Bonnie’s Qualifications:
-NAEYC Consulting Editor, contributing author , NAEYC Technology & Young Children Interest Forum member, and Apple Distinguished Educator.
-Over 20 years working directly with children; family child care, nonprofit and university programs. For six years, worked for UMaine CCIDS providing tech integration support for an Early Reading First early literacy project.
Morningtown* Consulting Mission:
To participate in developing research- based pilot projects and training options supporting the intentional integration and use of technology to provide young children and their families with new access to learning, ways to communicate and “show what they know.”
To discover and discuss emerging technology trends, share information and consider their use in supporting our work educating and caring for young children and publish lessons learned.
To investigate how technology can be used to help early educators save time, money, and more easily collaborate and communicate with others.
* When my children were young, I opened Morningtown Childcare, named after a favorite family lullaby Morningtown Ride by Malvina Reynolds. The interest in early education and the journey continues in new directions, with Morningtown Consulting.