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LaToya Wilkerson

Tux Paint - 0 views

www.tuxpaint.org

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shared by LaToya Wilkerson on 21 Feb 09 - Cached
  • LaToya Wilkerson on 21 Feb 09
     
    Site for creating artwork and images ideally for children ages 3 to 12. Anyone can access and download the application for free from the website (tuxpaint.org). The application has special features to engage children, including sound effects when tools are selected and used, and a cartoon displayed in the corner to give help and hints. The drawing tools that are available for children to use are paint brush, rubber stamp, line tool, shape tool, text tool, special effects (magic) tools, eraser, and undo. Also, teachers and children can easily open, save, and print creations.This program could be used in an early childhood setting to help children work on fine motor skills by using the mouse on the computer. It can also foster creativity because the children are allowed to create whatever they want, however they want, and there is no limit on the amount of pictures that can be created. I would use this program in centers in the early childhood setting so that children could get equal opportunity and assistance, if needed.
Megan Stafford

Blogger or BlogSpot - 2 views

www.blogger.com/start

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shared by Megan Stafford on 17 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Ashley A on 17 Feb 09
     
    Site for sharing ideas, photos, stories. Anyone can access the blogsite, like any other website. Comments can be made on the blogs by the viewers. This tool allows the creator to personalize the page with themes and gadgets. This site could be used by teachers within the classroom for older students to do writing projects. Blogger could also be used as a parent/teacher collaboration tool in early childhood settings.
  • Megan Stafford on 26 Oct 09
     
    Fun and easy to use and customize. Good tool for education/classroom blogging.
  • Gayle Smotherman on 27 Oct 09
     
    This site was really easy to set up, but I've had a hard time using it to search for and follow other applicable blogs. Any suggestions?
Diane Bales

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship - 0 views

jcmc.indiana.edu/...boyd.ellison.html

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shared by Diane Bales on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks
  • While SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display an articulated list of Friends1 who are also users of the system.
  • Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.
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  • SNSs vary greatly in their features and user base
  • the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997
  • Most took the form of profile-centric sites
  • Unlike previous SNSs, Facebook was designed to support distinct college networks only.
  • a shift in the organization of online communities
  • primarily organized around people, not interests
  • "Friends" on SNSs are not the same as "friends" in the everyday sense; instead, Friends provide context by offering users an imagined audience to guide behavioral norms.
  • there are passive members, inviters, and linkers "who fully participate in the social evolution of the network"
  • most SNSs primarily support pre-existing social relations.
  • she argues that SNSs are "networked publics" that support sociability, just as unmediated public spaces do.
  • Scholars are documenting the implications of SNS use with respect to schools, universities, and libraries.
Tiffany Kloes

Early Childhood Teacher - 1 views

blogs.scholastic.com/early_childhood_teacher

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shared by Tiffany Kloes on 17 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Tiffany Kloes on 02 Mar 09
     
    This blog is written by an early childhood teacher out of Florida. She uses this to update her parents and communicate with them about what is going on in the classroom. She posts entries here and there and also uploads pictures to share, which offers a balanced view of the classroom. She has it organized by recent posts, where parents can click on the title and also by categories. Additionally she has a bar on the side of her page which offers great websites and resources that parents can access.
  • Jocelynn Smrekar on 16 Oct 09
     
    Scholastic website is well-organized and has good resources available. One can sort online learning activities by age level, including Pre K-K activities. The blog appears to be the same as Christina's Classroom (Christian Germano).
anonymous

ePals - 8 views

ePals is a great educational tool that allows teacher to connect and collaborate with other classrooms in more than 200 countries and territories. ePals is also user friendly in that is allows for...

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started by anonymous on 24 Feb 09 no follow-up yet
Jocelynn Smrekar

Tux Paint for Artwork and Image Creation - 17 views

This program is for creating artwork and images for children ages 3 to 12. Anyone can access and download the application for free from the website (tuxpaint.org). The application has special featu...

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started by LaToya Wilkerson on 21 Feb 09 1 follow-up, last by Jocelynn Smrekar on 16 Oct 09
Miranda Hakimi

TeacherTube - 3 views

This technology enables teacher to search and upload videos for various topics. The best use for this technology in the early childhood setting is for sharing information through videos. This helps...

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started by Miranda Hakimi on 01 Mar 09 no follow-up yet
heidigilmanbennett

2011 PBS Survey of Teachers - 2 views

www.pbs.org/...2010-grunwald-report

shared by heidigilmanbennett on 17 May 11 - No Cached
  • heidigilmanbennett on 17 May 11
     
    Includes "Pre-K" teachers for 2nd year. Interesting stats on K-12 vs. Pre-K access to technology and usage of digital media.
Bonnie Blagojevic

Prezi - The zooming presentation editor - 4 views

prezi.com

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shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Madelyn Hosch on 26 Oct 09
     
    I found this website to be very confusing to use. It doesn't seem like it would be very appropriate for young children. There is a chance that a teacher could use it in a early childhood classroom, but overall, most children that young would have a hard time listening to a presentation, even if it was a cool one. Also, Prezi costs money to use so that is definitely a draw back. However, if you were a college professor or even high school teacher, Prezi may be worth the money.
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 29 Oct 09
     
    Madelyn, you are right- this is not for use by young children. It is a new type of presentation tool which shifts from the typical slideshow type presentation to one that organizes all of the information components on a single document, and allows the presenter to zoom in on sections of the content, and particulars, to help share ideas. There is a free download version available, which is the one I have started to explore. For example, I have documented the development of our use of Diigo in early childhood settings, and created an image map. That is not visually interesting/accessible when shared as a whole, but might be transferable into a Prezi document which would be. We will see...
Joseph Alvarado

Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick - 4 views

www.wallwisher.com

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shared by Joseph Alvarado on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Joseph Alvarado on 30 Apr 09
     
    different approach to viewing and making posts.....
  • Jocelynn Smrekar on 25 Oct 09
     
    Not that useful for parents and young children. You can create post-its but it seems like there are more effective ways to get your message to someone.
  • Kelsey Bone on 30 Oct 09
     
    I really like this website. I think think that it could be useful in classroom or with families. In the classroom it could be used to easily access information found online throughout the day or as a means of communication with parents to get their feedback on things that are happening in class. At home you could send a link to you "wall" to different family members and post different photos or even artwork that children have completed. The content that is posted on your "wall" is edited and maintained by the creator, which allows for creativity and monitoring. Overall this was easy to use and could really be a fun way for people to interact!
Kimberly Wood

ROXIK | PICTAPS - 5 views

roxik.com/pictaps

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shared by Kimberly Wood on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Diane Bales on 05 Oct 09
     
    tool to animate graphics
  • Kimberly Wood on 25 Oct 09
     
    This site is used to create a "dancing" piece of art. Children can use their creativity to draw and color. Once finished, their artwork is set to music, and it dances in sync. Others dancing artwork can also be accessed and viewed.
Diane Bales

The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - fodey.com - 1 views

www.fodey.com/...snippet.asp

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shared by Diane Bales on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Jamie Borenstein on 26 Oct 09
     
    This is a very simple website, probably better for older kids because site does not provide detailed instructions. Also relies a lot on author/kids own creativity and story formation. Good tool for creating different types of creative writing assignments. Have to be careful because also includes links to make you own cigarette boxes, which led me to believe the site is not highly monitored and kids may be able to access other inappropriate websites.
Joseph Alvarado

Accessing Curriculum ThroughTechnology Topics (ACTTT) - 5 views

www.wiu.edu/...products

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shared by Joseph Alvarado on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Joseph Alvarado on 15 Oct 09
     
    K-2 students using technology. Podcasts, video slides and more...all done by the students.
Allison Jennings

ImageChef - Word Mosaic - 7 views

I like that there are instructions on the site to help you. It is also nice that after you are done designing you can easily email or post to another website. I agree that it would be a great too...

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started by Wendi Loggins on 29 Oct 09 1 follow-up, last by Allison Jennings on 29 Oct 09
Jamie McFarland

Homestead - 1 views

Homestead is a website creation tool that is available for anyone to create their own website. Homestead is a great tool for teachers to make classroom websites or to use with older children to cr...

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started by Jamie McFarland on 04 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Kristen Hall

Webstarts - 0 views

webstarts.com

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shared by Kristen Hall on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Kristen Hall on 04 Nov 09
     
    Webstarts allows users to create a webpage for sharing photos, videos, and information. A classroom teacher could create a class webpage that parents can access, increasing the parents' classroom involvement. My favorite part of this website is that there are preloaded templates to make designing a page simpler. One option even looks like a page from a scrapbook, allowing the teacher to make a "scrapbook" of her class.
Kristen Hall

Webs - 0 views

members.webs.com/...sitemanager

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shared by Kristen Hall on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Kristen Hall on 04 Nov 09
     
    Webs is a website creation tool that allows users to blog, share videos and photos, and engage in discussions in forums. The teacher could create a class website with pictures and videos of the children engaging in various activities. Parents could access this website to see what their children have been doing in class each day.
Kelsey Bone

WallWisher - 3 views

I used and evaluated this site for an assignment in CHFD 5130 (Creative Activities for Young Children) at UGA. This site is fun and easy to use. It would be fun to use in the classroom as means to...

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started by Kelsey Bone on 04 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
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