Announcing Chip & Friends™
from the Computer Learning Foundation™
Now you can introduce your children at home or school to responsible and ethical use of computers and software with these new entertaining and educational Chip & Friends kits. Created by Gale Warshawsky and produced by The Atterbury Foundation, each Chip & Friends kit includes a video featuring a cast of delightful puppet characters that children will surely love, an instruction guide for parents or educators, a children's activity guide and a stuffed Chip puppet for children to enact their own creations. The charming video puppets, Chip and his friends, Silicon Sylvie, Sandy Software, and Gooseberry, and their encounters with video villain Dirty Dan, are sure to captivate young children as they learn important lessons about how to be responsible users of computers. The video puppets and activities lead children to understand how to take care of computer equipment, how to properly handle disks, the importance of saving and backing up their work on the computer, what passwords are and how to protect them, and the importance of respecting others' privacy, electronic property, copyright, and ownership of electronic information and files.
Chip & Friends School Kit includes:
(Cost: $99.95 + freight charge)
1 Chip & Friends video (54 minutes) with an introduction for educators, two 20-minute videotaped segments live with children in kindergarten through third grade and separate video segments of the Chip puppet video vignettes shown in the classroom presentation to allow educators to develop their own classroom presentations
1 Chip puppet
1 Teacher's Guide with lesson plans, activities for introducing and reinforcing various topics on responsible and ethical use of computers, and overhead transparencies and script ideas for creating classroom presentation
25 Chip & Friends Student Activities Books
Chip & Friends Home Kit includes:
(Cost: $39.95 + freight charge)
1 Chip & Friends video (42 minutes) with an introduction for educators, two 20- minute videotaped segments live with children in kindergarten through third grade.
1 Chip puppet
1 Parent's Guide on how to use the materials and suggested activities for introducing and reinforcing various topics on responsible and ethical use of computers at home
1 Chip & Friends Student Activities Book
For more information or if would like to order: Computer Learning Foundation, P.O. Box 60967, Palo Alto, CA 94306; (415) 327-3347.