PreSchool eLearning

Last week I wrote about how all the eLearning examples that have been shown to me while working my way through the MSIT program are for the adult learner. Then I mentioned eLearning for preschool age children. Well after asking if the MSIT department is missing something I decided to look in to preschool eLearning a little.

So off to Google I went to do a search. I was surprised how many sites were returned when I entered the search string “Preschool eLearning.”

I looked at a few and the one I liked was Kindersay.com. I went home and showed the site to my wife and she thought it could be helpful, educational and fun. After her review I thought I would present it to the preschool eLearning SME, my two-year-old son.

We sat him in his highchair and set the laptop in front of him just close enough so he could touch the trackpad to keep the computer form going to sleep.

He sat there for 30 to 45 minutes (and if you have children you know that is a long time)! The site has a flash program that displays a photo, the word for the photo and a lady that speaks the word. He sat there and cheered for the animals and repeated her the whole time.

This is a nice vocabulary building tool for Preschool and even could be used with English as a second language learners. It is very similar to the “Your baby can read” DVD set based on the research of Robert C. Titzer, Ph.D. It is not as good as the DVD series by Titzer but it is free!

Check it out Kindersay.com