Computer Cool School makes learning safe, fun on PC
— -- Has your preschooler discovered your computer? Perhaps slipping sticky fingers on your keyboard to see what happens? With the Fisher-Price Computer Cool School, you can encourage young kids to play on your computer with no risk to your personal or business files.
Fisher-Price Computer Cool School is a keyboard and software package. The Computer Cool School keyboard is a brightly colored, kid-friendly QWERTY keyboard with attached writing and drawing tablet and stylus pen. Also on the keyboard are five buttons to launch five learning centers that are featured in the software. In addition, there is a globe-like button that takes kids on a field trip within the software. The keyboard can be plugged in beside your regular keyboard and both will work. It comes packaged with the Leo's Classroom software.
By plugging in the Computer Cool School keyboard via a USB port and installing the CD, you can turn your computer into an interactive classroom for kids ages 3 to 6. Kids navigate within the software, using the special keyboard and stylus, or a traditional mouse.
When setting up this software, you have an option of making it dependent on your entering a password. By selecting this password option, you can keep your own computer files safe from kids, because the program won't activate without a parent entering his or her password. And once in the program, kids can't exit until a parent once again enters that same password. With this password option, children have no way to click out of the program and into other files on the computer.
Kids play Computer Cool School by joining Leo the Leopard in an interactive classroom. Leo suggests activities, and clicking on anything in the room will trigger an animation or response. To access the five learning centers of reading and writing, math, science, music and art, kids push illuminated buttons located on the special keyboard.
In the reading and writing center, kids help to create an alphabet book that they can print. They will also practice writing the alphabet and numbers, using the tablet and stylus plus special cards to do tracing. Their writing shows up on the screen.
