Talking Fingers Review

I received the opportunity to review Talking Fingers for The OldSchool House.  Initially I was concerned that my children would be unable to use it because of their age.  However, I found out it is designed for children K-3rd grade. 

Talking Fingers is based on the idea that text is speech made visible.  When children begin to link speech sounds to letters they can use the alphabet to write the sounds.  "Their fingers are talking"

The Read, Write, Type Learning System costs $79.00 for the Home Edition on CD.  If you have multiple children that will be using this program then it may be the best way to go.
Otherwise the individual pricing is as follows.
                                 $35.00 1 user
                                 $55.00 2 users
                                 $70.00 3 users
                                 $85.00 4 users
                               $100.00 5 users
The one year subscription includes over 90 games, typing lessons, animated stories, and writing samples.   It includes, phonics, spelling, keyboarding and word processing to help the child/student make the connection.  I received the online version and had my middle child try it out.  She really liked it.  It has a storyline of two hands (Lefty and Rightway) trying to defeat a villain named Vexor.  It enables the student to learn proper hand positions and the program grows in complexity as the children learn more letters and sounds to create words. 

LanSchool Technology Review

Lanschool is a computer program that allows you to interact with your student(s) using a computer for classroom work.

*Reduces Distractions for Student: It helps eliminate many distractions that can interfere with a student completing his work by limiting web browsing on student computers and blanking screens. It also can help eliminate distractions such as games and messaging.
*Monitors Students: It helps monitor student activity within a classroom setting. Teachers have the ability to send messages to the students and allows all screens to be viewed with the current application running.
* Assess Student Understanding: Students can be polled during a lecture with true/false or multiple choice questions.
*Individual help:  Students can silently request help from the teacher by submitting a question that appears on their computer screen along with a question mark to alert the teacher there is a question or help is needed.
*Monitor Internet History :  Monitor all history
* Screen snapshot: Provides a snapshot of student's current computer screen. Parent/teacher are able to easily see if they are on task.
*Limit Printing:  Print options can be disabled on any of the computers set up with it.
*Web Limiting:  Limit website accessiblity

The goal of LanSchool is to help educators teach more effectively with innovative software solutions.

It is priced at 99.00 for the home version.  I phone or I pad apps are available for free at the I tunes store.

I think this is an excellent product for a homeschool that has students doing a good amount of work from their computer or for an older student.  Currently my children do not do schoolwork from a computer so it did not fit our needs at this time.  However, I can certainly see it coming in very handy in the future with multiple children as they begin to use the computer on a more regular basis.




*****I was offered this product at no charge for review purposes only. 

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