Class Moodle Site | HCI Spring 08 Syllabus | Student Web Pages
BEST OF collection of Websites for kids and seniors
Kids Sites |
Description |
Contributor |
| Science world | (An interactive website with various games children can play to learn about a variety of topics related to how the human body works. ) | Prachi |
| Healthy Computing 4 Kids | This website makes us aware of “unhealthy” impacts computing technology might have on children, and provides advice on how to minimize such effects. | Dani |
| KidsCom Chat | This website has many different types of activities geared to children. This section "Chat & Buzz" allows kids to join various types of chat rooms and forums. | Leila |
| SwitchZoo | Learn about different animals, and then create your own! | Gussie |
| One Laptop Per Child | One Laptop Per Child is an organization that seeks to educate children across the world about technology, hardware, software, and the world in general through donating laptops. Check out there site, actually pretty impressive worldwide organization. | Brandon |
| Kids.gov | Kids.gov is an official site for kids. Parents, there are likely to
be no scams on this website. Features on this website include website
of the month, and education topics ranging from art all the way to math
and social studies! Information
for Parents. |
Sara |
Sites for Seniors |
Description |
Contributor |
| Website for a class in Portland where seniors teach seniors computer skills | Celia | |
| Ageless Project | A site dedicated to proving that "the personal, creative side of the web is diverse" and most importantly ageless. The site provides links to blogs for people of all ages (who are not all senior citizens, though the oldest was born in 1911, while the youngest was born in 1986). The Ageless project seeks people to submit their personal non-commercial and original websites in order to help prove their point that web creativity is not limited to a certain age group! | Aubrey |
| Brain Games Article | An article reviewing the most successful "brain games" for senior citizens to use to prolong their cognitive function and delay Alzheimer's Disease. These programs have been scientifically-backed and clinically tested. | Nicolia |
| Cool Grandma | This online community has lots of general information and articles, as well as discussion forums and chat rooms for senior-citizens. (and a great photo) | Laurel |
| Senior Friend Finder! | This website is devoted to seniors finding online friends. (say no more!) | Jordon |
| Seniorocity | Seniorocity is a website, an online community as the site states, where adults over the age of 40 can visit and engage in various activities. The site includes a photo gallery, different groups to join, polls, forums with wide ranges of topics, newsclips, advertisements, and various articles appealing to this age group. | Farah |