All about using ICT with young children in the early years

1. Some uses of ICT at
Homerton Early Years Centre
Cambridge
HP Reveal App, OU Our Story App, Yellow Door Pre-writing app, TTS Story Sequencer

2. HP Reveal App
The HP Reveal app
allows you to create an
“aura” so that if you
point your iPad at a
particular image, the app
will play a related video.
For example in this video,
pointing the iPad at the
image of number 3 in
Chinese brings up a
video of a child painting
the number 3 in Chinese.
Hover over
video
and click to
play

3. How to use HP Reveal App
1. Take a photo 2. Choose a video to associate with it 3. Position where
you want the video
to appear
4. Point your ipad
at the photo and
your video will
appear.

4. Possible uses of HP Reveal App
HP Reveal on the App Store HP Reveal on Google Play
 To bring children’s play experiences to life for parents
 To help children to reflect on events or their creations
 For children to create their own auras to show others the processes that lie behind …

5. Open University Our Story app
Download Our Story from the App Store
 This is a useful tool for creating stories with a class or an individual child
 Photos and videos are easily inserted and one can add text or voice recordings to each page
 The books can be viewed on your device or can be printed in a variety of formats
 Good for creating social stories – easy to take photos with a child and create a book immediately
 Also works well for celebrating shared events
 Probably needs to be used with an adult rather than independently
 Currently only available for iPads

6. Open University Our Story app - features

7. Using Open University Our Story app

8. Yellow Door Pre-writing app
www.yellow-door.net

9. Using real world resources alongside technology
Children choose a digital pebble to “throw” into the pond in the app and a fish will draw the
corresponding pattern with a line of bubbles.
Children can then follow that line with a finger or stylus. The app does not comment on how close the
drawn lines are to the original pattern and the pattern remains until another pebble is thrown into
the water.
Having physical versions of the pebbles creates a multi-sensory approach and is a very positive way
of connecting actions in the virtual world with the real world.

10. TTS Story Sequencer
https://www.tts-group.co.uk/recordable-talking-wall-panel/1001420.html
Hover over
video and click
play

11. Using the story sequencer …
Pre-record lines from a
story on the 6 panels
and ask children to sort
through pictures and
decide which picture to
put with which
recording.
Invite children to create
their own images and
make their own
recordings to go with a
story or to record an
event.
Add pictures to each
panel to show a story /
record an event and
invite children to record
some speech / sounds
to correspond with the
pictures.

12. Any questions?
 I hope this has been of some use and wish you all the best in your explorations of ICT in your
own settings.
 Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions:
 Mitali Peckham mpeckham@homerton.cambs.sch.uk