Early Years ICT

Wonderful website for 'Place'

This website has a very simple mapping and satellite tool to enable very young children to research where they live.

Many applications for developing early Geography.

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Wonderful website for book lovers

Link to http://www.wordpool.co.uk/index.htm

This is a lovely website to browse when looking for ideas to enhance your book collection.

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Easy to use Video

Link to http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=pe_18601_20708311_pe_31Q3/?docId=1000422003&ie=UTF8

Do you want to video your children without the hassle of expensive and difficult equipment? -- this could be just for you.

This camera is point and shoot, has an integrated USB connection and is so easy a child could use it - and probably should!

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Wonderful website

Link to http://www.singup.org/songbank/songs/view/song/82/the-animals-went-in-two-by-two/

This is a lovely website, ideal for use with a whiteboard. There are many traditional songs and songs from other cultures for children to enjoy.

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Handy Hardware

Link to http://www.thelittlepeoplestore.co.uk/products/easi-scope.htm

The easi- scope is perfect for magnifying very small items and then viewing them on a computer screen. This can also be linked to a whiteboard, to share with the class.

A very useful piece of kit for integrating several areas of curriculum

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Super software suggestion

Pretty things

Practitioners have told me how much they like this new piece of software, designed to enhance children's creativity. It looks pretty good and has won the Practical Pre- School Gold award.

Handy Hardware

Award winning programmable floor robot, the Bee-Bot's simple and child friendly layout is a perfect starting point for teaching control, directional language and programming to young children.

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Shortlisted for the 2008 BETT Award for Early Years Solutions, Beep! Beep! extends the format of Beep! with a collection of six new and original activities for 3-5 year-olds, based on the themes of creative play and exploration. The activities encourage young children to express their ideas, offering endless opportunities for creative thinking and discussion.

Beep Beep Website