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Kahlin-Ivie Hilliard

Picnik - 10 views

I really enjoyed this site! I'm not very good with computers, but this site was very easy to navigate. Children can use this site when creating projects for school. They can also use this site at h...

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started by Taylor Meyne on 03 Nov 09 3 follow-ups, last by Kahlin-Ivie Hilliard on 03 Nov 09
Alicia Caldwell

Glogster - 4 views

I think that this is a great alternative to the traditional poster and markers. Since it is something that many students have probably never used before, I think they would be excited to try it. ...

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started by Kimberly Wood on 25 Oct 09 1 follow-up, last by Alicia Caldwell on 26 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
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
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
Diane Bales

Privacy issues in using technology with young children - 5 views

As our class has been discussing technology with young children, the issue of protecting children's privacy has come up more than once. The question I have for this entire group is how to use new t...

started by Diane Bales on 04 Mar 09 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Blagojevic

Technology & Young children - 2 views

www.techandyoungchildren.org

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shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 03 Nov 09
     
    The National Association for the Education of Young Children Technology & Young Children Interest Forum has a website with information about their projects, and a link collection with information on "Tech with Children", "Tech Tools for Educators", "Tech at Home" and Research.
Emily Kmetz

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom - 12 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...using_technology.htm

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shared by Emily Kmetz on 24 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have — the preference for visually presented information.
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  • The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop
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  • On the other hand there are many positive qualities to modern technologies. The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.
  • Computers allow interaction. Children can control the pace and activity and make things happen on computers. They can also repeat an activity again and again if they choose.
  • Yet external symbolic representation such as the written word, visual images on television, and complex three-dimensional videography are all sensed, processed, stored, and acted on by the human brain. Because the brain literally changes in response to experiences, these "new" (from a historical perspective) experiences (the written word or television) cause changes in brain development, brain organization, and brain function that were never expressed hundreds of generations ago.
  • So to tape a conversation and replay it for an adult means something entirely different than when a three-year-old hears their voice on a tape. These experiences can be very positive and mind-expanding for a child — as long as they are done at the right time.
  • Children need real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from available technologies.
  • As parents think about the future they need to realize two things: technology is not going to go away and we are in the midst of a major sociocultural quantum shift. These technologies are revolutionizing the world our children will live in. So our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children.
  • I think the key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world.
  • In the end, as with all other tools, adults must protect children from misuse or inappropriate access.
  • Technologies should be used to enhance curriculum and experiences for childre
  • I believe parents and teachers can take advantage of the interactive qualities of a computer to enhance the experiences available to children.
  • Unfortunately, technology is often used to replace social situations and I would rather see it used to enhance human interaction
  • n addition, there are a number of specialized programs that allow children with certain information-processing problems to get a multimedia presentation of content so that they can better understand and process the materia
Phil Parette

Aha Moments Using Technology to Support Preschool Children - 17 views

I am working on a textbook regarding technology applications in preschool settings. I would like to share some 'aha' moments from family members and teachers, i.e., a moment or two when the potenti...

started by Phil Parette on 27 Aug 10 no follow-up yet
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.
Warren Buckleitner

HINTS Lab: Projects - 0 views

depts.washington.edu/...projects.shtml

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shared by Warren Buckleitner on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Robotic Pets & Preschoolers [pdf]  [top] This study examined preschool children’s reasoning about and behavioral interactions with one of the most advanced robotic pets currently on the retail market, Sony’s robotic dog AIBO. Eighty children, equally divided between two age groups, 34–50 months and 58–74 months, participated in individual sessions with two artifacts: AIBO and a stuffed dog. Evaluation and justification results showed similarities in children’s reasoning across artifacts. In contrast, children engaged more often in apprehensive behavior and attempts at reciprocity with AIBO, and more often mistreated the stuffed dog and endowed it with animation. Discussion focuses on how robotic pets, as representative of an emerging technological genre, may be (a) blurring foundational ontological categories, and (b) impacting children’s social and moral development.
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      Warren Buckleitner on 02 Apr 09
       
      You can't fool a kid. They know the difference between a real dog and a fake one. Or do they? It makes sense that children pick this up at 24 months, when they start reprentational thought. I'd like to read the full study...
  • Warren Buckleitner on 02 Apr 09
     
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  • Warren Buckleitner on 02 Apr 09
     
    Robotic Pets & Preschoolers [pdf] [top] This study examined preschool children's reasoning about and behavioral interactions with one of the most advanced robotic pets currently on the retail market, Sony's robotic dog AIBO. Eighty children, equally divided between two age groups, 34-50 months and 58-74 months, participated in individual sessions with two artifacts: AIBO and a stuffed dog. Evaluation and justification results showed similarities in children's reasoning across artifacts. In contrast, children engaged more often in apprehensive behavior and attempts at reciprocity with AIBO, and more often mistreated the stuffed dog and endowed it with animation. Discussion focuses on how robotic pets, as representative of an emerging technological genre, may be (a) blurring foundational ontological categories, and (b) impacting children's social and moral development.
Kelly Hoang

KidVideos.com - Videos for Kids, by Kids - 2 views

kidvideos.com

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shared by Kelly Hoang on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Hoang on 02 Mar 09
     
    KidVideos is like Youtube for kids. The contents of the videos are appropriate for kids with precreening and monitoring of comments. Children can watch videos in different categories and share their own online. There even contests on the website that the children can enter. Videos can be shared with the children's family. Children can have fun directing, acting, and producing their own videos and possibly creating their own show!
Kelly Hoang

TotSpot | Baby Blog Website, Kids Online Scrapbook, Parent Community - 0 views

totspot.com/login

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shared by Kelly Hoang on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Hoang on 02 Mar 09
     
    TotSpot integrates many aspects of technology together to create a Facebook-like network for parents and their child. The network is private and accessible to only account holders. Parents create an account then are able to add their children to the account on their own page. Pages can be shared through friend invite. The parents and children can upload pictures, videos, write journals, create developmental charts, and track milestones. Friends on the account can view items and make comments. With families living far apart and technology on the rise, families can keep track of their childrens' progress (even before birth!)
Alisa Hilley

Dashboard | Diigo: Wetpaint - 0 views

www.diigo.com/ahilley

http:_wikisineducation.wetpaint.com

shared by Alisa Hilley on 02 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • Alisa Hilley on 02 Mar 09
     
    "A Wetpaint website is built on the power of collaborative thinking. Here, you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based around the whatever-it-is that rocks your socks. A social website that's so easy to use, anyone can participate."\n About Us. (2009). retrieved February 28, 2009 , from WetPaint Web Site: http://www.wetpaint.com/page/about \n\n Technology has become such a great assessment and device to drive and promote learning in the classroom. I believe that it would behoove teachers to take advantages of these new tools and incorporate them in the classroom. Technology has open so many new ways to allow teachers and students to collaborate while learning, and WetPaint is the way to go. By using WetPaint, Teachers can create blogs for their classrooms; which may include, syllabus, information, assignment, etc. The students of the classroom can join the bog and post new information, ask questions, work on projects, etc. WetPaint can be used in classrooms of different ages. The teacher can disable ads and other information that children may not need to see. Parents can also read the blogs. This allows a chance for parents to know what their children are learning and promote these ideas at home. WetPaint is can become child-directed, if the teacher is will to make it that way. If teachers allow children a chance to learn about and experience this in the classroom, WetPaint can become a very child-directed technology. The possibilities are endless with using WetPaint.
Wendi Loggins

Kids Love 2Learn - Create Your Own Website - 12 views

I like how this webpage lists step-by-step instructions on how to create your own website. Each step is even broken down so there's no confusion. This site also allows the younger children to mak...

techchildren website creation

started by Jamie McFarland on 26 Oct 09 2 follow-ups, last by Wendi Loggins on 29 Oct 09
Caroline Kennedy

Tate Kids - 6 views

Tate Kids offers so many outlets for children's imagination and technological abilities. It allows for children to work together and with other classrooms, or schools to create online art projects....

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started by Caroline Kennedy on 05 Mar 09 no follow-up yet
Brittany Milner

The Art Zone - 4 views

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started by Brittany Milner on 04 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Nikki Gibbs

Storybird - 13 views

Storybird is a really fun, interactive, and collaborative site. I know that I'm not the most creative person and have a hard time getting started with things coming up with a story line, so I love ...

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started by Lauren Braucher on 03 Nov 09 2 follow-ups, last by Nikki Gibbs on 03 Nov 09
Bonnie Blagojevic

LTP | Getting Started: "I Wanna Take Me a Picture" - 2 views

cds.aas.duke.edu/wanna.html

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shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • we’re living in a visual culture
  • benefits of positive visual stimulation
  • Even very young children, when encouraged, have the ability to express their complex emotional lives visually.
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  • until the second or third grade a child’s predominant means of self-expression is drawing.
  • But when they’re just beginning to write, they often rely on their drawings rather than their writing to convey the meaning of the story.
  • the need to attend to our neglected physical and visual surroundings
  • and the need we all feel to articulate and communicate something relevant about our personal and communal lives.
  • thirty years of thinking about how we learn, and how we express ourselves with images.
  • when I demonstrated how the camera worked to the people I wanted to photograph, everyone, myself included, felt more at ease.
  • Their desire to be photographed was as strong as their desire to photograph.
  • The children’s pictures were more complicated and disturbing than mine — and, I began to realize, much closer to what it felt like to be there.
  • Merton’s photograph reflects that fear.
  • Their pictures and writings made for an uncompromising look at the problems they faced.
  • It’s unlikely that the young people would ever have written what they did without the pictures to prompt them (Kathy’s writing came from the beautiful landscape photographs she’d made), and the pictures would have been difficult to decipher without the stories to accompany them.
  • their photo-essays were a starting point for acknowledging and discussing, in their own voices, a very tough predicament. (
  • how photography and writing stimulated one another. Many of the students I worked with had trouble writing; they would labor painfully over a sentence or two. But when they worked from a photograph that had something to do with their own lives, especially a picture they had taken themselves, they were able to write more — and what they wrote about was their own experiences.
  • Asking them to write about the subject they were going to photograph, then asking them to make a list of images suggested by their writing — this was a way to help them organize their picture-taking before they went out to shoot.
  • These children had never seen each other’s neighborhoods, certainly not each other’s homes or families. They were essentially strangers to each other.
  • When the students brought back pictures of their families and communities, each child tried to explain what was going on in the pictures, and the others eagerly asked questions.
  • teachers rarely come from the same community as their students. Photographs can give them a glimpse into their students’ lives.
  • Photography is perhaps the most democratic visual art of our time. For most of us, picture taking is a part of our family lives. We don’t need a particular talent, like the hand-eye coordination necessary for drawing, to render what we look at. Even children and adults unfamiliar with photography can make photographs of what they see and imagine. For those of us who have used cameras, photography offers a language that can draw on the imagination in a way we may never have thought possible before.
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09
     
    Wendy Ewald shares from lessons learned working with children, using photography to express themselves. Lots of interesting ideas.
Bonnie Blagojevic

Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children ... - 23 views

www.naeyc.org/...technology-and-young-children

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shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 08 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 08 Mar 12
     
    A joint position statement issued by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College. In addition to an interactive PDF version, there is a Key Messages handout (1 page, two-sided) that could be easily reproduced/used for discussion, examples of effective practice, as well as a pre-recorded webcast.
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