Tagged: childrens software

by Roger Frost  TES 1996 CD-Rom will be a one billion dollar market by the end of 1997 say leading software publishers Broderbund. With predictions this grand, and with a market already so huge,...

Software can put a bit more sense into the computer (Roger Frost TES 1998)Microsoft’s ‘My Personal Tutor’ is a pair of titles with the claim to be the first educational software that matches its...

by Roger Frost, TES Lego Racers (age 8+ £39.99) is a racing game plus. You can expect all the thrills of a very good racing theme: great model cars, Lego themed tracks and the...

(Roger Frost TES Xmas 1999) Game of chess anyone? Some games have kudos that computer games have a hard time to match. Telling people you play space invaders all night can have you banished...

(Roger Frost TES 1996)Anything that claims to develop essential maths and language skills is a magnet to parents and teachers. A software trade show, though with murderous games, showed a big crop of children’s...

Test your child software (age 6-11)Do you really know how well your child is doing at school? Well it says that on the box and it would be crazy to not to care. What...

The best news this Xmas is that the computer has present shopping sorted. There is now a CD-Rom to suit every interest from astronomy to genealogy and from gardening to games. There is no...

The magic of computers is in how software turns a machine into anything. One moment it’s a typewriter and the next it’s a calculator – turning it into a Christmas present ought to be...

If you want to see new software you have to go visit a trade show. Next January’s BETT show is for teachers, while autumn’s ECTS is for the massive Xmas home market.ECTS is a...