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Today’s Bookmarks 05/04/2009
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simplified search engine
will be more attractive to elementary students
Hat tip to @joycevalenza.
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No Child’s Play: KIDO’Z Creates A Kid-Friendly Media Browser – Annotated
KIDO’Z is a pretty nifty Adobe AIR-powered desktop browser app that gives kids a safe and fun environment to play games, watch videos and/or visit pre-approved websites.
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and/or visit pre-approved websites
- Could improve information searching. Often Google displays too many results. It can be overwhelming. – post by todbaker
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What’s nice is that all these settings are taken into account at a content level, so KIDO’Z automatically caters the media it think is most suited for your kid(s) at first launch.
- Could customize by grade level. – post by todbaker
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To use the app, kids won’t need to know how to read or write since obviously the whole UI is quite visual of nature, and very colorful to boot.
- Effective for emerging readers and ELL. – post by todbaker
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
