This five-part, 96-page curriculum contains great ideas for promoting and using visual art in an early childhood classroom. Thirty pages are devoted to suggested activities related to (1) Art (e.g, Collage, Lines, Sculpture), (2) People and What They Do (e.g., Cultures, Food, Transportation), and (3) Nature and Living Things (e.g., animals, flowers, weather).

The curriculum comes with a FREE CD-ROM for the Macintosh (revised 2001) containing an interactive adventure to an art museum. The museum has a gallery of art created by adults and another of art created by preschool and elementary school children. The Galleries include descriptions, comments, and sometimes videos about each work of art. A Studio option allows children participate in simulated drawing experiences. "ArtSpace" can be used with the mouse, a touch screen, or a switch for easy access by children with disabilities.

This innovative, yet practical guide for helping teachers implement a comprehensive expressive arts curriculum in their classrooms includes tips for arranging the environment, family involvement ideas, adaptations, and documentation.

This curriculum, containing activities designed for children ages 3-6, focuses on math, science, and social studies and includes integrated activities to use with over 30 software titles. It addresses learning standards established by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, National Research Council, and National Council for Social Studies; provides ideas for adapting activities for children with disabilities; contains suggestions and activities for family involvement; and includes resources for adaptive equipment, software, and supplies.

Combine an emergent literacy approach with successful assistive technology experiences and the result is eMERGing Literacy and Technology: Working Together. Loaded with curriculum activities and off-computer ideas, this guide is a welcome addition to any early childhood program. Included are activities for commercial software according to five interactivity levels, as well as many ways to customize activities through authoring software. Content also includes adaptations with alternate input devices and specialized set-ups, and information on designing the environment, family involvement, teaching strategies, and children's learning styles.

Use the LitTECH Toolkit to provide staff development training on supporting children's emergent literacy development. In one package your professional development trainers receive all the resources they need to train on this important topic.

The Curriculum Resource Guide and CD contain training agendas and handouts to support the training content. Materials included in the ToolKit are the eMERGing Literacy and Technology: Working Together curriculum guide and five DVDs to use during training: LitTECH Interactive Presents: The Beginning of Literacy; Your Preschool Classroom Computer Center: How Does It Measure Up?; A Guide to Selecting Software for Young Children; Supporting the Early Childhood Curriculum with Technology; and Tools of the Trade: Early Childhood Software.

Note: Four of the DVDs are available for purchase separately in VHS format. Descriptions of those products are included in the Video Products section of this webpage. The fifth DVD, LitTECH Interactive Presents: The Beginning of Literacy, provides an overview linking technology to the concepts of emergent literacy. While providing information about the concepts of print to stages of writing, the DVD showcases children and teachers using technology as part of their classroom literacy activities.