Internet Tips & Tricks
By MARK DAVIS
General Manager, CommSpeed Internet Service
Vice
President, Prescott Computer Society
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Websites for Kids
The
Internet is loaded with resources for kids. Parents –
take some time with your children to visit the sites
listed here.
www.ala.org/parentspage
is a good
starting point. “Great Web Sites for Children” is
sponsored by the American Library Association. The site
is organized by subject, and contains hundreds of links
to useful sources of information for kids.
www.bandwidthmoms.com
can be used by dads
too! This site will help you to help your children with
their homework. It’s indexed by age group, from
pre-school through college.
www.yahooligans.com
is like the
standard Yahoo! index to the Internet, only it’s
designed for kids. Yahooligans is an excellent “home
page” for your kids.
www.ajkids.com
– Ask Jeeves for
Kids is similar to Yahooligans. Like the grown up
version of Ask Jeeves, you can ask questions and Jeeves
will find the answer for you. Try “Why do I need to
sleep?”
www.thinkquest.org/library
contains more than 5,000
web sites, every one built by kids for kids to use and
learn.
www.kids.gov
– Our tax
dollars are at work here. Kid.gov has links to
THOUSANDS of government agency sites designed for kids.
Most of them are really well done, too.
www.nick.com – The
official site for the Nickelodeon TV channel.
http://kids.discovery.com is produced by the
folks from the Discovery Channel.
www.beritsbest.com
is another
“portal” for kids, with links to
hundreds of great sites. I like this site because it’s
comprehensive and contains no advertising.
Other portal sites worth a visit include
www.4kids.com
www.kidsites.com
www.greatsitesforkids.com
www.netsmarts.org
www.surfnetkids.com
There’s more but I ran out of space! :-)
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