Resources for Children
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[edit] Activities
[edit] Libraries
- Both the Urbana Free Library and the Champaign Public Library have good children's sections.
[edit] Schools
- In Champaign, you pick the school which you wish to have your child attend. In Urbana, children attend the school assigned to their neighborhood.
[edit] Daycare
- If you have children, check out the Child Care Resource Center to get a list of Daycares. http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/%7ECCRSCare/
- The Community Daycare Center is an excellent place to take your child.
- It is one of the few places that has hours which accomodate a student's schedule: they are open Monday through Saturday, and their weekday hours are from approximately 7:30 am to 11:00 pm. You can leave your child there for up to a 12 hr block of time during that time period.
- It is located on the corner of Bradley St. and Neil St., which is right on the Red bus route and the Blue bus route during the day, and on the Yellow bus route in the evening.
- My (Ingbert Floyd's) son has gone there, and I highly recommend the place. You can email me with any questions you might have: ifloyd2@uiuc.edu
[edit] Housing
- Check out the Housing page for more information.
- The most child friendly place to live in Urbana Champaign that I am aware of is Orchard Downs Graduate Housing. It is a wonderful place with affordable apartments, 5 or more playgrounds, and has a large population of families with kids of all ages (and a large population of International Students as well).
[edit] Online Resources
[edit] Allison Druin
Allison Druin was the Windsor Lecturer in Spring of 2005. She does research on children's use of information, and designs software interfaces to meet their needs.
One of her projects has created a digital library for kids (be sure to check out the spiral display of the digitized books):
Another project created a storytelling software for children to use. When she lectured here, she used it in her presentation, and many people saw it as clearly superior to Powerpoint, so it has other uses as well:
Her research method is Participatory Design/Cooperative Design with children as paid co-designers. This emphasis on regarding kids as people who can be learned from and have valuable contributions to the design process is extremely powerful, and is one of the reasons she is so successful with her research. More information about her can be found at:
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~allisond/
