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 and [...]
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Scratch Day: May 16, 2009
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 wonderful. [...]
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 [...]
ALSC – Great Technology Programs for Children
If you’re looking for some great children’s programming incorporating technology, visit the Great Technology Programs for Children wiki page.
There are currently about a dozen listings including programs related to reading, storytime, gaming and more. Detailed notes will help you implement similar programs.
Have your own great program? Contribute! This is part of the ALSC [...]
Digital Drugs? Is it April Fool’s Day?
When I saw this column in the paper today Digital Drugs: A new worry for parents, I immediately wondered if I’d been whisked around the calendar to April Fool’s Day. But, no, it’s not April and a quick search showed that this has been carried by many of the major news sources [...]
StoryTubes Gearing Up for Next Year
One of the projects I really enjoy being involved with is our statewide summer reading program. And that’s how I found out about the awesome StoryTubes project. Children from all over the country created short videos about their favorite books. What fun! We had 7 terrific entries from NYS this year. Let’s have more next [...]
