine.
CyberKids Launchpad
--Software company sponsors an on-line kids' magazine that includes interactive correspondence, pointers to fun and educational web pages.These were the only software companies I could find on the web with some searching (May of 1995), although a number of them have FTP sites for demos and bug-patches of their products. I'll keep looking for their web pages; most of them are sure to do it.
Please email me recommended web pages you found that would be useful additions to this page's references for native schools to point to for teacher or student curriculum materials, background, or student research projects. Give the exact page reference--you can get it off your NetScape BOOKMARK.HTM file. Be sure to place a bookmark on every page you find interesting. You may never find it again, otherwise.
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