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."
Great way for teachers to incorporate digital skills into the curriculum. Offers planning guides, teaching techniques, activities and projects for teaching computer graphics and image editing.
Teaching Young Children past issues page http://www.naeyc.org/tyc/pastissues includes a link to this article on using the digital camera in an early childhood setting tyc.naeyc.org/articles/digital/pdf/digital.pdf
Article about a new app, Learn with Homer, free on iPad, that helps teach young children how to read. Interesting videos on utube about it. It got me to download the app.
What if you could summon the world's leading thinkers from some of the most esteemed institutions to teach you anything, anytime? Well, now you can. All it takes is your computer and iTunes U.
This is the homepage of Curtis J. Bonk, Ph.D. Curt teaches at Indiana University in the School of Education where he is in the Instructional Systems Technology Department. In addition, he is president and founder of CourseShare, LLC and SurveyShare, Inc.