Anyone use Visualize World Geography? What do you think

[earthmother]

has anyone used this resource and what is your opinion on it?
thanks
earthmother

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[LisaTheresa]

I have been using www.sheppardsoftware.com for geography for my kids, but I also own Visualize World Geography and plan to supplement with it some next year.

My kids are doing really well with spending 10 minutes a day on Sheppard Software and it is painless for me. However, I think the kind of visualization that is offered in Visualize World Geography will help more with long term memory of the countries than Sheppard Software does. I know that once the pictures from Visualize World Geography are made in my mind, I am much more likely to remember.

I don't think it would take more than 5 minutes a day to use VWG, which is nice.

Lisa

ETA: Okay, I just looked at the link you gave and the program has been updated since I purchased it. I may have to get this.

[Lori D.]

Visualize World Geography would probably work well with young children and with very visual learners. We tried it in middle school and either it just was too young for that age, or it just didn't connect with my boys, but we ended up selling it after trying it for a few weeks.

We ended up going with the Sheppard's Software free on-line geography games -- we all enjoy using the geography games at that site. We also used a number of other books and resources, as we were doing a comprehensive world culture/geography study that year, and the Visualize World Geography was more simplistic than what fit with what we were trying to accomplish.

Just our experience. Warmest regards, Lori D.