Like the popular Hulu, is a new site that offers full movies and entire TV episodes from the convenience and comfort of your computer. Fancast debuted in January 2008 and now has more than 10,000 hours of online video programming including more than 60,000 videos and over 13,000 full-length shows with more are being added…
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Websites of the Week: American Cancer Society Blogger Advisory Council
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…
New Leapfrog Community & Tag Book Giveaway!
Are you a fan of Leapfrog’s products like we are? Then you might want to check out their amazing new community site that features blogs and forums with product reviews coming soon. I’m part of the Leapfrog community and blog as part of the Leapfrog Teacher TAGvocates. My newest post is all about Traveling with…
PBS Parents Helps Parents Cope With Back to School Anxiety
Little Miss Techie will head off to kindergarten in just 13 days. I’m waiting for the anxiety, nervousness, and apprehension to set in but so far she seems fine. We’ve bought our school supplies, packed our school box, and have our backpack ready to go. School could start tomorrow and I swear she would skip…
Websites of the Week: Hide the Cheese & Andrea’s Recipes
What do I do when I’m not in front of the computer? I’ve always loved to cook but recently I’ve developed a love of gardening, especially tending to our home garden. These days happiness is having a fridge full of food from our garden supplemented by our local farmers’ markets. Last year we were constantly…
Website of the Week: 1800Flowers.com (with giveaway!)
Do you take time to yourself to destress and recharge? I know I don’t! While I’m off at BlogHer networking and mingling, I’m also looking forward to relaxing and recharging at the Social Luxe Lounge and Blogalicious’ Lush party among many others. For those who aren’t joining me at BlogHer this year, 1800Flowers.com has offered…
Website of the Week: Zazzle.com for Dazzling Customizable Gifts
Was your Father’s Day gift a hit or a big disappointment? Here it was a hit. I scored two Beastie Boys tickets (unlike those elusive White House Easter Egg Roll tickets!) as an early Father’s Day gift for Tech Savvy Daddy and today Little Miss Techie and Captain Computer pulled out all the stops for…
T-Mobile Mom to Mom Quiz Redefines Parenting Styles
What kind of parent are you? Thanks to T-Mobile’s Mom to Mom quiz, parenting types have been redefined. Gone are the 4 parent types I learned about in my college psychology classes well before the thought of having my own kids crossed my mind. Most of the terms (indulgent, authoritarian, authoritative, and uninvolved) with their…
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….
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…
