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KidsClick! search engine for kids!

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:36:44 -0500

Via BloggingBaby, there is another new search engine for kids, KidsClick.

KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites. And, much like a library, KidsClick has categories to help find results on certain topics like Science and Math, The Arts, Society and Government. These categories allow you to focus in on your topic and get more relevant results. KidsClick! is ad free, but there is one one caveat

KidsClick! is not an Internet filter. It does not prevent client web browsers from being used to surf any URL address that the user inputs. It is intended to guide users to good sites; not block them from “bad” sites. However, it could be used in conjunction with a filter product where law allows filters to be used.

If your child is doing research for school, KidsClick is worth looking into.

Hints on using Google for kids

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:45:00 -0500

Google can be a very useful tool when doing research for a school project or just for fun, but there are some tricks that can make your searches more accurate.

Science News for Kids has good information and an experiment on how kids can get the most useful information when searching on Google.

“Google” is the name of the most often used search engine on the Internet. “Googol” is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. It’s a very large number! Want to know how to get less than a googol hits on Google? Do this experiment to test different search terms and find out.

It’s helpful advice for all of us.

Long Distance Learning

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:19:00 -0400

First it was customer service, then technical support, now your children can be tutored by someone thousands of mile away in another country.

From today’s CNETNews:

The world of Web 2.0 and the global economy have merged once again, this time to deliver online tutoring sessions that can cost less than a tank of gas (though these days, that isn’t saying much).

Read the entire article here.