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"This site contains resources for: iPads in the Classroom - October 20, 21 iPad Multimedia Tools for Creativity, Collaboration, and Publication This seminar will cover some of the best audio, photography, and video apps for use in education."

"CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge CONNECT is creating a series of web-based modules for national educational use by Early Childhood instructors and learners. "

"Preschool "U" dives deep into the depths of learning and teaching children with and without learning disabilities and challenging behaviors. A useful series on recognizing the characteristics of challenging behaviors and practical interventions for the classroom, these strategies will aid in giving support to children who exhibit these characteristics allowing them to be more successful not only in the classroom but in the entire school as well."

"Toontastic is a Creative Learning tool for the iPad that empowers kids to draw and animate their own cartoons and share them with friends and family around the world."

""Technology and Literacy: Promises, Promises and Promises", from Once Upon an App: A Survey of Apps Related to Language Development 2015."

"These preschoolers were each assigned a color, and were then tasked with finding objects in the classroom that matched their color. We then took their pictures with their objects, and in some cases, the students were the photographers!"

"Our kindergarten class put together this interpretation of Peter Reynolds' book "The Dot." The kids made their own artworks, selected their own props, posed themselves based on the artwork in the book, took the pictures with a digital camera, and read the text themselves!"

A partnership between The University of Akron College of Education, (UA) and Akron Summit Community Action, Inc (ASCA), Akron Ready Steps (ARS) is a program that serves over 300 at risk children in five Head Start sites in high poverty communities in Akron, OH. Program goals address high priority knowledge and skills preschoolers need to learn; high priority knowledge and skills teachers/teacher assistants need to teach; the design of high quality 21st century language and literacy-rich environments; active parent engagement; and mobilizing the community around strong preschool literacy education.

"Gail Lovely: Technology & Literacy - Promises, Promises... and PROMISE!"