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Storytelling is important tool for many communities. There are lots of different reasons communities tell stories. In this roundtable participants will discuss the potential for using digital stories urban environments to serve urban teachers and...

Most educators of young children are familiar with storytelling and believe storytelling is a critical component of their instruction. In deed, many early childhood educators and researchers advocate that storytelling can contribute significantly to ...

Web 2.0 is receiving great attention. So what is Web 2.0 and what is its applicability to higher education? Are institutions are of higher education and/or today's students using it? This session will (i) describe web 2.0 tools (ii) share the...

This session will share research on the practices and attitudes of teacher educators and preservice teachers' regarding visual literacy, specifically the use of digital movies and images in early childhood education. Teacher and curricular...

This session considers research on and practices for preparing early childhood teachers to locate, evaluate and implement virtual manipulatives. In recent years, a number of websites have been developed that contain "virtual" versions of many of the ...

This paper addresses strategies and materials teacher educators can use to familiarize their preservice and inservice teachers with current options in assistive technology and prepare them to work with assistive technology. Preservice teachers need ...

New social-sharing applications are transforming the Internet from a "read-only" (Web 1.0) environment to a "read-write" ecology that many are calling Web 2.0. These tools (e.g., weblogs and wikis) enable Internet users to publish information online ...

Early childhood teacher education methods classes often emphasize the application of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP). In today's digital age, it is important for teacher educators and their students to think about how to extend DAP to...

Early childhood teachers around the country and the world guide children's mathematical learning through the use of manipulatives--pattern blocks, base blocks, geoboards, Unifx cubes, Cuisenaire rods, coins, clocks, and so on. Manipulatives allow...