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"The Future of Apps for Young Children: Beyond ABC & 123" Reaching out to app developers to urge them to take a holistic approach to development. Great apps and app developers mentioned in this post!

Reaching out to app developers to urge them to take a holistic approach to development. Great apps and app developers mentioned in this post!

Gail Lovely's list of Top Ten Web 2.0 tools for young learners. Should be interesting to check this out.

#6. Glogster EDU- This is a great way to incorporate the school into the home. This program allows teacher to show caregivers what is being done in the classroom (i.e. uploading class calendars, posting students' projects, etc.). If teachers post educational practice links, students are able to practice certain skills learned in the classroom at home. This program also allows parents to connect with the teacher, it will allow parents and teachers to communicate via blogs.

Wonderful that someone put together a list of the top ten tools for young children,their parents and teachers. Several sites would be helpful in working with young children or counseling are: 1. Wordle - students could create a poster of words they know and continue adding new words. 2. Yola - a user friendly software that allows teacher, parents, student to create a web site.to share information with others. 3. Blogs - the KinderKids Blog published class projects that could be view by parents or serve as means of communicating with classrooms around the world.

A scavenger hunt app aimed at science and math in early ed. http://ow.ly/cYfem from Fred Rogers Center

A scavenger hunt app aimed at science and math in early ed. http://ow.ly/cYfem from Fred Rogers Center

This is a great site used to share pictures, videos, comments and favorite sites. Users can create their own album and homepage and send that link for their friends to view! You can also make personalized gifts from the pictures that you have posted up--a perfect holiday gift!

This would be a great resource to use when counseling children. In conjunction with Art Therapy, the child could create characters to express themselves and situations. These could be saved, shared, and used to analyze the child's progress.

children can create a character and add voice as a means of expressing themselves.

List and examples of many different types of technology that young children could use to create, communicate, and share and organize their learning. All examples have links to the actual tools used to create them.

Tikatok is a website where you can create your own book using your own pictures scanned into the computer. You can order a copy of your completed book so that you can have a hard copy of what you or your children have created. This is a great tool for teachers or parents to inspire a child's imagination to create a story with both words and pictures.

I really like this site and would definitely use it if I had children. It makes it so easy to make a story and actually get a hard copy of it. I reviewed Storybird, which is another site that allows you to create stories, but it doesn't have the option of ordering it. I think this is a step up from Storybird!

This blog is written by an early childhood teacher out of Australia. He uses it to share his experiences in his own classroom and offer ideas to other teachers or early childhood specialists from a Montessori perspective.

This is an example of a WordPress Blog written by a teacher from Austrailia who uses this to share his experiences in his early childhood classroom. This is a great resource for anyone working in a classroom because he offers great recipes to use in activity plans and shares his ideas on how an early childhood classroom should be run form a Montessori perspective.

Great for schools! Can be used to blog for teachers, students, professors or anyone involved in education. It also helps schools and university control their own blogs. Very helpful for the education world.

List of apps that could be beneficial to education. Most are more appropriate for elementary and older.

MacArthur Foundation's "Building the Field of Digital Media and Learning" website.

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.

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...

A mom's blog with ideas for using technology with children in productive ways.

Bummer, this was last updated in January 2009. This looked nice!

This site provides many examples of websites that parents or teachers could use with their children. Links are given with detailed descriptions, uses of the technology, and an example is provided that this mother used with her children. Examples of technology include make-your-own poster online and make-your-own video consisting of your photos.

The ECLKC is offered by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start.

How to article on iPods and podcasting for students.

This is a very useful site for those interestign in learning more about using web2.0 tools within the education realm. With this site you are able to connect with others and share experiences and ideas in using web2.0 tools.

In case anyone ever asked why twitter is important.....

tool to animate graphics

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.