First Five iPad Games from Joystiq
Were you wondering what are the best Apps and games for iPad? Check out this list at Joystiq of your first Five fav iPad games!
Tags: iPad, iPad for kids, iPad games, Joystiq
Posts of the month June 2010
Three Minute Picture Show: movies made by kids
There’s an interesting event/contest coming up in early August from the Three-Minute Picture Show. This year, they are holding a special event for movies made by kids. You just have to make your movie through July, then (after you’ve registered to the website) submit it. You will have the chance of showing it at the final event being held in either San Francisco or Portland on a big screen and in front of a live audience! Read more at the Three Minute Picture Show website.
via Geek Dad
Image Credit: Three MInute Picture Show via Geek Dad
Tags: fun things to do with kids, fun with the kids, movies made by kids, Three Minute Picture Show
Kids Solutions to BP Oil Spill
Kids all over U.S. are the most concerned about the ecological disaster (and that’s quite obvious, since it’s going to affect their future more than ours)
Videos proposing solutions to the oil spill are all over the Net these days.
Above you can watch one of the cutest 
Tags: BP oil spill, geeky kids
Windows Live Messenger now available for iPhone
Just another reason why it could be difficult to keep your kids off your iPhone
Microsoft debuts its Windows Live Messenger, available as a free download in the iTunes App Store since yesterday. There are also a number of additional features (e.g. connections to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Hotmail accounts). Read more at Technologizer
Norton Online Family Report Webpage is out
Symantec has published the results of the survey they conducted of 2800 children and 7000 adults in 14 countries. The subjects covered are CyberBullying, Adult Content, Social Networking and other related areas. The report provide interesting insights on what kids do online and parents’ perception. You can read and download the whole report at The Norton Online Family Report Webpage (a few safety tips included). Do you know exactly what your kids are doing online?
Image Credit: Geek Dad
Tags: CyberBullying, kids'safety online, Norton, Norton Online Family Report, Safety, safety tips, social networking, Symantec
Microsoft presents its Kinect at the E3
At the E3 this weekend Microsoft announced the launch of Kinect, the development project formerly known as Project Natal, for this fall. There’s also an array already of new designed Kinect games, among which EA Sports Active 2 , Kinectimals, Dance Central…
Ready to put your hands on the new device? Read more here
via Family Computing
Tags: Dance Central, E3, EA Sports Active 2, Kinect, Kinectimals, Microsoft, Project Natal
Do TV and PC dull children’s brain and should they be banned until nine?
Bad news from Great Britain for all the geeky parents!
According to Dr Aric Sigman, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, exposure to computer screens in schools and nurseries is threatening the development of young children. The Doc is demanding a ban on screen technology until children they reach nine. The alleged reason is that children need to experience real world before undertaking virtual adventures in order to develop spatial awareness and other important skills.
Doc Sigman has also criticised a Government “nappy curriculum” requiring nurseries and childminders to teach children to turn on and operate televisions and computers before the age of two.
We at kidzmodo do not quite agree with this stand as we do think that ICT can and should be an important part of any child’s curriculum, preparing him/her for a well-skilled future.
Let us hear your voice about it…what do you think?
via Daily Mail
Tags: Aric Sigman, Daily Mail, development, ICT learning, learning, nappy curriculum, PC, Royal Society of Medicine
The American Museum of Natural History website for kids
We’ve already talked about the American Museum of Natural History here …but did you know they also have a website especially designed for kids called Ology where you can find lots of activities games, cards, projects trivia & fun facts about the natural world? Also, in the section “Kids & Families @ the Museum” you might schedule your next special “night at the museum” or other super fun activities to do with your kids.
Fun!
Tags: American Museum of Natural History, Edutainment, fun with the kids, kids & families, Ology, websites for kids
One Tablet Per Child?
OLPC has announced a partnership with Marvell to create a tablet PC to be sold for less tahn $100, the release deadline being January 6-9 2011. It sounds like an ambitious project (OLPC has already been criticized for his project “One Laptop Per Child” having failed to reach the goal hoped by the organization: the XO computers are, in fact, available for $ 175, a sum which is higher than the announced $100).
Read more here
Do you think this project will succed and children in developing countries will actually benefit from it or is the whole thing somehow unrealistic?
via Family Computing
Tags: Marvell, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, XO computer
PhoneBook Ride! Ride! by Kodansha/Mobile Art Lab
Kodansha and Mobile Art Lab’s PhoneBook Ride! Ride (aka PhoneBook Popo and Momo Ride! Ride, 2980 Yen/$32) aka when an “old-fashioned” cardboard children’s book meets iPhone and iPod touch apps. That’s how it works: once you purchase the book you can download the free PhoneBook – Ride! Ride! app from the App Store and then insert your iPhone or iPod into the middle of the printed Phonebook. Then you watch it as it plays interactive sequences that match the printed artwork. For now Japanese only!
via iLounge
Tags: Kodansha, Mobile Art Lab, PhoneBook, Ride! Ride
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