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Please note: The reports in this section are not product reviews or tests; they're meant to spotlight options for you to consider, as well as milestones in children's online-safety technology development. Comments from readers on their own experiences with these products and services are most welcome - and, with your permission, we publish them. Do email us your own product reviews anytime!
Internet Activity Center (July 21, '00 issue)
The "Internet Activity Center" is a little gem of a software product strictly for small surfers. This children's Web browser doesn't have a long list of sophisticated features (a four-year-old can disable it), as so many online-safety products do these days, but there's something quite refreshing about that. If…
- You're smart and have the family's connected computer in the kitchen or some other high-traffic room,
- You at least check in every now and then with your child's computer activity,
- Your child's in the K-4th-grade age range,
- And you're looking for a "filtering" product that's very easy to use…
…this software's worth considering. With it, a child has access only to 1,000+ indexed Web sites for children. The product's publisher, Paul Jacobson, father of two, tells us the sites in this directory were all reviewed and chosen by "homeschooling moms in Grand Rapids, Mich.," so they're mostly educational. Categories in the directory include Math; Science; Spelling; Art, Music and Creativity; and Reference Works. We like to link you to further information about the resources we cite in the newsletter, but some search-engine research yielded only two places where the Activity Center is described. Warning: They're both e-commerce sites: eToys.com and Publishers Pipeline (the latter is a sponsor of ours).
If any of you try this product and would like to comment on the experience, fellow subscribers would probably appreciate your perspective. Please email us.
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