The ITLC Curriculum provides a guide for integrating content from interactive software into classroom activities.
Software based on favorite children s books serve as a good springboard for a variety of activities.
A favorite book among preschool children is Stellaluna, the story of a baby bat who gets temporarily separated from her mother. Besides reading the book as a group, the children can interact with the story on the computer. Since the words are highlighted top to bottom and left to right, children learn this concept of print as they attend to the program. Some of the off-computer activities include making paper bats to display in the room and making paper wings so the children can pretend to be bats. One ITLC classroom used HyperStudio to create a Baby Book about themselves.