Websites to Teach Young Students About Coumputers

http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/weekend-websites-28-websites-to-teach-tech-to-kindergarten-first-grade/

I follow @AskATechTeacher on twitter and every weekend she posts a link to her blog that has information about how to use technology in the classroom. The reason I like this blog is because she covers many different types of technology for many different grades. As I was browsing her blog this weekend I came across a post that I found very interesting and it was called 28 Websites to Teach Tech to Kindergarten-First Grade. I am currently volunteering in a kindergarten classroom and I found this post very interesting because my kindergartners are not learning about how to use the computer. I looked through many of these website and found the following very helpful to teach young children about technology.
Clicky’s Web World:
This website has activities that teach students how to stay safe on the computer. This is so important in this day and age because kids have so much access to the computer. I know that this topic is not taught very much in schools and I think this website does a good job of teaching it in a fun and interactive way.
Mouse Skills
This website is an interactive classroom that teaches students how to click, double click, and drag items around the screen. This is important for young student to know how to do because they become easily frustrated with using the mouse and if they are taught early then they will not have this problem.
Parts of the Computer
This website contains a game that has a picture of the parts of the computer and the word of that part. The students are to match the word to the picture, which teaches the students the parts of the computer, so they can properly use a computer by themselves.