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This is a blog written by John Funk who "has worked in the early childhood field since 1979. He has taught preschool, first and second grades, and he spent the largest part of his teaching career in kindergarten. Mr. Funk was named "Utah Teacher of the Year" in 1996. He has worked as an early childhood specialist for a large school district and has managed early childhood services for Salt Lake CAP Head Start. He is past president of the Utah AEYC. As an early childhood, reading, and literacy consultant for the last decade, he has written on early childhood subjects and products for McGraw Hill and Leap Frog. He served on the editorial panel for Young Children magazine published by NAEYC. Currently, Mr. Funk is the Manager of Educational Programs for Excelligence Learning Corporation, and he teaches courses in children's literature and early reading at the University of Utah."

Thousands of articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources highlight success stories in K-12 education. Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning, technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment.

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.

very cool way to learn and study vocabulary words.....

This website is very creative and fun. However, I do not think it is appropriate for early childhood education. The vocabulary is way too advanced for this age group. Also, while the pictures and videos are funny many of them are inappropriate for children. It is definitely a website for older, more mature students.

An attempt to shed light on the recurring worry about a topic that keeps coming up, but few people seem to want to systematically -- young children and RF (Radio Frequency) radiation that comes with devices like iPhones, and connected gaming systems like the PSP and DS.

No need to worry about travel costs or any of that....just skype an author and have your class watch and listen for free...very cool

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

Great blog about using technology to assist children with developmental delays and disabilities.

Allows you to create a free website (both teachers and students). Also allows homework assignments online, keep parents up to date, and create a classroom blog.

BlogSome is Fast, easy and free, you have a choice of themes, photos can be uploaded, and it can be personalized. Nice website for classroom blogging.

With this site you can paint, draw, edit photos, put artwork on your blog or website using the art player, and create graffiti. There are activities that children of all ages can take part in, but this site would seem to benefit older children more than younger children. However, younger children could paint and draw on this site. This site is easy to navigate and it's free.