WHAT THE WEB HAS FOR TODAY'S POINT-AND-CLICK KIDS.Byline: Tim Grobaty Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire It's heartening heart·en tr.v. heart·ened, heart·en·ing, heart·ens To give strength, courage, or hope to; encourage. See Synonyms at encourage. Adj. 1. to find that, with the increasing popularity and accessibility of the World Wide Web, more and more kids are spending less and less time in front of the boob tube. Of course, when we were kids, we spent hours and hours in front of the boob tube, and look how good we turned out. Might be that Web children one day will turn out to be a nation of point-and-click morons. But that's doubtful, when you consider the wealth of educational sites available to kids on the Web nowadays (as opposed to the olden old·en adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to time long past; old or ancient: olden days. [Middle English : old, old; see old + -en, adj. days of 18 months ago). James Laub, who teaches computing to 12- to 14-year-olds at Franklin Middle School Franklin Middle School is the name of many middle schools, usually named after Benjamin Franklin, including:
First, there's the Interactive Frog Dissection (Netfrog) site, which takes the real-life (as it were) dead frog out of the students' hands and replaces it with a cybermodel whose dissection you can watch via downloadable QuickTime video clips. For our money, though, a better frog-dissection site is the Frog Dissection Kit, dedicated to the carving up of a frog named Fluffy. Here, you can flip the frog Flip the Frog is an animated cartoon character created by American cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. He who starred in a series of cartoons produced by Celebrity Pictures and distributed through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1930 to 1933. over, or view it from any angle. It's not as graphic, being animated rather than photographed, but it appears to be more advanced and more informative about the inner workings of the amphibian amphibian, in zoology amphibian, in zoology, cold-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Amphibia. There are three living orders of amphibians: the frogs and toads (order Anura, or Salientia), the salamanders and newts (order Urodela, or Caudata), and the . It's also available in several languages. Laub's students also nominate the Cambodian site, Beauty and Darkness, an aptly named source that covers the rich and tragic history of that country. The site has numerous offerings, including a Photo Gallery that ranges from Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (nŏm pĕn, pənŏm`) or Phnum Penh (pən  m`), city (1994 est. pop. street scenes to the somber sight of skulls at Chhoueng Ek and views of prisoners taken prior to their execution. There are also pages devoted to artful aspects of Cambodian culture, including dance, painting, sculpture and music. Next, we move over to the art and genius of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (də vĭn`chē, Ital. lāōnär`dō dä vēn`chē), 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. at what Laub calls the best da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. museum and, while there are several sites dedicated to the man, the Leonardo da Vinci Museum does, indeed, appear to be the best. The museum site is divided into four ``wings.'' The east wing features the artist's oil paintings, including the greatest hits ``Mona Lisa'' and ``The Last Supper Last Supper, in the New Testament, meal taken by Jesus and his disciples on the eve of the passion. Jesus broke bread and passed a cup of wine among the disciples, identifying himself with the bread and the wine and linking the meal to his impending death on the ,'' each accompanied by bits of lore surrounding the work. So, we've diced up Fluffy, explored Cambodia, stuck our nose down a volcano and built a da Vincian sequin-o-matic. Enough with the serious stuff. What do Laub's students do when it's the Web equivalent of Miller time? They hit the softer sites relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc various aspects of pop culture, especially those associated with several areas that one day will be looked back at as contributing factors to the downfall of civilization, including ``Melrose Place  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. ,'' Hello Kitty products, Nintendo Games List of Nintendo games can refer to:
``Sanrio is the spot where all the young girls go first'' when it's free-time on the school's computers, says Laub. Teen-age boys, says Laub, hustle over to the Nintendo site, where you can find all manner of product information relating to the company's latest video games. Gender finds common ground on the remaining sites. Peeps Republic is a cyberzine devoted to the latest in youth pop culture, especially movies and music. For TV, kids' favorite spot is the Fox network's Foxworld, a springboard to further Web pages relating to ``The Simpsons,'' ``The X-Files,'' ``Melrose Place,'' ``Millennium'' and other Foxy programming. Where to find them Netfrog: http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/frog/menu/html Fluffy (frog dissection): http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html Cambodia: Beauty & Darkness: http://members.aol.com/bsharp26/cambodia Volcano World: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu Smithsonian's volcano page: http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp Mega List (volcanoes): http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/otherlinks.html Leonardo da Vinci Virtual Museum: http://www.leonardo.net/museum/main.html Sanrio: http://www.sanrio.com Nintendo: httww.atlantic-records.com CAPTION(S): Box Box: Where to find them (See Text) |
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