A presentation on how to use iPads, document projectors in storytime while still embracing the old standards like boxes, sticks and rocks.

1. The new and old of preschool storytime
Youth Services Staff
Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library

2. Molly Sadler - The Geek
 Love my gadgets
 Always looking for the next thing
 Has a constant Twitter and FB feed
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3. • Knows a song for just about every subject off
the top of her head
• Is more comfortable with a pen and paper
than a computer
• Pulls from a seemingly never-ending font of
experience with preschoolers

4. • Never know where she’s going to go
• Willing to try anything once
• Doesn’t own an iPad but have seen her
coveting mine

5.  Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America –
Common Sense Media
 53% of all 2-4 year olds have used a computer with 12%
using them daily
 10% of 0-1 year olds have used a mobile device
 47% of 0-1 year olds watch TV or DVDs daily with an
average of 53 minutes on screen time but only 23 minutes
of time being read to
 App Gap -38%of lower-income parents have never heard
of an “app” before, compared to just 3% of higher-income
parents
http://www.commonsense.com/educatorblog/2011/11/08/ze
ro-to-eight-childrens-media-use-in-america/
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6.  Any book you want at your fingertips
 Ever expanding resources
 Cheaper and less storage than a storytime
shelf
 Portable
 More inclusive
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7.  Cheap
 Easy
 Use of imagination
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10. Benefits: Challenges:
 Encourages
creativity and  Finding and
imagination storing boxes
 Fun  Distraction
 Different
 Cheap  Liability

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12. Benefits: Challenges:
 Just plain cool  Screen size
 Interactive  Be careful with
 Versatile
technology lest it
replace us
 Green
 Can provide a totally
 Modeling to
different storytime
Gen X and Y experience
 Costly
 Overwhelming
 Technology issues

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15.  Elmo Projector – about $600
Benefits: Challenges:
 Frees up your  Glare and size
hands and body  Projector in the
 Everyone can see – way
even small books  Technology issues
 Need weight for
pages
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17. -Sitting in My Box by Dee Lillegard -The Box by Kevin O’Malley
Puffin, 1992 Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1993
-Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis -Big Brown Box by Marisabina Russo
HarperCollins, 2007 Greenwillow, 2000
-The Gunniwolf as retold by Wilhelmina -What Can You Do with a Box by Ruth Radlauer
Harper and illustrated by William Wiesner Children’s Press, 1973
Dutton, 1967 -A Box Can Be Many Things by Dana Meachen Rau
-Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Children’s Press, 1997
Viking, 1963 -Two Sticks by Orel Protopopescu
-Thank You Bear by Greg Foley Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Viking, 2007 -Elizabetti’s Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
-Not a Box by Antoinette Portis Lee and Low, 1998
HarperCollins, 2006
-Boxes! Boxes! by Leonard Everett Fisher
Viking, 1984
-Wrapping Paper Romp byPatricia Hubbell
HarperFestival, 1998
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18.  Fun Felt by QuriosApps, $.99
 Tappy Tunes by UtiliTouch, Inc, $1.99
 Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by
Oceanhouse Media, $2.99
 What Was I Scared Of… by Oceanhouse
Media, $1.99
 Little Red Hen by Kidztory, $.99
 Crazy Face by Ezone.com, Free
 Drum Set by Ronald Bell, Free
 Art Studio by Lucky Clan, Free
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19.  “An Adventure in Space” by Greg and Steve
from On The Move, 1983
 “Roller Coaster”, “Woodpecker”, “Tap Your
Sticks” by Hap Palmer from Rhythms on
Parade, 1995
 “Sally the Swinging Snake”, “On the Count of
Five”, “Dancing with a Stick” by Hap Palmer
from Sally the Swinging Snake, 1987
 “The Circle”, “Circle Game” by Hap Palmer
from Getting to Know Myself, 1972
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20. http://www.perrypubliclibrary.org/Kids/Progra
ms/storytime_themes.htm
http://www.preschooleducation.com/topic.sht
ml
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21. Rhythm Sticks
 Fat Brain Toys $2.95 each
http://www.fatbraintoys.com/toy_companies/hohner/rhythm_sticks.cfm?source=sh
opzilla&utm_source=shopzilla&utm_medium=cse&utm_campaign=cse_May
 Oriental Trading Company 5 pairs for $10.00
http://www.orientaltrading.com/rhythm-sticks-a2-64_120-12-
1.fltr?Ntt=rhythm+sticks
 The Learning Bug 12 pairs for $29.00
http://www.azlearningbug.com/catalog/index.php?p=400100342381&dept=u&dc=&s
ub=&wl=
Bells:
 Amazon $1.99 each
http://www.amazon.com/Trophy-3073-4-Bell-
Wristlet/dp/B0002F704W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321400689&sr=8-2
 The Learning Bug $2.90 each
http://www.azlearningbug.com/catalog/index.php?p=400100253380&dept=u&dc=&sub=
&wl=
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22. Materials:
 Plastic lids* (of the same size) from laundry soap bottles,
aerosol spray cans…
 * clear ones are nice to show what is inside the shaker
 ¾ to 1’ wide electrical tape
 Beans, rice, colorful beads… (consider items that would
not be a choking hazard if the shaker should break open)
Instructions:
 Fill one of the lids with your item of choice, place the
second lid on top (another set of hands helps at this point)
 Attach the two lids with the electric tape and you are
done!
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23.  Materials:
 ¼” x 10” Cable Wire Ties (Home Depot 6₵ each)
 5/16” Clear Vinyl Tubing (Home Depot 20’ for $4.18)
 Jingle Bells (1/2” about 4₵ each)
 Instructions:
 Cut two 3 1/2” pieces and two 1” pieces of tubing for each
shaker.
 Thread one 3 1/2” piece onto tubing and then add a bell,
thread one 1” piece of tubing on and then add another
bell, thread the next 1” piece of tubing on followed by the
last bell. End with the last piece of 3 1/2” tubing. Pull cable
wire through “lock system” on the other end and cut off
extra cable as closely to the locking piece as possible
(check for rough edges).
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24. Molly Sadler
msadler@flagstaffaz.gov
Marcia Hansen
mhansen@flagstaffaz.gov
Suzanne Martin
smartin@flagstaffaz.gov
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