Teachers often tell parents to practice what is being learned in school at home. Providing multiple opportunities to practice new learning helps children grasp key concepts more quickly. For example, a child reads a book that contains rhyming words using the –at pattern during their in class reading group and then goes to another part…
MobiStories Celebrates Children’s Book Week with Free Downloads
In honor of Children’s Book Week, MobiStories is giving away a free download of one of its popular virtual books each day. To get the code, follow @MobiMom on Twitter where she will post a link to the book of the day along with the download code. MobiStories are available in a variety of formats….
Win Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones by Playing Sony Digital Imaging Game
I love to enter contests with fabulous prizes and have been trying my skills at the three games that are part of the new Sony Digital Imaging campaign to try to win a new Sony DSLR camera or other prizes such as a Handycam or Cybershot. I have to admit that I covet the DSLR….
Congratulations to All Mother’s Day Gift Guide Winners!
Thanks to the many readers who entered the Mother’s Day Gift Guide, especially those of you who entered multiple times by blogging about my giveaways, Tweeting, and installing my fancy new button on your own sites. Here is the list of winners: Black Mountain Jewelry Tree of Life Charm- Dina Debi Derryberry’s Baby Banana CDs-…
PBS’ SuperWhy! Helps Super Kids Become Super Readers!
Who’s got the power, the power to read? Who answers the call for friends in need? Super Why! We are SuperWhy! super fans! Being an almost exclusive PBS household when it comes to children’s television, SuperWhy is a show that Little Miss Techie has been watching for the last couple of years. PBS has fabulous…
Free Virtual Train Book from MobiStories
MobiStories makes wonderful virtual books. Rick Toone, MobiStories’ creator, doesn’t think that their books “should replace a parent hugging a child and reading a book together” and designed their site to give kids another way to read. I think MobiStories is a great way to help motivate reluctant readers and provides kids with another way…
Websites of the Week: eBay’s Giving Works and WorldofGood
Tech Savvy Daddy is the eBay power user in our house and just in case he happens to read my site and sees this post, I wanted to hint that eBay has a couple of sites that benefit great causes. You know, just in case he hasn’t bought a gift in honor of Mother’s Day….
Mobile PacMan Like Classic Arcade Version But Better!
Win PacMan for your iPhone by entering below! Still without a Mother’s Day gift? For any mom with an iPhone, the iTunes store offers instant gratification for the music loving game playing mom on the go. Load mom’s device up with applications you know will make her life easier or find some cool games to…
Top Chef’s Spike Serves Great Stuff to DC Metro Moms at Good Stuff Eatery
If I didn’t blog about technology, I’d probably blog about food. Buying food, growing food, cooking food, eating food, and my favorite food blogs. Yes, I’m a total foodie and completely in love with watching Top Chef. So when the fabulous Devra and Sarah e-mailed me and the rest of my DC Metro Mom sisters…
Old School vs New School Technology
Since I was out too late partying it up with Top Chef’s Spike and my fellow DC Metro Mom bloggin’ mamas on a school night (more on that later!), I bring to you my new post over on LeapFrog Teacher Tagvocates where I’m thinking ahead to Little Miss Techie’s kindergarten experience and wishing that those…
