ABC Kid Genius 2.17

ABC Kid Genius 2.17 is an educational Software designed to teach the Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, Counting, Reading and Spelling using sound, pictures and video Clips. You can use it at home, pre-school, kindergarten, school or business.

Using the recognition method babies and toddlers learn by watching auto rotating lessons. kids as young as 18mths can learn to use the keyboard. Children progress and learn to type the alphabet. Story reading shows the child how words are used in sentences. Flash words, shows the word and a picture that relates to it. Spelling shows a picture of the word and puts blanks under it.

There is also a help button which pops the word under the dashes allowing to copy the word letter by letter or Auto spell which will spell the word automatically. If the word is spelled correctly a video is played as reward. Words can be added or deleted to the spelling.

With 30 free words and 20 free story pages available to download. You can also create your own Spelling words or names to use with Kid Genius Spelling and Flash Words, using your own pictures, voice and video clips. Software can be set to US or UK English.

Major Features:

1. Members can download up to 1320 Words for ABC Kid Genius Spelling and Flash Words.
2. Each word has Sound, Picture and Video Clip.
3. Members can install Words by downloading Parts of a each Level or Complete Levels of Words and Mixes.
4. Members can download 2 Stories for Reading. Each Story file installs all 20 Pages.
5. Members can Create their own words to use with ABC Kid Genius Spelling and Flash Words.
6. Members can download a flag of their own country for the spelling word FLAG
7. 1 months Membership includes, 1Month Password access to the downloadable features listed above and a Software Registration Code to unlock Lower Case and Create Words features in the software.
8. The software will never expire. Words and features downloaded and installed will never expire.
9. Operating
   • ABC Kid Genius uses the MOUSE or KEYBOARD in most areas. To Move from menu to enu press or click the highlighted LETTERS or  FEATURE LETTERS in yellow boxes. Press or click Q to quit on any menu or Esc key when required . 
   • To quit  ABC Kid Genius press or click Q from the main screen.
10. Levels. Levels, allows you to spell by ability. 3 is the easiest, up to 10 the hardest. 
    • To try the levels feature in spelling, you require more words. Download the 30 free words and install.
    • You can choose a level to spell. From Level ALL to Level 10.
    • Level ALL displays all available words.
    • Level 3 displays words which are 2 to 3 letters long.
    • Level 4 displays words which are 4 letters long. the same applies for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 
    • Level 10 displays words which are 10 to 12 letters long.  
11. Video - Choose to view video after spelling a word or not.
12. Upper Case - Choose Upper case or Lower Case. (Lower Case is only available to registered members.) 
13. ON - This On-Off button (next to upper case button in the spelling section) will switch the 
     little friend encouragement comment off or on, the little friend comment is played when the spelling of a word is correct and a video clip starts. 
14. Auto - Automatically spells each word by itself.
15. Hint- When spelling gives a hint of the next letter in the word.. 
16. Sorting - in the spelling section, the 'CHOOSE word ' button will show you all the words that currently exist on your computer you can double click on a word to start spelling from that word. You will also see options  to sort the words in the order of your choice, alphabetically, by length or mixed. When you use the Sorting, the list is changed to the order you choose. The order that you choose, is the order in which the words will be displayed in both Spelling and Flash Words sections of the ABC Kid Genius Software. 
17. Create words feature
    • Create your own Spelling words to use with ABC Kid Genius Spelling and Flash Words.
    • Create words using your own pictures, your voice and your video clips.
    • Non ABC Kid Genius Members can create only 6 words for free.
18. Pictures
    • Digital Pictures - your pictures saved to be 320x240 or 480x360 pixels in size and in a JPG, GIF or BMP image formats. (eg. happy.jpg or flower.gif or girl.bmp)
19. Sound Recording of Word.
    • A microphone (mic) input on your computer.
    • A microphone so you can Record yourself saying the word.
    • Recording must be saved in WAV sound file format. (eg. happy.wav or flower.wav)
    • Windows has a Sound Recorder. It is normally located in start menu / programs / accessories.
20. VIDEO for WORD
    • The video should be saved in a 320x240 ir 480x360 size in AVI or MPG video format which is suitable for your Windows Media Player. (eg. happy.avi or flower.mpg)
    • To save space on your computer we recommend you use no more than 15 seconds of video clip for each word.
    • When a word is created your original files are NOT moved or deleted from their original source.
    • New files are created in the ABC Kid Genius directory for each word you create.
      Always Make sure you have enough free hard disk space before creating words.
      Words can be deleted in the spelling area of the ABC Kid Genius software.
    • There are 5 stages to create a word.
    • • Choose Database
      • Add picture
      • Add sound of word
      • Add video for word.
      • Type in word.
      • Follow instruction on the screen for each of the 5 stages and add files as required for the word.
    • ABC Kid Genius supplies only 1 template to practice creating your own words.
    • In stage 5 you will be required to enter the spelling of the word.
    • Each word you enter can be 2 to 12 letters long with no spaces in the middle.
    • Type in the word required in the box and click on Create button or Retype button if you have made a mistake.
    • 2 boxes will pop up to confirm creation YES and NO click on yes to create. The word is created and the screen changes to a menu. Go to Spelling to test the word.
    • You can create 6 words for free.
    • To Create more words please purchase Membership. When Creating words always use your own pictures, your own voice and your own videos. Words created should be for your own personal use and should not be distributed. It is an offence to use any media without the authority of the copyright holders
21. Free words and free story 
    • After ABC Kid Genius is installed and working, you can download more words and more story pages for free. Click on 30 free Words or 20 free Story Pages , download words or pages to a temporary directory. Click on the downloaded exe file to install. New words are automatically added to ABC Kid Genius Spelling and Flash Words areas. New story pages must be downloaded and installed in page order.  the page is automatically added to the story reading area. 
    • To set ABC Kid Genius to US or UK English. Go to Help page and click on required button. 
    • Each free story page you download and install requires up to 1mb of space on your hard disk
    • Each free word you download and install requires from 1mb up to 5mb of space on your hard disk 

Requirements:

• PC Pentium 166  with 128mb memory, sound card, screen
• Screen resolution set at 800x600 or 1024x768 or 1280x1024
• Windows 98, 2000,2003, Me,NT,XP, Vista, Microsoft VB6 runtime files, Windows Media Player
• 47mb free hard disk space

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