hi,
"it wasnt hard to place the word in the powerpt to show the bb or toddle but u cant just left him alone to watch it. Still need to read the words out for him.
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==> Actually, you can create powerpoints with voice. It will read out the word or say the name of the picture.
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Ur idea is great but bear in mind u may need to place the bb/toddler infront of the monitor and may not be too good for their eye sight and are u able to read out the word fast enough before it switch to the next one?
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==> You can prevent "the eye spoiling" by using LCD monitor. And using voice on the powerpoints, it will synchronise with the flipping.
You can get samples of how this is done here
http://www.palmchristy.net/baby/download.htm. There are templates that teach you how to incoporate the pictures, words and sound. More can be found here
http://www.childbrain.org.
The glenn doman 10 CDs bits set(which you buy from GDbaby) also flip electronic bits with words.
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The card is more prefered as ur already have the word at the back of the card so u can change the card in really fast without missing any of them.
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===> This is not true. Sometimes, when you flip, you can also miss out cards. When your kid gets older, he becomes more active, he may want to flip the cards together with you. It makes flipping of paper cards tough.
For me, I do both. I started with pure paper cards when he was 6 months. However, I faced "competition" from my son to flip the cards when he turned very active.He also gets very distracted. Now I rotate between both. I find that he concentrates better with the powerpoint slides. And I find that maths equations easier to do with the powerpoint. It is really tedious preparing new equations to show me every day. Now, I used the pre prepared equation slides to show him( i am using the one found in christy slides). I also find the powerpoint slides are good for showing things of the following
1. animals
2. birds
3. musical instruments
You can incoporate the sound of the animals, birds and musical instruments in the powerpoints. So they will associate the sounds with the object.
I think you can read more about paper vs computer argument in
www.childbrain.org forum. It has been discussed before.