FW: Education versus Entertainment

[Cindy Shames]

Here are several options to look at.  I have personal experience with Edmark
(I have purchased numerous CD-ROM's for my son)and have seen and played with
the other two.

Edmark - www.edmark.com
Edmark makes a variety of educational CD-ROM's for school and personal use.
Many are done in a game format but all are educational and fun to play with.
My son, 10 years old, enjoys most of there software that we have purchased
(more than a dozen).

Advanced Learning Systems - www.amered.com
Education-based software working with all age levels.

Learning 2000 - www.learning2000.com
Education-based software working with all age levels.

Some additional companies to look at are:

Bellewether - www.bellewether.com
Human Asset Imaging series a multi-media life skills curriculum.

Tom Snyder Productions - www.tomsnyder.com
Educational software for all ages.

Most of these companies are willing to send sample CD's for you to preview.
The Clubs are in the midst of looking at and critiquing most of this
software as well as some others.  If I come across any other possibilities I
will let everyone know.

Cindy Shames
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater KC
cshames at bgc-gkc.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Youthlearn Discussion Forum
[mailto:YOUTHLEARN at LISTSERV.MORINO.ORG]On Behalf Of Victoria Vrana
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:58 PM
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Subject: [YL] FW: Education versus Entertainment

> In the meantime, does anyone have examples of activities that help an
> afterschool program move from the game/surfing level to the educational
> project level?
> Victoria
>