What a fun online activity for kids (and adults!) from the New York Zoos & Aquarium. Apparently I’m a Hiss-Bird! Found this site on the ALSC blog post The Latest Additions to Great Web Sites for Kids. Lots of other fun things listed there.
Posts Tagged ‘Kids’
KidLib Camp 2009 – August 13
Don’t miss this unconference! KidLibCamp – for librarians interested in youth service in school & public libraries. KidLibCamp 2009 is a place for youth services librarians to get together and talk about topics that are important to serving children in school and public libraries. KidLibCamp is an unconference that asks participants to share their work, [...]
Fun READ posters from the “If the light’s on, we’re home…” library
The kids and teens at the Stillwater (NY) Free Library have a created a great set of READ posters as part of their summer reading program. Great example of a fun, creative project on a budget! And don’t you love the libraries motto? “If the light’s on, we’re home.”
Scratch Day: May 16, 2009
Do you know kids who would like to create their own online games, stories, animations and more? Who doesn’t! Then take a look at Scratch – a wonderful free programming tool “designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical [...]
Scratch: Imagine, Program, Share
Scratch, from the MIT Media Lab, is a programming tool “designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.” This demo video is all kinds of [...]
Glogster: taking posters to a whole new level
Glogster for Education lets you create online posters with graphics, photos, text, video and audio. Wow, what a great tool for student projects. I can see lots of other fun uses for this in public libraries too. Though Glogster has been around for a while, I just heard about it today in a twitter post [...]
