MizzB is a mom to a 10 year-old, a working teacher, and a produced playwright. She teaches in a high poverty elementary in LA, where she tries to keep creatively and technologically afloat in the murky waters of educational bureaucracy and high-stakes testing. My 6th grader came home the first week of school desperate not…
Tech Savvy Daddy’s Inappropriate Use of Technology
Tech Savvy Daddy loves snarky gadget website Gizmodo because it has all the dirt on all the super cool up-and-coming gadgets and technological hilarity. As I blog, he’s often sitting behind me on his separate-but-equal computer in our office snickering at stuff on his screen or in awe of the amazing things he’s found on…
Tech Savvy Guest Karen Waters Shares the Amazing Capabilities of Google
Today’s Tech Savvy guest is Karen Waters. Karen is a technical project manager who is passionate about work/life balance. With three kids, a husband, and a full-time job, her life demands technology to maintain equilibrium. She uses her technical skills to help promote efficiencies that allow her to flourish in her career while being the…
Tech Savvy Guest: Five Tips For Keeping Up With Technology by Dr. Robert Joseph
Today’s Tech Savvy guest is Dr. Robert Joseph. Robert is married with two boys and has degrees from MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. With over 25 years of developing state-of-the-art technology he established GluLIfe, a web development company and CyberNetKids, a company teaching kids how to build websites, do internet research and develop programs. Today…
Ironman Live Tech Savvy Mama Style- Part II
My brother is a triathlete. More specifically, he is an Ironman. He’s someone who routinely competes in a grueling competition consisting of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and ends with a 26.2 mile marathon in the course of a day. Today I’ll be watching my brother compete in the 30th Ironman World…
Tech Savvy Guest: Aniboom as Alternative to Computer Games by MizzB
MizzB is a mom to a 10 year-old, a working teacher, and a produced playwright. She teaches in a high poverty elementary in LA, where she tries to keep creatively and technologically afloat in the murky waters of educational bureaucracy and high-stakes testing. There’s no avoiding it. Chances are, if you have a kid older…
Tech Savvy Guest: Karen Waters Explains How Tumblebooks Furthers a Love of Reading
Today’s Tech Savvy guest is Karen Waters. Karen is a technical project manager who is passionate about work/life balance. With three kids, a husband, and a full-time job, her life demands technology to maintain equilibrium. She uses her technical skills to help promote efficiencies that allow her to flourish in her career while being the…
Tech Savvy Mama’s Bloggy Vacation
It has come to my attention that I need a bloggy vacation. Between going back to work part time, writing for Being Savvy Washington DC 5 days a week, and penning Tech Savvy Mama posts along with ones for Props and Pans and DC Metro Moms, I’m beat! I’m spending way too much time on…
Steve Jobs’ Mini Marketing Team
Remember how last week I said my children would be joining Monica’s as pushers of Apple products when I awarded her the Perfect Post Award? Little did I know how soon. Saturday morning were sitting around the breakfast table, eating our French toast and discussing the things that needed to be gathered for our outing…
What I did this weekend…
Imbibed fabulous wine from Mad Housewife Cellars, laughed, and had an all around great time with fellow DC Metro Moms bloggers! Many of us hadn’t seen each other since this summer’s BlogHer or the Race (Sweat) for the Cure so it was a true reunion. It was so wonderful to see Why Mommy, Stimey, Linda…
