http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/27/designing-websites-for-kids-trends-and-best-practices/

http://www.deyalexander.com.au/resources/uxd/children.html

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/09/best-practices-for-designing-usable-websites-for-kids/

Designing for Children

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/children.html

Proposal: James & Blueberry

Project Description:

1.  Teach children using puppets.

2.  Teach children how to follow Christ by demonstrating how to apply biblical teachings in visual and entertaining ways. Our goal is to incorporate one of the structures on campus to create interest in not only the videos and website, but the actually church itself. 

3.   Timeline

·      Due Week 4: Redesigned Site built in HTML5

·      Due Week 5: Interaction functionality implemented

·      Due Week 6: Polish loose ends

·      Due Week 7: Dance and celebrate

4.   Videos will be fresh and targeted for today’s generation of children who have, for the most part, left the borders of Sesame Street toward higher level learning.

5.   Children ages 5-8 years old.

6.  Survey Results

Children find puppets amusing, and because so, they pay attention to what the puppet is doing or saying and in turn they retain the knowledge learned. 

Using Puppets Effectively for Kids Ministry

Puppets are a big part of many children's ministries around the world because the can be so effective at entertaining and educating children. Puppets can be a big help to ministry workers that are facing significant challenges in their efforts to minister to kids.

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1 Comment Home > Education > K-12 Learning > Elementary Education The Use of Puppets in the Early Childhood Classroom Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/7976.aspx#ixzz1TEsWo4K6

Preschool and PreKindergarten children love to be entertained with puppets.

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Using puppets for language teaching

Puppets have long been recognized as a powerful stimulus for oral work for many reasons.

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Puppets As a Learning Tool to Teach Self-Control For Your Autistic Child

Puppets create a way of not threatening your child, by teaching self-control as a learning tool, for the fact that they are animated and do not show an adult authoritative power.

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Using Puppets to Teach Kids About Nutrition

Schoolchildren in Lawrenceville, GA, are being encouraged to eat their veggies by new spokespeople-puppets.

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Play Therapy using Puppets

Puppets used to teach Social Skills to children with Special Needs. These kids with Asperger Syndrome seem to relate to the use of puppets in learning social skills.

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If SHAQ can do it, anyone can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EszTF-Tbt1w&feature=topvideos_comedy

Teaching Children with Puppets | Film Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgT7RrHSWuo

Google + | I hear it's all the rage

So I guess Google isn't taking over the world?


But Facebook is...?

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Shhh, don't tell Amy

NON RELATIONAL DATABASE STRUCTURES?! Say what!

Yup, Facebook and Twitter already implement a hybrid of noSQL for their huge inventory of data. In fact, Twitter had to mix it up to prevent crashes!

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Cool Development Resources

Neil Skirrow has assembled a great list of what he considers essential development resources. Though I'm unwilling to consider them as essentials for development, they certainty are an added bonus if integrated appropriately.

Neil provides information from everything between AJAX search suggestions to video conversions. SO, take a look!