OK, now really, this was a bad idea...yes it is good for me to have ideas to give the kids, but really, I am sitting at work playing Lego Star Wars...and I can't stop...
I am not sure that they can really learn anything from the Star Wars page, but man is it fun...
I also looked at the Nick Jr page and there are games that will be educational, though a lot of the games there are on the same level as the A.W.E. computers, but also fun to play.
I also looked at Poptropica, I was not really sure what I was doing there, but it was fun to make my little person run around. My coworker was a bit hesitant to play it for long as it seems you can sometimes interact with other players, however I only encountered default characters who are there to give direction. I may go back on some free time and explore more. There did seem to be educational material there as well, I am not sure if it levels the game by the age you pick, that my require a little more investigation.
I went briefly to Whyville, but that really was populated with real kids and I was not comfortable with that, so I left pretty quickly. I don't think I would recommend that to the kids, just because there is the possibility that there are older people on there looking to try to befriend younger kids. Though I think in this day and age we really have to be pushing kids to think about who they are talking to and Internet safety.
I will continue to play with the sites and explore, it's like the thing on NBC "The more you know..."
