October is breast cancer awareness month. Did you know: One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime With the exception of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women It is estimated that 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women by the…
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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….
Website of the Week: Google Map of Swine Flu Instances in US
Some of the moms’ listservs I’m on are all abuzz about how to protect kids from swine flu but I’m not going to get into that here. Instead I thought I’d share this very interesting Google Map that details suspected cases, confirmed/probable cases, negative cases, and deaths with color coded pins in the US and…
Websites of the Week: Best Earth Day Websites for Kids
Image from NASA and the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) Did you know that when surveyed about the environment at home, in their communities, and around the world kids said: 48% of kids said that “global climate change” is the most important environmental issue facing the world today, followed by “energy resources” at 19%,…
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…
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…
Website of the Week: Support Public Education with DonorsChoose.org
As a teacher, it is a given that a certain percentage of my income will be donated back into my school for general supplies that aren’t provided by my school due to budget constraints each year. It doesn’t matter if you teach in what is perceived as a rich or poor school system. The fact…
Tragic News and Helping a Community Member
My good friend, Jessica, is one of my closest friends in the blogging world. Her amazing friend, Jillian, is an important member of our community who just suffered a horrible personal tragedy that has touched everyone deeply. I’m helping Jessica spread the word about Jillian and her son Demitry to see if Tech Savvy Mama…
Blogging and Racing for the Cure
If you were in the DC Metro Area this weekend you know it was hot. Really hot. And steamy too. But 13 DC Metro Mom bloggers sucked it up for a good cause and completed the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday. While I wasn’t a fan of the high temps and…
