Tricky Staples! Last month I wrote about recycling ink cartridges and featured Staples since they give you a $3 coupon good towards the purchase of new ink when you drop off your old cartridge. Well it seems that they have changed the rules of the game since February. Tonight we had an ink crisis and Tech…
Cyber Bully Update
The Palo Alto school system has notified the parents of 6-8 perpetrators in the recent cyber bullying incident. Read the story in the Palo Alto Online News or watch an interview with Jill Asher, founder of Silicon Valley Moms Blog, and contributor, Myrna, on Bay Area news channel KTVU. What are your thoughts about how the cyber bullying was…
The “I Love See’s Candies” Giveaway!
So maybe this giveaway has very little to do with technology but what do you do when your favorite candy company in the whole wide world gets in touch with you to offer a giveaway to your loyal readers? Turn the deliciousness down? Never! This winter I named the See’s Candies Custom Mix Creator a…
Website of the Week: SmartyCard, A New Online Educational Entertainment Site for Ages 6-12
Interactive multimedia sites are the new way to learn. Each week I seem to get more and more pitches about new subscription sites for parents to purchase to enhance their children’s learning. Since I pledged to always write about the best of the best, I’m really excited to tell you tell you about SmartyCard! SmartyCard…
Celebrate National Reading Month and Win a LeapFrog TAG Prize Pack!
While Read Across America Week is winding down, National Reading Month is just getting started! To celebrate reading, I’ve teamed up with LeapFrog and the National Education Association (NEA) to spread the word about the TAG Reading System’s 1 Million Reading Hours Pledge to celebrate National Reading Month. Throughout the month of March, LeapFrog wants…
Websites of the Week: Cyber Bullying Resources for Parents
Cyberbullying is the topic of the week both here, on DC Metro Moms, Silicon Valley Moms, on City Mama, and even among my colleagues at school. While I urged schools to include digital citizenship lessons in their curriculum in my post, a child’s education about cyberbulling and the proper use of social networking tools, like…
Cyber Bullies CityMama Style
While I scan the web to compile cyber bulling resources to share with you, the fabulous Stefania (aka CityMama) has a great post reminding cyber bullies that their moms are on Facebook. Yes, we know what you are doing and who you are targeting! Beware! Read Stefania’s post here. Thanks for reading Tech Savvy Mama through…
I Hate Spam! (a.k.a Do You Think I’m Stupid)
The e-mail I received today: From: Eva John Garang <evagarangx30@msn.com> Subject: Hello Dear Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 00:13:15 +0000 Hello Dear, Kindly accept my apology for sending mail to you.I believe you are a highly respected personality, I am writing this mail with tears, sadness and pains. I know it will come to you…
Cyber Bullying: Responsibility of Schools to Protect and Educate
No child should ever be bullied by their peers whether the bullying happens in person or online. Today I’m over on DC Metro Moms talking about how students are waging online attacks on each other through social networking groups like Facebook. These attacks are personal, hateful, and are leaving kids emotionally scarred just like any…
How To Recycle Printer Cartridges
Your printer is blinking that it is out of ink. You swap out the old cartridge for a new one but what do you do with the empty one? We’ve always recycled our laser and ink jet cartridges and I just figured that everyone knew what to do with their empties until a neighbor asked…
