from [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Many years back I have created, as part of my dissertation, software programs to teach/learn word recognition and recall at the preschool level, using computer graphics representation. Children loved to "play" with the computer (with, of course, an adult by him/her as a facilitator). Since it was a time that such institutes scarcely had any digital equipment, I had to rent the computers for the experiments. When the man came to pick up the computers, the kids started to cry, because "we have had so much fun playing with the computers!" (they couldn't understand why they were taken...). The results of using the computers were amazing, and it was also a great deal especially for children with ADD/ADHD. At a relatively short time children have learned to read and write quite a few new words (the tests included words [very large, at least 72p], from a story telling [simply color animated, with plenty of space, no dictionaries that were always clickable at other "educational" software programs aimed at 4-year olds!] that I created, and non-words. If a child failed to recognize the words, he/she would have been directed to a training screen, or could have gotten back to the story. Since I have written a few stories, the final test included words from all of the stories as well as non-words. If not created for research purposes, I recommend to create only one story in each program). Unfortunately, my programs, created with Authorware Professional, have become obsolete very soon after, and I couldn't have used them further. Today there are many software programs that are very easy to use to create your own educational programs, and if you work with preschoolers, it would be fun for you and for them! Good luck! Dr. Dania Shapira, Israel/Boston ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************