Well it is summer time, and I thought I'd lead off my return to blogging with a post for technology and kids. My kids have been busy doing all sorts of good outdoor fun this summer: swimming, golfing, water parks. After a day out and about they like to come home and crash with some indoor fun.
I found this site for my children that they absolutely love and I wanted to share it with you all. The site is Kerpoof and it brings together two of my favourite things: technology and creativity. Kerpoof allows children to create a number of things:
- pictures where they start with a background and drag & drop characters and props to create a scene. The tool is intuitive enough to adjust items you drag into the scene in terms of size to give a sense of perspective & depth
- drawings where kids can freehand draw
- movies where they can use an interesting timeline tool to have objects, characters, and speech appear & move as time passes. It is a great introduction for kids on how animation is done. It uses a similar paradigm to other movie creation tools and serves as a good introduction for kids
- cards and stories that again allow them to leverage a variety of creative tools
What I found most interesting about Kerpoof, aside from the tools, is the social network aspect. Children, once setup with an account (that is free), earn virtual coins that they can then use to buy other things, like different style pens for example. The art work is made available for other users to see and other kids can rank your work, which also earns you points.
I've watched my oldest and youngest, 10 and 6, both spend time on this site and thoroughly enjoy it. They email me pieces of their work through the day and it is amazing to see the level of sophistication that can be achieved after "playing" with Kerpoof for a while.
If you are looking for a good destiniation to send your kids to on the web, be sure to check out Kerpoof.
Kerpoof is a great web site! My friends & I are actully kid advisory
board members and we have gave them some ideas for kerpoof I think that everyone there is just so wonderful! I go on kerpoof every day! I have been working with them for more then a year! Lots of fun!
Posted by: alexa | August 17, 2008 at 07:47 PM
Superb very nice my friend :)
Posted by: Art | March 22, 2009 at 04:36 PM
this is such a cool site. I have gone to it several times.
Posted by: wireless cell phone business | March 30, 2009 at 01:02 AM
Well, very nice post.Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Dsi Skin | September 15, 2009 at 04:10 AM