BACKWORDS For Parents and Teachers... This game is mostly for fun. But it teaches children to look at words in a playful, original way. It shows them that words aren't fixed and frozen. They can be flipped over and turned around. The result is amusing and often surprising. For Kids... Did you ever wonder what your name looks like spelled backwards? I did. So I tried this computer game. When the computer typed "FRONTWORDS?" I typed my name -- FRED. A message flashed on...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
THE FORTUNE TELLER For Parents and Teachers... This is an imagination game. The computer plays the part of a fortune teller and pretends it can see into the child's future. This program will motivate children to develop their writing and typing skills. For Kids... Imagine that it's late at night and you are asleep. A crash of thunder wakes you. You hear eerie music coming up the stairs. You sneak downstairs to see what is making the music. It's the computer. Strange messages appear on...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
NAME THAT COLOR! For Teachers and Parents... This game helps children learn colors and the color names. The computer flashes a color on the picture screen. It also displays a color name on the middle of the screen. If the color name does not match the color, the child presses the SPACE bar and a new color name appears. The child asks the computer for new color names until he finds the color name that matches the color. Then he presses the ENTER button. For Kids... Pretend that you are...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
SLEDS For Parents and Teachers... This game is similar to The Roller Coaster game. It helps children learn about trigonometric functions. The computer draws one function -- the cosecant function -- on the TV screen. Children can experiment with the game and make all sorts of different shapes. For Kids... In the last chapter we created a roller coaster. In this chapter we look at just how you go about using a derived function to create new pictures. By making only a couple of...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
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Fred D'Ignazio on Tom York's Morning Show — computer basics using an Amiga 1000 computer. Circa 1986. Posted with permission of Fred D'Ignazio.
Topics: Amiga 1000, Fred D'Ignazio, Tom York's Morning Show, Tom York
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SCRAMBLED NOTES For Parents and Teachers... This game will help children learn musical notes of the C-major scale in the octave from middle C to high C. Since the notes are randomly selected by the computer, the game helps children learn to identify the different notes just by hearing them. For Kids... Take a look at the For Kids section in the last chapter. A hint: This game is tougher than the last game. In this game the notes don't get higher one by one. In this game, the notes are all...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
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May 25, 2015
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Television Coverage Of Multi-Media Classrooms by Fred D'Ignazio Compiled Jan 5 1988 Clips of coverage of Multi-Media Classrooms in the late 1980s. Tape labeled "MMC Sampler Version 2.0 — 19 minutes, sent to SPGBD on 1/5/88)
Topics: Tom York's Morning Show, FM synthesizers, multi-media, Spinnaker Newsroom software, technology in...
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May 22, 2015
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Mud Pie School - Fred D'Ignazio
Topics: Fred D'Ignazio, multimedia design, AOL, America Online, cu-seeme
BOOK REPORT For Parents and Teachers... This game will help children with their writing assignments, especially book reports. The program asks the child for pertinent information -- the date, the child's name, the author, and the title of the book. Then the computer asks the child "WHAT HAPPENED FIRST?" When the child enters this information, the computer asks "WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?" The child responds to the computer's questions and enters the report, sentence by...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
THE NUMBER RACE For Parents and Teachers... This program helps children learn numerals and number sequence. It also helps them learn the location of the numerals on the computer keyboard. For Kids... How fast can you find a number? Can you beat the computer? In this game, the computer flashes a number on the picture screen. The number is between and 9. As soon as the number appears, the computer begins counting. If you can punch the number button on the keyboard before the computer is...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
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May 29, 2015
05/15
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A silly QuickTime video where Fred D'Ignazio raps. Date unknown. 1989? 1992?
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May 25, 2015
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A long reel of clips of Fred D'Ignazio on Tom York's Morning Show in the late 1980s, demonstrating new technologies like pagers, the Amiga 1000 computer, and VCR tapes.
Topics: Commodore Amiga computer, green screen compositing, chroma key compositing, FM synthesizers, toy...
GOOSE EGGS For Parents and Teachers... This game helps younger children learn how to count. It also teaches them where to find the number keys on the computer keyboard. For Kids... Pretend you live on a farm. You go out to the goose coop. You find 1 goose egg in the goose nest. The mama goose gets on the nest and lays a new egg. That's 2 goose eggs. Then the mama goose gets on the nest and lays another egg. That's 3 goose eggs. The mama goose keeps laying new eggs. You keep counting....
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
Dozens of articles written by Fred D'Ignazio that were published in Compute! Magazine, Compute!'s Gazette (for Commodore 64), and Compute!'s PC & PCjr Magazine. These articles were published in 1984 and 1985. Fred D'Ignazio is an American author, educator, and television commentator. D'Ignazio is considered to be one of the world's leading pioneers in multimedia-based education. In the 1980s and 1990s he was an associate editor and columnist for COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette, and a...
Topics: computer magazines, Compte! magazine, computers and education, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, On the...
GREATER THAN WHAT? For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn the size relationships between numbers. It shows them two numbers, and then asks them if the first number is greater than the second, less than the second, greater than or equal to the second, or less than or equal to the second. The game helps children learn the number comparison symbols: > (greater than), < (less than), >= (greater than or equal to), and = 14 This means that X is *greater than or equal to*...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
THE ABC SONG For Parents and Teachers... This game helps younger children learn the alphabet. It displays the letters of the alphabet while it plays the "Alphabet Song." If your child isn't quick-tongued now, he or she will be after singing along with this program. The program plays the ABC Song very slowly the first time. As it plays, it flashes the appropriate letter of the alphabet on the TV screen. Your child will sing along and be proud that he or she can sing faster than the...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
Fred D'Ignazio reads from his book "Katie And The Computer" on WINC radio, January 1980.
Topics: Fred D'Ignazio, Children's Computer Books, Book Reading, WINC radio, computer books, author reading
HOW FAST ARE YOU? For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children develop hand-eye coordination and concentration. The computer draws a line from left to right across the screen. As soon as the child sees the line appear on the lefthand side of the screen, he or she presses the SPACE bar. When the SPACE bar or any other key is pressed, the line stops. The faster the child reacts, the better the score. For Kids... How fast are you? To find out, step right up and have a duel with the...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
SECRET AGENT For Parents and Teachers... This is an imagination game. It takes words and sentences and turns them into secret codes for children to pass around and try to figure out. This game might act as an incentive to encourage your children to practice writing and typing on the computer. For Kids... Pretend you are agent Triple-Nine. You have a secret message that you have to deliver to the president of a small country nestled in the Andes Mountains in South America. The message...
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Source: The Color Computer Playground
THE ARITHMETIC GAME For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. For Kids... When I was a child, I used to work on an arithmetic problem and then get frustrated because I didn't know if my answer was right or wrong. I wanted to know the answer right away. But I had to wait until the teacher graded my homework paper or my test. Sometimes that took days or even weeks. By the time I got my paper back, the problem was no...
Topics: coco, playground, basic, game, vintage_basic_games, color computer
Source: The Color Computer Playground
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May 25, 2015
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From a videotape from Fred D'Ignazio — Multi-Media Classroom Video Scrapbook Fall 1986 Various segments of computers in classrooms, and multimedia projects circa 1986.
Topics: multimedia in the classrooms, computers in the classroom, 1980s, Apple II, Apple 2
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Aug 18, 2016
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Intro To Multimedia - Fred D'Ignazio - November 1992 Posted with Fred's permission. Digitized from the 3/4" master tape.
Topics: Fred D'Ignazio, multimedia, laserdisc, video digitizer, ComputerEyes, CD-ROM, Macintosh LC
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Aug 22, 2016
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Two segments by Fred D'Ignazio: Atari ST vs Amiga, Future of Logo Circa 1986
Topics: Fred D'Ignazio, Atari ST, Atari 520ST, Commodore Amiga 1000, Logo programming language, educational...
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May 25, 2015
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Janet Mort — Canadian Multi Media Schools From a videotape by Fred D'Ignazio No date.
Topic: meltimedia in schools
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May 25, 2015
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A collection of clips of Fred D'Ignazio from the 1980's on Good Morning America and Tom York's Morning Show. Fred demonstrates the Mac 128K and PageMaker, a television studio, green screen chroma key compositing, cable TV converters and VCRs, software on various home computers.
Topics: Good Morning America, Tom York, Tom York's Morning Show, Fred D'Ignazio, Macintosh 128K, PageMaker
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Aug 20, 2016
08/16
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Clips of Fred D'Ignazio on Tom York's Morning Show. Circa 1986 Demonstrating use of Macintosh, Amiga 1000, stereo television, film cameras
Topics: Fred Dignazio, Tom York's Morning Show, Tom York, Macintosh computer, Amiga 1000, stereo...
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May 21, 2015
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Promotional video for "The One Minute Guru with Fred D'Ignazio" video series. Circa 1995
Topics: Adobe Premiere 4.0, AutoDesk Animator, PCMCIA cards, multimedia, interactive video training, promo...
UNO! DOS! TRES! For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn how to count from zero to 10 in Spanish. For Kids... When you RUN this program, the screen turns blank. At the bottom, the computer asks "NUMBER (0-10)?" You can type any number from to 10. Let's say you type a 5. The computer puts a 5 on the screen and underneath it the word for 5 in Spanish: 5 CINCO When the computer prints the number, it plays a special musical tone. The computer...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
THE PIED PIPER For Parents... This is a memory and concentration game. The computer creates a chain of colors and musical tones. The colors and tones are represented by the keys 1 to 4 on the computer keyboard. First the colors are displayed and the tones play, and then the child presses the keys. The keys have to be in the same sequence as the colors and tones. If the child can remember the exact sequence of colors and tones, the chain grows one link at a time. You can adjust how...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
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Aug 22, 2016
08/16
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Fred D'Ignazio segment on Learning Matters episode 105. At what age should children be introduced to computers?
Topics: Learning Matters, Fred D'Ignazio, children and computers
UP, UP AND AWAY! For Parents and Teachers... Like the game in the last chapter, this game helps children learn directions -- up, down, left, and right -- and direction names. This game is an expanded version of the up-down game from the last chapter. It shows what happens when you add animation and sound effects to the game. For Kids... This game is a lot like the game in the last chapter. Only this time the arrows move and play funny music. To play this game, just search for the arrows on...
Topics: coco, playground, basic, game, color computer, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
THE ROLLER COASTER For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn about the sine function in trigonometry. It draws colorful sine curves on the TV screen. With modifications, the program can draw curves of the other trigonometric functions. For Kids... How would you like to become a video artist? You can make interesting, beautiful pictures by using a few simple recipes. The recipes you use are mathematical formulas. If you didn't use the formulas, you would have to tell the...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
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May 25, 2015
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Teaching and Learning with Technology — One Minute Guru "Hour Three" Doing research, authoring, and publishing using point and click media Published 1993 Featuring Fred D'Ignazio as "One Minute Guru"
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Aug 23, 2016
08/16
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Clips of Fred D'ignazio "High Tech Specialist" on Tom York's Morning Show. Circa 1986.
Topics: WBRC, Tom York, Tom York's Morning Show, synthesizer keyboards, cellular phones, car phones, player...
AL'S TOUR OF THE STATES For Parents and Teachers... This game teaches children the names of all the states. A letter appears on the screen, and the children have to guess which state begins with that letter. If they can't think of any states or they can't spell the state name, the computer will let them peek at the state names beginning with each letter. For Kids... Here's Alphabet Al sowing "alphabet" seeds all over the country. When Al visits a state he finds out the first...
Topics: coco, playground, game, basic, vintage_basic_games, color computer
Source: The Color Computer Playground
MUSICAL WORDS For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn important words and numbers, such as their name, phone number, address, etc. The child types in a word (or number) and the computer sets it to music and plays it like a song. The computer accepts only the correct letters or numbers. All other keys on the computer keyboard are "asleep." For Kids... Pretend that you have a magic horn. When you blow it, out pops a pretty sound. But something else comes out,...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
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Aug 23, 2016
08/16
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Clip from Learning Matters #102. Fred D'Ignazio on 'Scavenged Multimedia'. Circa 1991.
Topics: Fred D'Ignazio, Learning Matters, multimedia, computers in classrooms
SCRAMBLED BEES For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children practice spelling. You or your children enter ten words into the computer. The computer arranges the words in a random order and then quizzes the children on each word. The children can take the computer quiz over and over until they have mastered all the words. For Kids... In this chapter we create a "scrambled" spelling bee. The computer juggles the words around. Then it gives you the spelling bee with the...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
DO-RE-MI For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn the names of the notes of the C-major scale in the octave from middle C to high C. It also helps them learn the pitch of each note. For Kids... Pretend yon are sitting outside, on the grass, on a warm summer evening. You look up at the stars and the moon, and you hear music. Actually, what you hear is a single note floating somewhere, invisible, high in the air. You have your flashlight with you. You turn on the light and...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
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Aug 22, 2016
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Two segments of Fred D'Ignazio on the Tom York Morning Show on WBRC. January 14 and January 21 1986. Featuring Commodore Amiga 1000 computer.
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Topics: Fred D'Ignazio, Tom York, Tom York Morning Show, Amiga 1000, WRBC, Lotus 123
FAT CAT For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn phonetic symbols and phonetic sounds. The computer displays the phonetic symbols on the TV screen. Then it flashes a word on the screen. The child says the word aloud and tries to guess which phonetic sound is hidden inside the word. An arrow points to the first phonetic symbol. To move the arrow to a new symbol, the child presses the SPACE bar. To select a symbol the child presses the ENTER button. For Kids... Did you...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
NEWS BULLETIN! For Parents and Teachers... This is an imagination game. Children pretend the computer is a giant marquee in a big city. They get to think up any message they want to put on that marquee. This game will encourage children to compose unusual sentences and messages. It will help them develop their writing and typing skills. For Kids... How would you like to see your name on TV? Or in the movies? How would it feel to go to a theater and see your name up there in lights along...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
FIND THE CAPITAL LETTER! For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn the capital letters in the alphabet. It also teaches them the location of the letter keys on the computer keyboard. For Kids... It's a race! The race is between you and the computer. The computer flashes a letter on the TV screen. You have only a few seconds to find that letter on the keyboard and punch it in. If you find the letter in time, the computer smiles, whistles, and says, "RIGHT!" If...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
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The New Tech Times segments with Fred D'ignazio Segments. On software for helping with homework, creating your own TV programming with a video camera, videotapes for children
Topics: Fred D'ignazio, The New Tech Times, word processing, homework helpers, videotapes for children,...
Hundreds of articles written by and about Fred D'Ignazio, primarily in the 1980s-1990s. Fred D'Ignazio is an American author, educator, and television commentator. D'Ignazio is considered to be one of the world's leading pioneers in multimedia-based education. In the 1980s and 1990s he was an associate editor and columnist for COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette, and a technology commentator on ABC's Good Morning America. These clips were provided to me by Fred to scan and share. More clips from...
Topics: Fred D'Ignazio, computer magazines, children and computers, computer education, multumedia
UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn directions: up, down, left, and right. It also helps them recognize the direction words. For Kids... Look for the arrow keys on the keyboard. Do you see them? Now, you're ready. The computer asks you: "WHICH DIRECTION?" On the screen you see an arrow and a word. What arrow do you see? It's the up arrow. The arrow is pointing to the word "UP." Say the word out loud. Shout it out! Can you...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
UN! DEUX! TROIS! For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children learn how to count from zero to 10 in French. For Kids... When you RUN this program, the screen turns blank. At the bottom, the computer asks "NUMBER (0-10)?" You can type any number from to 10. Let's say you type a 5. The computer puts a 5 on the screen and underneath it the word for 5 in French: 5 CINQ When the computer prints the number, it plays a special musical tone. The computer asks...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
SPELLING BEE For Parents and Teachers... This game helps children practice spelling. You or your children enter the words into the computer, and then the computer quizzes the children on each word. The children can take the computer quiz over and over until they have mastered all the words. For Kids... The computer first asks you for 10 words you would like to know how to spell. Maybe they are the 10 words that will be appearing on your spelling test tomorrow morning. You type in the 10...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
THE SKYWRITER For Parents and Teachers... This is an imagination game. The computer asks children for any sequence of letters or numbers. Then it displays the letters or numbers, over and over, all across the TV screen. This is a good game for teaching children how to spell their own names or the names of their pets and other members of their family. For Kids... Have you ever seen a skywriter? A skywriter is an airplane that flies high up in the sky and leaves a white smokey trail. ...
Topics: coco, playground, color computer, basic, game, vintage_basic_games
Source: The Color Computer Playground
