Family Computer Fun: Digital Ideas Using Your Photos, Movies, and Music will give you ideas for dozens of fun projects to enjoy with your family. The book starts with a quick tour of what's needed for the projects in the book, which doubles as a guide to buying a new PC or products to enhance your current one. Projects in the book include creating custom photos albums to share, editing photos to add effects or retouch, uploading home movies to edit and burn to DVDs, sharing video or photos over the Internet, and turning a PC into a home recording studio. Later chapters offer a quick guide to streaming video and audio to a TV and stereo in the living room. The author creates each project with tools that are both affordable and easy-to-use, and finishes with pointers to more advanced software should you want to explore further. Unlike other books on digital media, the activities in Family Computer Fun are designed with the family in mind, with software that anyone can use and projects that will be fun for the entire family to explore together.

Debate ranges over the effects of the growing utilization by the young of interactive screen-based technologies and the effects of these on vulnerable young chldren. This text is based on two years' research on 100 children, with entertainment screen technology in their homes, following them from home to school and examining the difference in culture in the two environments. The question is asked whether children are developing the necessary IT and other skills required from the maturing learner as we approach the 21st century. Issues such as gender, parenting, violence, censorship and the educational consequences of their screen-based experiences are at the forefront of the text's coverage.

The only activity guide on the market, Parents, Kids & Computers provides an innovative approach to using the computer as an educational tool and springboard for creative learning.

Simple programs written in BASIC for the beginning computer user.

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The Parents' Pocket Guide to Kids & Computers takes the guesswork out of buying children's software, and shows parents how to make Internet exploration a cool, safe learning activity for kids. The Guide is every parent's passport to high-tech fun and education. It features: -- Extensive, independent reviews of the Top 100 Kids' Software Titles and Top 100 Kids' Internet Sites, indexed by age and subject. -- Easy-to-use "Top 5" lists -- the best of the best kids' software and Web sites for subjects like reading, math, arts and creativity, nature and science. -- Kids' computer use at different ages: What parents should know. -- How to explore the Internet with kids, quickly, easily -- and safely. -- Making sense of computer and Internet jargon.

This easy-to-use book untangles the Web and guides the reader to the sites with the most fun and best entertainment for families. Informal, accessible, and upbeat, "Internet Family Fun" is a great introduction to the 'Net and its potential uses. Illustrations.

Back to school! The games in this book will be perfect for birthday parties, children camps, Sunday school, etc.The book will help your kids in learning how to think and work in the team. Also it gives many ideas of how to spend their time during outdoor activities. It will help to distract your children from the computer, and will allow them to spend their free time in a healthier and more fun ways.Besides, we used in this book the special font for children with dyslexia, so this book will be good readable also and for them.