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by Jack Chorowsky (Editor), Family Computer Workshop Staff (Editor), Family Computer Workshop, BrainPlay.com
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Reviews Book Description Finally, a comprehensive, plain-English pocket guide for parents who want to make computers a fun, safe and educational part of their kids' lives -- but could use help figuring out what to buy and what to do! Software publishers are churning out hundreds of new kids' titles every year. And cyberspace is home to hundreds of kids' Web sites. How can parents keep up? Who's got the time to do the research, or money to burn on mediocre software? The Parents' Pocket Guide to Kids & Computers takes the guesswork out of buying children's software, and shows you how to make Internet exploration a cool, safe learning activity for kids. Researched and written by the editors of Family Computer Workshop and BrainPlay.com, the nation's leading on-line kids' software retailer, the Parents' Pocket Guide to Kids & Computers is every parent's passport to high-tech fun and education. Inside, you'll find: * Extensive, independent reviews of the Top 100 Kids' Software Titles and Top 100 Kids' Web Sites, indexed by age and subject. Parents and kids can click to any of the Web sites reviewed in the Parents' Pocket Guide from familycomputerworkshop.com. (Our Web site contains only links to kids' sites; to read our Web and software reviews, you'll need to buy the Guide!) * Easy-to-use "Top 5" lists -- the best of the best kids' software and Web sites for subjects like reading, math, arts & creativity, and nature & science. * Kids' computer use at different ages: What parents should know. * How to explore the Internet with kids, quickly, easily -- safely. * Making sense of computer and Internet jargon. About the Author -- Moye Thompson, Senior Editor at Family Computer Workshop. Before leaping into cyberspace, Moye worked at the Muppets, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and, most recently, Consumer Reports. There, she was managing editor of Zillions, Consumer Reports' magazine for kids. -- Abby Crowley, Family Computer Workshop's Internet Editor and resident "Net mom." Abby has a doctorate in education and has taught and trained teachers extensively in schools and universities. Though she spends far too much time in front of her computer, she finds plenty of time to get her hands dirty in the garden with her two sons and Labrador Retriever, Hobbes. -- Ginger Crichton is Software Reviews Editor for BrainPlay.com. A journalist and editor with almost 20 years experience (including a stint as national editor of the Dallas Morning News) Ginger writes software reviews for numerous parenting magazines and newspapers. With four young children at home, she doesn't have to look far to find eager testers for software. -- Cathy Miranker is a self-described "persnickety critic" and software columnist for national magazines who is always on the look-out for the very best in kids' software. She is the author of several books about kids' software and is the former co-curator of the "Best Software for Kids Gallery" at the Boston, Massachusetts Computer Museum. -- Jinny Gudmundsen is the founder of Choosing Children's Software, a consulting firm that helps parents, teachers, and schools select quality children's software. She writes reviews regularly for BrainPlay.com. -- Juline Lambert is a nationally syndicated software review columnist and reviewer for BrainPlay.com. She runs her own company, LearningWare Reviews, and homeschools her three children. In her "spare time," she is trying to develop a homestead on her five-acre homesite. -- Judy Pozar has been a "computer geek" since the Dinosaur Age (mid-70s) when she was a programmer in the era of punch cards. Now she writes software reviews for BrainPlay.com -- with help from her two sons, both avid computer users -- and is a programmer/analyst at the University of Massachusetts.
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