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Here Come the Smart Toys! M on N The latest reviews of software, tech toys, video games & web sites th e in ly w PD F F a o nd r P m rin a t t! May 2006 Issue 74 Volume 14, No. 5 REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE Afaya-Pen American Idol: All Star Challenge DVD Game Arianna’s Nutrition Expedition Brain Age: Train Your Brain in page 4 Minutes a Day! Web Sites About Trees BrainWare Safari Bratz Rock Angelz Buzby: Breakin’ all the Rules Con, The page 5 Cosmeo Toy Fair Trends Creatures Exodus Curious George Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3 page 6 Daxter Two New Dotted Media Pens Dr. Mario & Puzzle League Drill Dozer EyeToy: Kinetic FlashFLIPZ Franklin the Turtle Game Wave Garfield the Search for Pooky Math Drill Hot Dots I Can Play Piano page 8 ImageBlender 3 on a DS? Inspiration 8 ION Educational Gaming System K12 Curriculum Kodak EasyShare C300 LeapTrack Assessment and Instruction System 4.0 LEGO Mindstorms NXT Letterpillar Logo Design Studio Mark-My-Time Digital Bookmark Math Blaster: Master the Basics My First TV Fun & Games: Sesame Street Elmo’s World MyBoard III Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient Ratchet: Deadlocked Robosapien V2 RSMedia Sibelius Student Edition Sims 2: The (Console Edition) Here Come Strategies for Writers Talky Talky Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop the Smart Toys! TeleStory Interactive Books WriteToLearn Due in August: LEGO Mindstorms NXT, p. 6 Can you name this building? See page 2. Digital technology has transformed architecture, transportation, business and medicine. Why not education? Last week I was amazed to step into the world’s fastest elevator (39 MPH) and took a 14 second trip to the observation deck of the May, 2006 world’s tallest building (101 stories). I wasn’t in Chicago or New York. I was in Taipei, Taiwan— in the heart of one of the most CTR is published monthly in laser print and PDF digital regions of the world, where I was speaking at a reading formats. conference. The building, called Taipei 101 is a standing monument to what can happen when smart people use computers. Even the EDITORIAL Warren Buckleitner, Ph.D., Editor name is binary, because the builders understood that without ([email protected]); Ann Orr, Ed.D., Contributing Editor; Rick Toone, computers and good software, making such a structure, in an Contributing Editor earthquake zone, would have been impossible. 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Readers are subject to the TERMS OF USE found at This Publication is Your Key to 7291 Online Reviews www.childrenssoftware.com/disclaim.html Your paid subscription to CTR includes access to the Children’s Software Entire contents © 2006 by Active Learning Finder database— our complete collection of reviews, archived since Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 1985. If you’ve lost or forgotten your password, please call 908-284-0404. The temporary password for the month of May: flower 2 Children’s Technology Review, May 2006 Directory CTR Editor’s Choice Selections for May, 2006 New titles are listed here, grouped by age. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! BrainWare Safari PRESCHOOL SCHOOL SUPPLEMENT Buzby: Breakin' all the Rules Creatures Exodus Buzby: Breakin' all the Rules, Afaya-Pen, www.afaya.com.tw, 19 Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3 www.DigitalPraise.com, 10 Arianna's Nutrition Expedition, Daxter Curious George, www.namco.com, www.mmseducation.com, 19 Drill Dozer 11 BrainWare Safari, www.brainware- Fridge Phonics Magnetic Word Builder Franklin the Turtle, www.gamefac- foryou.com, 19 Game Wave torygames.com, 13 Cosmeo, The Discovery Channel, Inspiration 8 * Note that reviews for ION Educational Gaming System, 20 Kodak EasyShare C300 Letterpillar titles marked with an aster- Hasbro, 7, 21 FlashFLIPZ , www.edin.com, 20 Mark-My-Time Digital Bookmark isk appear in the electronic Leapster TV Learning System, 7 Hot Dots, www.edin.com, 20 monthly edition which can Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon be downloaded from with- Letterpillar, www.leapfrog.com, 15 ImageBlender 3, www.tech4learn- Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online in the Software Finder (a Little Leaps Grow-With-Me ing.com, 13 PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient password is required). Learning System, 7 Inspiration 8, Ratchet: Deadlocked Kid-Tough Digital Camera, 6 www.inspiration.com, 20 Sibelius Student Edition My First TV Fun & Games: LeapTrack Assessment and Sims 2: The Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop Sesame Street Elmo's World, 16 Instruction System 4.0, 14 Playhouse Disney Preschool Time MyBoard III, www.chestercreek- Online, 17 tech.com, 21 TeleStory Interactive Books, Sibelius Student Edition, Coming in the June 1st Issue www.jakkstvgames.com, 7 www.sibelius.com, 18 In our next issue, we’ll bring you news from the E3 Expo, were we’ll be V.Smile Baby, 7 Strategies for Writers, www.inspi- searching for the latest trends in children’s interactive media. The list V. Smile Jammin’ Gym Class, 7 ration.com, 22 currently includes the following: EARLY ELEMENTARY CONSOLES FOR YOUNGER Age of Empires: The Age K12 Math Program DigitMakover, www.rad- CHILDREN of Kings K12 Physical Science Alive Chimpanzee Major League Baseball icagames.com, 7 Bratz Rock Angelz, www.thq.com, Aqua Real 3D Deluxe 2K6 I Can Play Piano, www.fisher- 10 Backyard Bugs Mark-My-Time Digital price.com, 7 Curious George, www.namco.com, Bust-a-Move Deluxe PSP Metronome Jibbi, www.radicagames.com, 7 10 CADPRO 4 Platinum MVP '06 NCAA Baseball Kodak EasyShare C300, Series Number Raiders www.kodak.com, 14 CONSOLES FOR OLDER CHIL- Cosmic Math SpongeBob Squarepants: Talky Talky, www.gemkid.com, 6, DREN Danger Rangers: Mission The Yellow Avenger 547 Safety Rules! DVD Star Wars Battlefront 2 22 Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix DragonBall Z: Supersonic Tiny Mouse Optical Write & Learn Spellboard 3, 11 Warriors 2 Virtual Business - Advance, 8 EyeToy: Kinetic, 12 FIFA Soccer 06 Management 2.0 Ratchet: Deadlocked, Fridge Phonics Magnetic Winnie the Pooh TV UPPER ELEMENTARY www.scea.com, 18 Word Builder Games American Idol: All Star Challenge Sims 2: The, www.ea.com,
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