Keeping it interesting
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Seven educational software for children are evaluated and recommended for parents wanting to put together a software library for their children. KidPix, sold for $59.95 and made by Broderbund Inc in DOS and Macintosh versions, is a graphics arts program designed to encourage children's creativity. Broderbund also makes KidPix Companion for the Macintosh, a $39.95-program that lets children create slide shows of their drawings, complete with sound effects and transitions. Broderbund's Playroom, sold for $44.95 for DOS, $49.95 for Macintosh and $39.95 for Apple II, is designed for kids in preschool to second grade. It uses both animation and sound and does not require reading or typing ability because it uses the point-and-click technique with a mouse. A Silly Noisy House, made by the Voyager Company for Macintosh and sold for $59.95, is similar to the Playroom but offers more choices because it uses CD-ROM to store more information. Time Treks from Earthquest Inc, sold for $59.95, teaches history by taking kids on a fun trip through time. The $79.95-Knowledge Adventure for DOS from Knowledge Adventure Inc is a data base through which children, or even adults, may choose to travel randomly or in a structured manner. The same company offers Isaac Asimov Science Adventure for DOS for $79.95. This program teaches kids about the natural and physical sciences, as well as about inventions and scientists.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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An adventurous maze that leads to learning
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Knowledge Adventure, $79.95, from Knowledge Adventure Inc, La Crescenta, CA, is an educational software package that incorporates some multimedia and some hypertext features. The program consists of a database of text, sound and pictures. There are bits of information about science, art, history, music, literature, nature and architecture. Information can be interrelated in a complex hypertext-like fashion, so that the program's user moves through the information in a way that reveals how various topics are related. Knowledge Adventure runs on MS-DOS microcomputers with at least 320Kbytes of system memory and 6Mbytes of space on a hard disk. It requires an EGA or a VGA monitor; a mouse is recommended. Six megabytes is not much space for so complicated a program. If Knowledge Adventure comes out in a CD-ROM version, which would allow for more information, the program could be improved.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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