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Interactive Whiteboards - Pros & Cons I would love to know everyone's thoughts on the interactive whiteboard and whether you like or dislike it? click on the URL and let me know your thoughts!

All about e-books and how they relate to early childhood learning.  Also includes a "hear from the expert" which could be useful.

ICT resources for Early Years.  Range of cross-curricular resources.

Fantastic site for ECE and Special Ed that encourages critical thinking. Has a vast range of activities from music to maths to more, that are very play-based and mostly educational. Take a look Special Ed and Early Childhood people!

An example use of Bee Bots in early childhood.  

Huge list of apps for kindergarten use.

Use the Planning area of this website to find out how you can plan for ICT so that it underpins each principle of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

Review of Scribble Press (one of the 150 ICT innovations in Decoding Learning report)

This site might help those struggling for an idea for the digital citizenship suggestion for Assign 2. It was shared with me by a current Year 2 teacher.

Thanks for sharing this link, I found it the other day and forgot to put in into my favourites :) Janine

I found this while looking for Australian teacher blogs. This blog has a lot of teaching strategies and plenty of 'freebies' that the blogger has created for the classroom.

Found this through Pinterest, has some cute ideas and videos that help with younger students skip counting :-)

Miss Jacobs' Little Learners is a great blogspot! It is aimed at Early Years education and the post contain great ideas for the classroom.

1000s of free resources that most of the teachers at my work use. It is great as based in UK so has similar spelling to us. Some interactive but mostly printed resources. Invaluable.

I have used this site for years within my daycare class. I love it to bits, awesome resources. I have also seen my son's current teacher use resources from this site too. Great free printable resources. Every teachers dream.

early childhood ideas inside and outdoor activities

I follow this group on Facebook and love seeing all,of their post. They post ideas and believes that should just be second nature to all childhood teachers though sadly are not. Play really does hold such an important role in the learning of young children, whether it is using the natural environment or ICT resources, allow children to be children and enjoy their childhood and let them learn naturally not through over processed activities designed by teachers that just need to meet paper work requirements.

This blog is full of fantastic ideas, resources and creativity for early childhood teachers, and pre service teachers.

current, inspirational and education content and ideas for early childhood educators.

This blog is aimed at Early Childhood Teachers in Australia and should be very informative. The post about equity and equality being very different could be interesting for all.

Early Childhood Teacher in Melbourne Sharing Ideas

I really enjoy following teachers on Instagram and I look at Instagram as micro blogging, a quick snap shot of their classrooms which can give some great ideas. I Teach Prep is one of my favorite Instagram pages and this teacher usually updates daily. Instagram is another digital tool to enhance or learning and communication with other teachers.

Great resources pages and lots of ideas for all areas of the classroom