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Little Hands on the Internet

Little Hands on the Internet. Linda L. Mills Library Media Specialist Greensburg Elementary School Greensburg, Indiana 47240 lmills@venus.net. NECC conference 2004. Phone: 812-934-3844. Why Internet for Young Children. To show them the world To open up new horizons

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Little Hands on the Internet

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  1. Little Hands on the Internet Linda L. Mills Library Media Specialist Greensburg Elementary School Greensburg, Indiana 47240 lmills@venus.net NECC conference 2004 Phone: 812-934-3844

  2. Why Internet for Young Children • To show them the world • To open up new horizons • To obtain material not easily accessible • To show them that this is something they will be doing later in life • Surfing the Net with Kids www.surfnetkids.com

  3. The Internet for young children… • Is not a substitute for books or libraries • Is not something they will be using by themselves • Is a tool to show that learning is all around us…that reading is important to help us communicate • Will show them that some information is readily available at our fingertips

  4. Misconceptions • Internet, World Wide Web and E-Mail are the same • The Internet has all of the answers. It will replace libraries and books. • Everything is free or accessible. • Everything you see on the Internet is accurate, reliable, or up to date. • Yes, it has pornography, bomb making, how to break the law…but you have to seek these things out.

  5. Do they have the fine motor skills, cognitive skills, or language and literacy skills to use digital resources? They can use software. They can use keyboards. They can follow pictorial directions. They can use visual cues to understand. Digital resources for young children

  6. The question today is not ARE these technologies appropriate, but rather how do we use these new technologies in appropriate ways to enhance children's learning and development.

  7. Steps to take when introducing students to technology • Use technology for word processing • Use technology wisely and judiciously • Use technology correctly • Use technology as an extension of your curriculum • Use the Internet as you would any other tools in the classroom

  8. white mouse: Small squeaky furry rodent. computer mouse: A way of telling the computer what to do without using the keyboard.

  9. screen: 1. object inserted into a window to keep bugs outside, or 2. viewing surface for movie screen: viewing surface of computer monitor

  10. house window: An opening in a house enabling you to look inside or outside. computer window: An opening into a software application or program.

  11. piano keyboard: A way to make music. computer keyboard: A way of telling the computer what to do.

  12. landing net: a fishing accessory. computer net: Short for network, a way to hook computers together so they can share information.

  13. Where to find ideasfor sites • Magazines • Books • Conduct searches using standard search engines or directories • Conduct searches using portals

  14. Magazines to try • Classroom Connect www.classroomconnect.com • Learning and Leading with Technology • MultiMedia Schools • Technology and Learning However, many of your magazines like Lollipops, Mailbox, Creative Classroom, Bookbag, Instructor have sites to try also.

  15. Books • The Internet Kids Yellow Pages by Jean Armour Polly, McGraw Hill, 2003 • Yahooligans!Way Cool Web Sites by Richard Raucci, IDG Books, 1996 • Surfin’ the Internet; Practical Ideas from A to Z by Annette Lamb, Vision to Action, 2001 • Yellow Pages by Classroom Connect, 2000 These are just a sampling of books available to help you find things on the Web. Classroom Connect is an especially good publisher of educational sites on the Web.

  16. Adult Search Engines/Directories • Google http://www.google.com • AltaVista http://www.altavista.com • Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com • Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com • Dogpile http://dogpile.com • Teoma http://www.teoma.com • Vivisimo http://vivisimo.com/

  17. Sites to use/Kid Search Engines • KidsClick! http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ • Blue Webn’ http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn • Yahooligans www.yahooligans.com • Discovery School http://www.discoveryschool.com/schrockguide • Ask Jeeves for Kids www.ajkids.com • Awesome Library www.awesomelibrary.org • Kids Search Tools http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm • Internet Public Library KidSpace www.ipl.org/KidSpace

  18. Other Kid Search sites • Great Sites http://www.ala.org/greatsites • Berit’s Best Sites for Children http://www.beritsbest.com

  19. A resource to help you learn more about Kids’ Search Engines Haycock, Ken, Michelle Dober, and Barbara Edwards. Authoritative Guide to Kids’ Search Engines, Subject directories, and Portals. Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2003. Also try the following site to learn more about search engines: http://www.searchenginewatch.com

  20. Web Evaluation or What Makes a Good Web Site • Organization, layout, and ease of use • Graphics/topography • Authority--edu vs. com • Accuracy • Links-within/outside • Coverage • Currency • Objectivity

  21. Internet Domains Every address is classified as a type of domain, just like every address has a state and zip code. This helps the Internet deliver the message. • com -commercial organization • edu - educational institutions • gov - government, nonmilitary • mil - military • org - other organizations • net - network resources Email going to international locations have different domains placed on the end, a country code.

  22. How does the Internet help you, the teacher? • Lesson plans and ideas • Online professionals to answer questions • Online projects for your class • Professional resource materials • Reference sites • Listservs • Interactive tutorials • Webcams • Virtual Field Trips • WebQuests

  23. Lesson Plan Sites There are many lesson plan sites out there to try. Sample a few of the following and see if they can help you save time. • Kindergarten Connection http://www.kconnect.com/ • The Activity Idea Place http://www.123child.com/ • A to Z Teacher Stuff http://AtoZTeacherStuff.com • LessonPlanZ.com http://www.LessonPlanz.com • Mr. Donn’s Lesson Plan Page http://members.alo.com/donnanalee/siteindex.html • Gigglepotz http://www.gigglepotz.com • Edupuppy http://www.edupuppy.com • Midge Frazel http://www.midgefrazel.net

  24. Online professionals • Ask an expert http://www.askanexpert.com • Big Chalk http://www.bigchalk.com • Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math

  25. Online Projects • Email or keypals • Projects to join up with • Your own projects to collaborate with others

  26. Email/Keypals • KidLink (Empowering kids and you to build global networks of friends) http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/intro.html • Epals http://www.epals.com • Keypals http://www.teaching.com/keypals • Thinkquest (a non profit organization offering programs designed to advance education through the use of technology) http://www.thinkquest.org

  27. Online Projects with Other Classes Get your feet wet with other projects on the Internet before doing one of your own. However, once you are ready, here’s some places to go to find projects to try. • Classroom Connect http://www.classroomconnect.net • Global School Net http://gsn.org • Web 66 http://web66.coled.umn.edu • The MegaPenny Project http://kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp • Mind’s Eye Monster Exchange Project http://www.win4edu.com/minds-eye/monster • Monarch Watch http://www.MonarchWatch.org • KIDPROJ http://www.kidlink.org

  28. Answers to Research on Early Childhood • Earlychildhood http://www.earlychildhood.com • ERIC http://www.ericeece.org • Preschool Zone http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/pz.html • Resource Center for Early Childhood Education http://www.tenet.edu/ • Early Childhood Teacher Pages http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/teacher.html

  29. General Reference Sites These are sites that will give you information on a variety of encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference materials, and magazines to help you find information. • Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/ • Library Spot http://www.libraryspot.com • Indiana Department of Education http://www.doe.state.in.us • Index to the Internet http://www.lii.org • iTools http://www.itools.com/ • Reference Desk http://www.refdesk.com/

  30. Listservs Listservs are places to go when you want to talk to others about topics of interest to everyone. There are many listservs out there to use. Try the following to find ones that might interest you. Early Childhood Mailing List http://users.sgi.net/~cokids/Mailing_Lists.html ECENET-L listserv@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu Procedures at http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/eece/listserv/ecenet-l.html

  31. Interactive Sites • Learning Planet http://www.learningplanet.com/ • Wanna Learn http://www.wannalearn.com/ • Poem Pack http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/index.shtml • Internet Coloring books www.coloringpage.org/drawing.htm • Boowa and Kwala http://www.boowakwala.com • Hangman at Kids Corner http://kids.ot.com/cgi/kids/hangman • Blue Dog Can Count http://kao.ini.cmu.edu/bdf.html

  32. Web Cams Live cams are another way to “see” things on the net. The following are sites you might try. • Tommy’s List of Live Cams http://www.rt66.com/ozone/cam.htm • Live NASA Cams http://ambitweb.com/nasacams/nasacams.html • Science Webcams http://dsc.discovery.com/cams/cams.html

  33. Virtual Field Trips Virtual Field Trips and Web Museums is a portal created by Midge Frazel with many links to virtual field trips. It will take you to a variety of museums all over to explore. It includes the Louvre, Field Musuem, and Museum of National History in Washington, D.C. It will also let you explore such places as Oregon Trail, Colonial Williamsburg, and Death Valley to name a few. http://midgefrazel.net/fieldtrip.html Field Guides http://www.field-guides.com

  34. WebQuests • WebQuest page http://webquest.sdsu.edu • Schools of California Online Resources http://www.score.k12.ca.us/ • An Insect’s Perspective http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/insects/top.htm

  35. The Internet can be used directly for all subject areas for Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third. Sites are just harder to find. Just keep on searching.

  36. Literature • Jan Brett www.janbrett.com • Tedd Arnold www.geocities.com/teddarnold • Marc Brown http://pbskids.org/arthur/grownups/marc_brown/ • Eric Carle www.eric-carle.com • Mem Fox www.memfox.net • Patricia Polcacco www.patriciapolacco.com • Seussville www.randomhouse.com/seussville • Audrey Wood www.audreywood.com • Storybooks www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/content.html • Eduscapes http://educscapes.com/

  37. Holidays • All kinds of holiday stuff http://members.aol.com/Donnpages/Holidays.html • Schrock’s holiday sites http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/holidays.html • Lil Fingers http://www.lil-fingers.com/

  38. Eisenhower Clearinghouse for Math and Sciencehttp://www.enc.org • Using Live Insects in the Elem. Classroom http://insected.arizona.edu/uli.htm • Zoom School http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/school • Online Autumn http://comseqogue.k12.ny.us/~ssilverman/autumn/index.html • ZooLinks http://members.aol.com/zoonetkids/ • Ranger Rick’s Kid Zone http://www.nwf.org/kids • Gigglepotz Science http://www.gigglepotz.com/science.htm

  39. Science • What is it? http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/whatisit.html

  40. Social Studies • Zoom School www.EnchantedLearning.com/school/index.html • The White House for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids • Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids http://bensguide.gpo.gov • What is the Capital of….? http://www.what-is-the-capital-of.com • Social Studies projects http://www.gigglepotz.com/curriculum.htm

  41. Geography • Zoom School www.EnchantedLearning.com/school/index.html • Postcard Geography http://cyberbee.com/howto.html#participate • National Geographic Society http://www.nationalgeographic.com • Geography Page http://geography.about.com • Social Studies projects http://www.gigglepotz.com/curriculum.htm

  42. Art • Carlo’s Coloring Page www.ravenna.com/coloring • Crayola www.crayola.com/art_education • Aunt Annie’s Craft Page www.auntannie.com • Nikolai’s Web Site www.nikolai.com/nnn.htm • I Spy www.lexmark.com/data/spy/spy.html • Hop Pop Town http://www.kids-space.org/HPT

  43. Math Sites • Numbertime www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime • Flashcards http://www.edu4kids.com/math/ • AAA Math http://www.aaamath.com/ • Figure this Out! http://www.figurethis.org/ • Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/lessonplans/prek-2/subtraction/index.html

  44. More Math Sites • Learning Box http://www.learningbox.com • Aunty Mathhttp://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/ • Primary Math Gameshttp://www.primarygames.com/math.htm • Dr. FreeMathhttp://ois.unomaha.edu/drfreemath • Interactive Mathematics Miscellany & Puzzles http://www.cut-the-knot.com • Jumpin’ Jehosaphat the Counting Sheephttp://www.dodds1.com/Java/Jj.html • Arithmetic Softwarehttp://forum.swarthmore.edu/arithmetic/arith.software.html

  45. Health and Safety sites • Smokey the Bear http://www.smokeybear.com/ • Magic School Bus www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/colgate/index.html • Kids Health www.kidshealth.ng/kid/ill_injure • A Tooth Unit http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/teeth/ • Yucky World http://www.yucky.com • P.E. Central http://www.pecentral.org/ • Bill Nye http://www.billnye.com

  46. Misc. sites • Free downloads http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/ • Funology http://www.funology.com/index.cfm • Scholastic (falls into all categories) http://www.scholastic.com/ • Holiday Clip Art http://members.cyberz.net/jkeepes/holiday.htm • School Clip Art http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

  47. Using the Internet with Lil’l Kids • Changing the way teachers teach, and students learn • Empowers everyone, from adult to child to become lifelong learners • Complements your school library media center • Students need Net access to become knowledgeable workers of the 21st Century

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