Sunday, March 23, 2008

Computer wizard

Here is Liam on my computer (aka: mommy's pomputer). I put up with the sticky mouse and fingerprinted screen because he has so much fun playing on it, and I even catch him learning from time to time.

Over the past six months or so, he has become increasingly proficient at computing. It's actually a little bit scary. Not only can he manipulate the mouse like he was born with it in his hand, he can open up Firefox (two clicks on the orange marble), go to the bookmarks menu, select the specific website he wants to visit from the list of "his" sites (there are eight of them) and then navigate around to the games, videos, and other features. When he gets bored, he simply selects another site and away he goes.

Sometimes the games involve math or reading, which are a bit beyond his reach at this time, but with a little help he does just fine. I'm sure Lily will take to it just as easily. And then they can both teach me.

Liam's favourites:
tvokids.com
pbskids.org
kidscbc.ca
thewiggles.com
doodlebops.com
nickjr.com
treehousetv.com
thisisdanielcook.com


2 comments:

Matt. said...

Autumn loves to use Skype to call Nanny and Granddad. To her, the computer is a phone, TV, radio, photo album and the place where she sees videos of her and Lucy.

JFB said...

Isn't it crazy??