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'''[http://en.childrenslibrary.org/index.shtml The International Children's Digital Library]''' (ICDL) is a free online library of digitized children's books in many [[languages]] from various countries. Designed specifically for use by children ages 3 to 13, the ICDL is a housed by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation. It provides free access to high-quality digital books from around the world. Browse by age, genre, book length, character types, or even the color of a book's cover. | [[File:ICDL logo.gif|left]]'''[http://en.childrenslibrary.org/index.shtml The International Children's Digital Library]''' (ICDL) is a free online library of digitized children's books in many [[languages]] from various countries. Designed specifically for use by children ages 3 to 13, the ICDL is a housed by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation. It provides free access to high-quality digital books from around the world. Browse by age, genre, book length, character types, or even the color of a book's cover. | ||
The ICDL is a rich resource which can be used in a wide range of situations by children, parents, teachers, librarians and others from all walks of life. Children can expand upon the stories to create games; parents can extract themes to help explain important lessons; teachers can utilize the multicultural nature of the collection to teach languages; librarians can enrich community outreach programs with tales from around the world and; of course, anyone can just open a book to read for pleasure. | The ICDL is a rich resource which can be used in a wide range of situations by children, parents, teachers, librarians and others from all walks of life. Children can expand upon the stories to create games; parents can extract themes to help explain important lessons; teachers can utilize the multicultural nature of the collection to teach languages; librarians can enrich community outreach programs with tales from around the world and; of course, anyone can just open a book to read for pleasure. | ||
==Suggested Projects == | ==Suggested Projects == | ||
* Turn Appropedia [[projects]] into engaging children's books and openly publish at ICDL to spread the wealth of knowledge on [[appropriate technology]] to those all over the world. | * Turn Appropedia [[projects]] into engaging children's books and openly publish at ICDL to spread the wealth of knowledge on [[appropriate technology]] to those all over the world. (note: does not currently accept born digital books --so you will need to get your book published - and then have it accepted by ICDL). | ||
[[Category: Education]] | [[Category: Education]] | ||
[[Category: Organizations]] | [[Category: Organizations]] | ||
Revision as of 11:55, 18 June 2010
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a free online library of digitized children's books in many languages from various countries. Designed specifically for use by children ages 3 to 13, the ICDL is a housed by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation. It provides free access to high-quality digital books from around the world. Browse by age, genre, book length, character types, or even the color of a book's cover.
The ICDL is a rich resource which can be used in a wide range of situations by children, parents, teachers, librarians and others from all walks of life. Children can expand upon the stories to create games; parents can extract themes to help explain important lessons; teachers can utilize the multicultural nature of the collection to teach languages; librarians can enrich community outreach programs with tales from around the world and; of course, anyone can just open a book to read for pleasure.
Suggested Projects
- Turn Appropedia projects into engaging children's books and openly publish at ICDL to spread the wealth of knowledge on appropriate technology to those all over the world. (note: does not currently accept born digital books --so you will need to get your book published - and then have it accepted by ICDL).