Educational & Fun Sites for Kids

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Nowadays, in order to get kids or even toddlers (young child who is of the age of learning to walk, 8-24mth old) stay quiet or stop crying or keep them busy, one solution is to switch on the TV/PC and let them watch cartoons or kids shows. It's amazing how much they like watching them! For slightly older kids, they may start to enjoy interactive applications online.



Below are some sites that may be useful to be in your browser favourite.



=========All-In-One=========

Website:
PBS Kids (http://pbskids.org/)

Type:
Site contains games, colouring activities, videos and music for kids.

=========All-In-One=========

Website:
Sprout (http://www.sproutonline.com/sprout/home/default.aspx)

Type:
Site contains games, colouring activities, videos and music for kids.

=========Videos=========

Website:
NeoK12 (http://www.neok12.com/)

Type:
Educational videos categorised from YouTube

Writeout:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/neok12-an-educational-kids-website-that-teaches-your-children/

=========Videos=========

Website:
KideoPlayer (http://www.kideoplayer.com/)

Type:
Random kid-safe videos from YouTube presented in a TV way one after another for a vverry long duration (i think).

Writeout:
http://pokenewyork.com/story/project-launch/meet-kideoplayer-family-safe-youtube/

=========Videos=========

Website:
Kideos (http://www.kideos.com/)

Type:
Another kid-safe video site categorised by age groups (0-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc)

Writeout:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/neok12-an-educational-kids-website-that-teaches-your-children/

=========Fun=========

Website:
PBS Kids (http://pbskids.kids.us/index.html)

Type:
Simple games for young kids, and there is Barney and Sesame Street as well!

=========Fun=========

Website:
Sesame Street (http://www.sesamestreet.org/home)

Type:
For kids and parents who like Sesame Street!

=========Drawing=========

Website:
Crayola (http://www.crayola.com/coloring_application/)

Type:
Colouring and Drawing online

=========Spelling=========

Website:
SpellingCity (http://www.spellingcity.com/)

Type:
List a few words and let your child listen to spell it out correctly. There are other games as well to have fun recognising words.

=========Maths=========

Website:
Math Flash Card (http://www.apples4theteacher.com/flash-cards.html)

Type:
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with different difficulty level. Probably can test kids who are learning abacus. :)

=========Worksheets=========

Website:
edHelper (http://edhelper.com/)

Type:
Printable worksheets for simple ABC, colouring to Algebra

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Referencing to most links above are found from MakingUseOf website. Let me know if you have more so that we can share them around here. :)

Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive

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Once Windows 7 is out, many of us may want to get it installed to our Netbook/Laptop/Desktop as it has proven to run much better then Vista.

However for some system without CD/DVD rom, this may be a problem. My previous post will not enable you to do that... as the image needs to be BOOTABLE.

Found this website with instuctions you need to make bootable usb!
I will bookmarked here for future reference:
http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

Run & Install and Backup CD & DVD images

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Nowadays, Notebook and Netbook may not comes with CD/DVD rom for you to read your disc. This may lead to problem when you need to install software from these disc. But you can easily find FREE solution to this. Below are the steps I uses.

1. Create image of the CD/DVD, commonly know as ISO image (I am using this to backup most of my CDs and DVDs disc to your harddisk just in case the disc gets damage, alternatively, you can just keep the physical disc one side, and just read from the image from a single click)
   Software: LC ISO Creator - small and portable
   
2. Copy the ISO image to your thumbdrive and plug in to your CD/DVD rom-less PC.
   
3. Install software to "insert" the image and read it as if it is from a CD/DVD rom
   Software: Virtual Clone Drive
   
4. After the installation, right-click on the ISO image to "Mount" and insert the virtual CD/DVD. This will run the CD/DVD as if it is running from a real CD/DVD rom. You can go into File Explorer to read the file in the Virtual CD/DVD drive as well.
   
5. To eject, right-click on the CD/DVD drive to "Unmount" the image.