Tuesday, May 17, 2005
kids-online.net
This site is a general activity site that I would find useful in my work only as a site that students who are parents might want to visit together with their children. There are lots of activities organized in 6 major areas. The Scholastic Book Club area, for example, includes a writing area, a test-taking strategy area, a homework area and an area for very young children. Except for the Scholastic Book Club area, however, this site is very commercially oriented with the other major areas completely structured on television (the WB Kids area, Fox Kids, and Disney Channel) or on other commercial enterprises of dubious educational content such as Pokemon. It is so heavily commercially oriented that I would most likely recommend to my students that they skip the kids-online.net homepage and go directly to the scholastic homepage bypassing much of the commercial garbage.
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On initial sign-on and periodically do parents need to monitor the activities of their children on this site. I do not think the parent needs to stay with the child. There are some great fun and educational places the child can visit and learn. The parent or instructor can always cancel or delete information that does not need to be revealed.
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