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Ask
Jeeves for Kids
Like its big brother Ask Jeeves, Ask Jeeves
for Kids lets you frame your Web search
queries in plain English. All the results
are deemed to be child-friendly, having
been vetted by editors. AJKids has also
found a place in the classroom. There
are all sorts of suggestions and projects
that teachers can use, including a "word
of the day" and projects focusing
on travel and adventure.
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Discovery
Kids
This spin-off of the Discovery Channel
will captivate any curious child with
its supply of projects, adventures, and
articles about the world around us. Don't
miss the Automatic Adventure Personality
Profile, which lets kids personalize the
site and get a list of fun adventures
well suited to their particular interests.
This is one of those sites that makes
you wish you were a kid again.
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Disney.com
Oh, Pooh! Disney.com, part of the GO Network,
is a very interactive site, with many
different activities for kids and lots
of content for parents, most of which,
of course, is geared toward marketing
Disney's plethora of products and characters.
The games are written in Shockwave and
load fairly quickly (you can play another
game while waiting for the one you want).
For complete access to the site, you must
pay a membership fee for Disney's Club
Blast, but much of Disney.com's content
is available to nonmembers.
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SuperFamily.com
Want to set up a Web site so your extended
family can exchange photos, news, and
calendars? This is the place to do it,
where free sites are a breeze to set up
and maintain. (You get 15MB of storage
and can pay for more.) The photography
tools are most notable here, but you can
also make a family newspaper, share shopping
and wish lists, hold discussions, and
trade e-mails. The company also maintains
SuperFriends.com, for groups of friends
who aren't necessarily related.
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SurfMonkey
Kids Channel
Parents
who worry about where their kids go on
the Web should take a look at this fun
and family-friendly Web directory. Every
link is guaranteed to be great for kids,
and you can add the SurfMonkey Bar, a
compact "cybershield" that sits
at the bottom of the Microsoft Internet
Explorer window. SurfMonkey even has its
own kid-friendly browser to make sure
that the little ones never wander off
the straight and narrow.
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