SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (10/19/87)
While an 80 column card (any Videx clone should do) might prove
handy, I suspect limited funds would be better spent on software
than hardware for use by K-6 students. If those donated Apple II's
don't have "language cards" (16K expansion in slot 0 <zero>) bringing
them up to 64K, that expansion should be added.
My children were in 1st and 2nd grade when I brought an Apple 2
home (they're now in 6th and 7th). Virtually all of the software
they've used will run fine on a 64K Apple II+ (I don't expect 6th
graders have much call for AppleWorks, really).
I recommend:
Terrapin Logo
Mix and Match (Children's Television Workshop)
Bank Street Writer
Gertrude's Secrets, Rocky's Boots (and just about anything else
from the Learning Company)
Master Type
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego
a visit to a local Apple computer club which should have an assortment
of public domain software, much of it pretty good for K-6. If Apple
is still distributing the "Lemonade Stand" with the ProDOS utilities
disk, that's a pretty good educational game for K-6 (perhaps your local
user group has the older version that runs under DOS 3.3).
Go Tiger :-)
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