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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Learning with Nemo





Learning with nemo is a nicely animated adventure program, leveraging the setting and characters from the popular movie. In this adventure, the user is invited to help Nemo and Dory play a scavenger game, collecting periwinkles to gain points. Clicking on many of the other colorful underwater objects leads to simple learning points, or funny animated actions. After the periwinkles in a given location are all collected, the gang moves on to a learning game. These involve basic preschool skills, like object counting, shape recognition, pattern matching, and simple addition.

Learning with Nemo incorporates a collection of basic preschool learning exercises: color, shape, and pattern recognition; number and letter identification; counting skills; and simple math. These exercises provide practice opportunities for the young user, without the potential boredom-inducing repetition sometimes found in simple drill-only programs. However, this comes at the cost of less practice, and no real instruction.

Its test also shows abouth the results that the kids really like this software, the four and five year old ones were quite familiar with the characters and had some experience using a computer and similar click and explore types of programs. Kids who had no familarity with this program had to to be given more care giver guidence.

Learning with Nemo is a fun preschool skills practice program for four and five year-olds. Younger children may need additional support to use and enjoy the program.

The rating of this software through educational means is 3 out of 5 and in kids appeal it is 4 out of 5. So this happens to be a more likely suitable program for kids from ages of 2-5. This program is a game cum software where kids won't get bored and would love it, specially because of Nemo because it is one of the most appealing cartoon character in Kid's lives.

This particular software is for $19.99. The website where one can buy online is Disney Shopping
This software is very suitable for boys and girls.

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