Early learning, Internet site and research

The 'Not for profit' Kindersite research project is now online at
http://www.kindersite.org and we invite you all to come see
and understand what we are trying to achieve.

PLEASE NOTE. This test version of the site is for educational professionals
and bone-fide parents of young children ONLY. The childrens site is being
built seperately.

There are 2 missions for the project:

1. To allow early learners, irrespective of native language, access to the
best graded content available on the Internet in a safe and secure
environment and allow them to choose and use the content freely
2. For qualified academic educational researchers to study the childrens
usage of the content and follow up their usage to best understand outcomes
of how and if technology should be integrated in to the educational process

We ask list members to help this stage of the project by:

1. Joining our advisory board (see http://www.kindersite.org/Advisory.htm
2. Helping 'tiny testers' to use the site and reporting back to us on the
outcome (positive or negative) - teachers and parents
http://www.kindersite.org/schools.htm
3. Suggesting research projects based on the site
4. Any other form of help and support - we still desperately need additional
funding (corporate or private) to move the project on

Lastly - we are strictly controlling use of the site to ONLY professionals
in the educational community and parents of young children and you will be
asked to register to gain entry to the working parts of the site. PLEASE DO
NOT register any children at this stage but only their caregivers.

Finally please feel free to contact me at the above if you have any
questions and I hope you enjoy using the site.