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Please view my classroom [|Susan Cottom's classroom]

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Thanks Isabel for sharing your Little Rascals video. It was perfect for my Glogster.

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I explored the ARTPAD website. media type="custom" key="9796816"

I found this technology to be good for developing fine motor skills, language skills and math skills. I could offer different tasks for the computer activity center that would allow the child to develop many skills. A Pre-K student could use this website to work on their fine motor skills by using the mouse as the paintbrush. It would help the child to also develop their language skills as they write their name. It would help their math skills as they learn their colors. I find this tool to be best for helping introduce the child to the computer. I would have the computer set up that the child could access the website as an icon on the screen. One of the inappropriate applications would be that a child might not want to take turns. Many children start playing on the computer with a tendency to not leave. I would have to monitor their time carefully. I would rate this tool as a 3. It would be a tool to be use as a steppingstone to other computer applications such as KERPOOF. media type="custom" key="9796814"

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“Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.” **Bob Keeshan aka…Captain Kangaroo **

Captain Kangaroo knew children take play very seriously. They are out to have fun and do their best. When you see a child on the playground or at a center activity; they are concentrating so hard on what they are doing they lose themselves in the play.

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This video represents many of the key points of play. As Stuart Brown stated if you don’t have play you have depression. This looks at the benefits of play in preventing depression. That play should be rough and tumble; the children get more out of rough and tumble play than organized play such as soccer. You need play in your life to learn other skills. This video talk about the great benefit we get from laughter often a side effect of play. I like that it shows all beings need to laugh from rats to humans.

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This Glogster represents the important things to me concerning play.

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