Photo courtesy of e3000 During a career that has spanned just over ten years of teaching, I’ve had some real lows and incredible highs in and out of the classroom. My first year was filled with lows, beginning with a child falling off the play structure and fracturing his arm on the first day of…
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Chronic Multitasker Ponders Effectiveness vs. Hinderance to Success
Two weeks after watching the culmination of months of research that became the film called Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, I’m still thinking about some of the issues explored on the program such as the implications of spending 32 hours a week in front of television and computer screens. Digital Nation begins at…
Tweeting and Facebooking to Survive the DC Blizzard
This morning I woke up and did what any good blogger would do would do- did a little happy dance that our power stayed on through the night and then started using social media to Tweet, blog, and update my friends on Facebook about the DC area blizzard. The conversation that I had with friends…
The Challenge of Limiting Computer Use
Last week The Kaiser Family Foundation published a study that revealed daily media use among children and teens ages 8-18 dramatically increased from 6 hours and 20 minutes to 7 hours and 38 minutes over the past five years. Findings state that most kids have no limits about the length of time they can spend…
Are Thank You Notes Dead?
Now that the presents are unwrapped and I’ve cleaned up the wreckage that goes along with Christmas, it is time to sit down for the post-holiday tradition of writing thank you notes. Even though I love technology, I am a traditionalist when it comes to thank yous. I loved grabbing a pen that feels heavy…
Dreaming of a Snow Day While Musing About Technology
Here in DC we have had record snowfall that the Captain Computer and Little Miss Techie have been dreaming of. If you are a fellow East Coaster being slammed by this monster storm and are inside waiting it our or between shoveling, I invite you to click on over to read my recent posts on…
LeapFrog Community: Teaching Charity This Holiday Season
In the very petite body of my almost 6 year old girl is the biggest heart in the world. Last year as we were talking about Christmas and making a list for Santa she told me that she “would be happy with anything he brought her.” This year I expected half a year of kindergarten…
Announcing LeapFrog The Gift of Giving Recipient!
Thank you to everyone who voted for the four nominees for LeapFrog’s The Gift of Giving! I could have never anticipated that this effort would have attracted so much attention or that 630 votes would have been cast for all of our nominees. It was a close contest with votes coming in up to the…
Vote to Give LeapFrog Toys to Kids in Need!
Since last week’s call for help, I received some great ideas about recipients for LeapFrog’s The Gift of Giving. It is time to vote and I need your help! As I mentioned in my original post, I want you to decide who should receive this generous donation of LeapFrog toys. Here’s some information about each…
Help Give the Gift of LeapFrog to Those in Need
As many of you know, I am a big fan of LeapFrog. My love of their educational products began with the LeapPad. Well before I had kids, I realized the educational value of an interactive book and fell in love. It has always been my dream to some day work for LeapFrog. As many of…
