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Hi! Glad you stopped by - I was just starting to get lonely in here! While I was waiting for you to get here, I have been having a quick look around the Wibbly Wobbly Web, hunting for things that might be useful. I managed to find one or two... maybe you've had better
luck?
If you have Internet and American English is your language, check out a great site run by the Webster's Dictionary
people: http://www.wordcentral.com
Apart from being able to look up words, you can go into different classrooms and and find all sorts of different things to do.
If you like secret codes, you'll be happy there, or you could get some help with your latest poem by looking in the rhyming
dictionary.
If you have words you have invented to describe things that you couldn't find a suitable word for, you can send them in. Wonder if anyone has told them about Zortles yet...it's what some of us call people who don't seem to be quite with it...from zomboid mortals...well alright, one of us does. Me!
In the last issue, Bridie McGrevy was telling us all about two of her favourite Dorling Kindersley educational CD
Roms.
In this issue, I'd like to tell you about two of my favourites, one from the same people and the other from Microsoft.
The Dorling Kindersley Encyclopedia of Science 2.0 is for North American students (ISBN 0-7894-1230-6) and works on both Windows and Macintosh systems. It's an interactive CD and it's amazing how much fun you can have while you learn!
So far I have found out why all sorts of things happen and how scientists go about discovering what is really going on when those things happen. There's so much on the CD that I'll probably still be finding out new things this time next
year!
Microsoft Oceans is interactive, too, and you can learn about all sorts of creatures
you couldn't even dream up if you tried! Some of them are quite scary-looking. I wouldn't want to meet a few of the ones with huge teeth!
You can enjoy tales of the early explorers and find out what part the seas and oceans play in the life of our planet. There's plenty more, but I wouldn't want to spoil your
fun!
Do you have a favourite CD Rom for learning at home? Why not tell other
MarineZine Youngsters all about it? I'd like to know, for a
start! Oh, by the way, my name is Joanna Fielder but my friends call me Jo. You can too, if you
like!
My mum is friends with the people who run MarineZine
and,
after she had nagged me for three weeks, I said I wouldn't mind taking a turn at doing the Skool Rools page.
I won't always be able to do it, though, because I live on
a boat called the 'Mary Lee' and we don't have the Internet on board and, anyway, I'm twelve now so I'll be moving on to Teen Scene in a few months, at least as a
reader!
If you'd like to have a go at writing any of the Youngsters
pages for the next or future issues, just send an e-mail to marinezine_youngsters@linnetwoods.com
You could get together with some friends and do it as a group if you like. That could be
fun!
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