Dinosaur Hunt Game Updated

Just updated and uploaded Dinosaur Hunt

Details and free download at:
www.greyolltwit.com/dinohunt_2.html

Take care,

Simon Hensby aka Grey Olltwit
www.greyolltwit.com
or
www.go-education.com

MP3 Player Updated

Hi and Happy New Year. I have just uploaded a new much improved version of my MP3 Player which now also plays Windows media compressed audio files (wma).

Details and free download at:
www.greyolltwit.com/mp3player2.html

Take care,

Simon Hensby aka Grey Olltwit
www.greyolltwit.com
or
www.go-education.com

Christmas Screen Savers Free Again

My 'Advent Calendar' and 'Spare A Thought For Santa' screen savers
have been updated and are now totally free again.

Download at:

Advent Calendar

Spare A Thought For Santa

Happy holidays to you all

Educational Software Without Bunnies Or Hedgehogs

Learning is a fantastic process that is carried out by all of us every day, whether you are 5 or 105. Then why when it comes to educational software, do the majority of programs have these silly pre school graphics? Granted they can be useful for very early learners but those looking to improve their number skills or sentence building can be any age and in my experience of teaching, are put off by this sort of software that is mostly available from the big companies. What is more they tend to go from one extreme to the other, making often too simple software pitched to 4 and 5 year olds and then producing programs that have so many menus and tool bars that the user is left completely bewildered.

Let us also not forget that not all learners are children. Many teenagers and adults, often through no fault of their own, need to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. As an example, my own son has ADHD, which many consider a disability but in fact, with the right help, it can be turned into a huge benefit. Attention Deficit Disorder sufferers often have many extraordinary skills but often find conventional studying extremely hard, as they cannot focus for too long. Many are able to multi task at an extremely fast rate, so it is just that their brains are working in a different way to others and it is certainly not because they are deficient in some way. Other special needs people are very versatile in other areas too. For example dyslexics, who can design fantastic architecture or engineering feats but find it harder to understand the written word. We don't all have fit in the same round hole.

So as educational software developers, we have a duty to understand our users and to try and help them in whatever way we can. Often by just listening, a program can be tweaked a little to open it up to new users, who before had no hope of using it. I hope this will inspire educational software authors to look at their products and bear this in mind when developing new ones.

Police 'Chase' Man in Golf Cart

Bowling Game Free Again

I have just returned my popular ten pin bowling game to freeware. You can get a copy at:

free bowling game

Happy Bowling. More free games coming soon.

New Free Game Added

I have just added a new free game to my software website. It is my version of the classic breakout game. It's called Blobby Breakout and non members of my website can download a free copy. Check out my free breakout game.

World Video News

Check out my new World video news website, runVTnews.com.

Search Engine Submission Helper

I have just added the following new program to my site. The details are as follows:

New Utility Program - Search Engine Submission Helper
Details at http://www.greyolltwit.com/seshelper.html

You can download a freeware copy by clicking the Non Members download link.

Cartoon Screen Savers Now All Freeware Again

I have today returned all my cartoon screen savers to freeware.

Visit http://www.greyolltwit.com/saverscartoon.html and click on the Non Members download link for each saver.

Screen savers include:

Percy Penguin - Virtual Penguin screen saver.

Morris Myna - You very own virtual pet Myna bird in a screen saver.

Tom & Jerry - Tom getting into trouble while chasing Jerry.

Pooh & The Honey Tree - Winnie The Pooh uses a balloon to try to get
some honey.

Mud Bath - Cartoon hippos wallowing in mud.

Sylvester & Tweety - Watch Sylvester getting into some terrible
scrapes.

Spring Clean - Give your computer the once over inside.

Goosed! - A cartoon story of a bull greeting a man.

Willy and Wally - Your very own virtual goldfish on your desktop.

Teletubbies - Time for Teletubbies including lots of nursery rhyme
midis.

Eeyore's Lost Tail - Eeyore takes a river trip and meets many of his
friends.

Pooh And Tigger - A simple Screen Saver of two very lovable
characters.

ADHD Or What ? - A certain character from Tasmania whirls around your
desktop.

Flower Power - Animated flowers growing to classical midi tracks get
their own back on the groundsman.


Enjoy!