This document discusses various educational media resources for children, including movies, software, and apps. It describes several review sites that teachers and librarians can use to evaluate and select age-appropriate educational media, such as NICEM for educational media reviews, Common Sense Media and Kids in Mind for movie reviews, SuperKids and CNET for software reviews, and Fun Educational Apps for reviewing educational apps. The goal is to provide curated, high-quality media options that encourage learning.

1. By: Stephanie Clavey

2. What is educational media for
children?
 These are non print materials that are
selected by librarians and teachers that
provide educational benefit to the
students
 These materials include:
 movies, computer software, educational
applications and multimedia (web resources
and video games)

3. Educational Media
 Teachers and librarians choose
materials not only for their educational
benefit but also for the quality and
variations of types of materials
 Media huge in this day and age and lots
of children are constantly using
technology everywhere and anywhere
 By having these educational outlets we
can encourage learning even more

4. General Selection Tools
 N.I.C.E.M.
 School Library Journal

5. NICEM
 NICEM-National informational center for
educational media and are committed to
educational media improving learning
 The audiovisual database contains over
440,000 bibliographic records,
representing 640,000 items of nonprint
materials
 Paid subscription

7. School Library Journal
 School Library Journal, is the leading
print magazine and now with SLJ.com
serves librarians who work with the
youth in school and public libraries.
 Gives librarians up-to-date information
 Integrate the library into the school
curriculum, technology, reading,
information literacy
 High quality collection

9. Movies

10. Kids in Mind
 Purpose: to provide parents and other
adults with complete information about a
film's content so that they can decide,
based on their own value system,
whether they should watch a movie with
or without their kids.
 3 objective ratings
 Sex/nudity
 Violence/gore
 profanity

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 0-10 rating scale and describe in detail
as to why it has that number rating
 Good for educators and librarians who
would like to show or recommend
movies
 Search by title, browse by alphabet
letter and a list by rating

13. Common Sense Media
 Not for profit organization
 Provide age based reviews for media
content on how appropriate it is for the
age and also the learning potential
 4 different ratings in the reviews
 On-age appropriate
 Pause-some content may not be suitable
 Off-not age appropriate
 Not for kids-content is not for children of any
age

15. Software

16. SuperKids
 A popular site to use when trying to sort
out/through recourses
 Started early on in 1996 online
 The software is rated from a 1-5 on
 Kid friendly/appeal
 Price value
 Product support
 Great starting point

18. CNET
 A well known commercial site for
technology reviews
 Touches upon all areas of technology
and provides many reviews for
educational software
 CNET uses lab based testing, hands on
use, and user opinions to provide
trusted and unbiased reviews to show
product quality features and value

20. Educational Apps

21. Fun Educational Apps
 This site provides the best apps for kids
for iPad, iPhone, iPod and tablets
 Offers a new way for kids to develop
and learn with these fun tools
 Goal is to provide reviews for the top
best and new apps that are out there

22. Fun Educational Apps
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 General browse, top picks
 Categories by age, subject
 Free giveaway apps as well
 Provide the prices which is important

24. iTunes
 Another way to purchase apps
 Each app has a description and price
 With having an iTunes account it makes
it so much easier to download and
manage the apps
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25. End of Presentation
 I hope you enjoyed my presentation and
learned a lot and will use these review
sites in the future.
 Thank you!