Regina Finan caught C I A in the Camera Eye
Focal Parallax [Re: Internet]
 CIA> Could you post a list of -good- non-crippled, preferably non-windoze
 CIA> children's / educational programs, and perhaps a web or ftp site
 CIA> where some may be found?
 RF> It is really super hard for me to go through my list.  I have not
 RF> really looked at them as of yet.  I just started downloading whatever
 RF> looked interesting.  We have 3 gigs available to download to so I can
 RF> d/l to my hearts content.
  Well, when you do, as you find particularly nice programs, post a note 
bout
  it for us :)
 RF> usual shareware stuff like Math Rescue, Word Rescue and Phonics
 RF> program.
 I haven't found any phonics progs, cept one that's basically an adult
 reference.  If you have something a child could use, let us know the name of
 it at least =)
 RF> Most shareware are crippled so I can't really help ya there
 RF> either. 
 Nah, I have quite alot of freeware, and even some decent shareware (a few
 I've even thought worthy of registering ;)  I'm pretty strict about what I
 allow on my board, naggy, cheesey crippled shareware authors need not apply
 ;p  :)
I think the freeware scene is just bustin' out all over.  I run linux on one
box, netted to dos; Caldera is ready to release the source for DOS, and that
should only push the freeware market deeper into Micro$loth territory :)
 RF> I found alot of Dos ones at:
 RF> http://www.gu.edu.au/aeres/edsw/dossoft.htm 
 I'll look that up..  I haven't even thought of using a web search to look 
or
 files, it seems ftpsearch (http://ftpsearch.unit.no/ftpsearch) is the only
 system with a decent file database, but it's in Europe, and most of its data
 is for european ftp sites (they do have some of North America's major sites,
 coast/simtel, among them) ..
 RF> What Web browser do you use?
 Lynx, in Linux.
 RF> rfinan@voyager.net
  Mine are below.
 RF> although they do like some of the younger stuff.  About where is he at
 RF> academically?
 Hrmm, at least at the expected level, kidergarten/1st grade.  In certain
 things he beyond that, especially math. He seems to intuitively grasped 
lace
 value very early. I've never sat down and 'taught' it to him, but he counts
 to 100, very naturally. I was impressed at least :)  He's not so good with
 writing, he spends too much time typing, but he's starting to pick it up. We
 buy lots of dot-2-dot books and color pencils for practicing :)
 Ohh, and he cracked my password to the game Abuse, heh, chip off the old
 block (Ok, it was an 'obvious' password, but we never told him what it was,
 and he didn't get to see me typing it! :)
 RF> At this site I found a program for phonics that has (I
 RF> believe) 5 or 8 zip files.  Phonics would be your best bet for his
 RF> age.
  Oww, I'll definitely look for that, thanks!
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