Teacher’s Cupboard 2000.

(Oxford Literacy Web: Letters, Sounds and Rhymes.)

This is an updated version of the well known computer adventure, Teacher’s Cupboard. There are two different stories. The teacher wants an apple, or a crown, and you have to find it by answering puzzles and then exploring an imaginary world. The story is beautifully presented, with colourful graphics and clear reading voices. But nothing can disguise the limitations of the story itself. It doesn’t have the imaginative resonance and richness of the many picture books that children encounter in the classroom. There is a bit of the ICT curriculum here, as the children control the character around the screen using the mouse: a very simple modelling activity, but the characters and situations seem arbitrary and unimaginative.

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