Do you have any kids that can doodle? Check this out: Doodle 4 Google You can win scholarship money and grant money for your school in this contest where you draw one of the logos for Google’s Home page. We’ll see it on May 20th of this year.
We received this email today from AFA, and I would like to extend the invitation to participate to any of my readers. I don’t want to go into detail here, but I would love to give you some links to do your own research: AFA: Time to defund Planned Parenthood Read more…
I remember going through the ride at Epcot in Disney Land and seeing the kids talking on video chats across the world. Now, it is no big deal. I have Skype on my laptop, and we chat periodically with the video. We were just chatting with my sister in Chicago Read more…
A little while ago, we tried to spruce up our dining room. I found this help article describing how you can give your wall a parchment look. It didn’t quite work for us — I think we tried to improvise a little too much! What do you think? Check out Read more…
Kent has been doing great at learning his letters. One of the cool tools that we have found is to use letters that you can color. Kent loves his new scissors that he got for Christmas so he cuts the letters out when he finishes coloring them. Then, we arrange the letters Read more…
In going through my email, I found this link to Awana’s website. I enjoy both the Awana clubs and VeggieTales. We have watched most of VeggieTales movies, and I found Phil Vischer’s book Me, Myself, and Bob very interesting, which led me to wonder what Jelly Telly was all about. Read more…
I ran across this link the other day: Open Hymnal Project If you need a song, try looking here! What I think would be cool is to use this with software like Lyricue or something like that, but that research is for another day.
On Veteran’s Day, this song came on the radio on the way to work. I did a quick Google Search and I found it here. Or, you can just listen to it here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QklqKkegbfA] I did a little poking around on the author’s web site, and it looked pretty interesting. Read more…
While reading The AppsLab, I came across this article: The Wall Street Journal: Does the Internet Make You Smarter? I agree with Jake in that this was an interesting article. One of the other patterns that I saw in Clay Shirky’s examples is that the technology breaks monopolies. The printing Read more…
On Moody Radio this week, they did an interview about iMom’s Operation Summer. I browsed their site quickly, and it looked like it had a lot of great resources. We signed up for the Operation Summer emails so we’ll see how it is.