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My y1s are really enjoying Scratchjr, great for younger children, and as it's a free app it's good for the school budget too.

My 5 year old daughter loves Scratch Jr. She had a tutorial from us initially, but was able to use the software independently very quickly, to her own delight.

I as a teacher love scratch. And of course for the students too, scratch is fun way of learning.

I am began teaching coding this semester in my computer lab. I haven't played with scratch too much but look forward to using with my kids next week.

I have used the computer version of Scratch with students in grades 3-6 (in Australia). My colleagues were amazed when students produced maze games where if the player bumped into the maze walls they were returned to the start - little did they know how easy it was once we got the hang of the coding. Great stuff.

This looks amazing! Thanks for the link.

i use http://www.codecademy.com/ to learn myself ... and for the kids http://www.tynker.com/

There is also scratch.mit.edu/ , fantastic for computer programming. Hopscotch and Tynker are iPad applications that you can use, they are free. I agree code.org is fantastic, the hour of code occurs in December.

Like it, easy for children to create their own, as you suggest, book cover. Technology in kids hands should evoke creativity and not only be a means of media consumption.

A very useful tool. Can be used for creative designing.

We can practice adjectives, nouns , verbs, adverbs. We can make them to create Noun Cloud. :) That would be awesome. It motivates children to create some very personalize. They would chose the shapes for their group of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, articles, etc.

Which is a good software to help students (4-5 yrs) prepare a simple slideshow or arrange pictures in a logical sequence (eg. transformation of a butterfly from egg to adult)?

There are a lot of different ways of using word clouds as far as EFL is concerned. You name it: 1) predict the content of a text e.g. topics, style, purpose, etc. 2) writing or speaking prompts 3) reading comprehension questions just, then comparing answers after reading the actual text 4) summarise a presentation 5) identify or create the key words to a text 6) expanding vocabulary (definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or brainstorm words associated with a new one, match parts of collocations) 7) explore a topic (students add own ideas to a question stimulus & build a cloud) 8) student ice-breaker 9) highlight examples of misspelled or overused words in student writing by inputting their own work 10) 'grammar game' e.g. students classify words from a cloud into different parts of speech or different tenses 11) 'sentence structure' game e.g. input a complex sentence or short series of sentences into a word cloud, and have students reconstruct them in the correct word order 12) 'memory game' e.g. show a word cloud, take it off the screen, students write as many words as they can recall 13) identify parts of speech (students highlight or underline in different colours) 14) Students pre-assessing their own knowledge and understanding - "What does something mean to me?" as in a KWL chart

Hi you also use this Online RSN to BSN Degree Program for more knowledge and acknowledgement.

I have seen these in classrooms. They definitely seem to help the students.

Khan Academy is a free resource that students can use at home or school. Lawrence

Khan Academy is an excellent tool which has so many lessons students can access and learn at their own pace.

I agree this is a good website have used it a number of times in the past

This looks like a great site to use with students to target gaps in their learning. Thanks.

Awesome! Thank you I have the same problem.

You might like to know they make an app called Junior Lightbot.