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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...

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.

This article mentions some of the benefits of using Diigo, and in the comments section, there is some discussion of importing bookmarks, with tags, from Delicious, for those interested in trying that out.

This is better than totlol because it's free :) Part of KidZui, I like the searching, browsing, and channel options. I'm not entirely sure how videos get in because you can 'report' videos, and they've definitely removed some videos because if you search for "sex" you'll find a bunch, and several have been removed. But, it's better than just letting a kid loose on youtube :)

I really loved this website! It would be great in a classroom because a teacher can easily find videos that are appropriate for his/her classroom. My favorite aspect would probably be how they set aside a videos specifically for Halloween! This would be really fun in a classroom around Halloween, and I bet they do it for more than just Halloween.

Very interesting book with suggestions on teaching photography and writing to children.

We have really enjoyed ideas shared in this book. The publisher provides a free sample chapter and table of contents for the book.

Quite a collection of Web 2.0 tools!

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet

One nice thing I've discovered about Diigo is that you can set it up to automatically save your bookmarks to delicious when you save them to Diigo.

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

search tool for sound clips

I really like the idea of this - I wish it didn't have a fee, tho.

Overview/introduction to Diigo, and some of the features available.

Free site that allows for collaborative learning as well as shared resources. I really enjoy the rubrics.

Help to get started with learning about the many features of Diigo available in this new version. (have to break it up and learn a few at a time, but can see the potential for it to be really useful.)

a community for educators to share and collaborate lesson plans and resources.