I Really Hope My Kids Don’t End Up In Therapy One Day
Mistakes. I make them all the time. In the parenting area especially. Example 1: My 7 year old daughter has to do a timed addition test every night. She usually gets to the end of the page with plenty of time left. The other night, for some reason she had four problems left when the [...]
I’m Hiding From My Cell Phone
You know technology has taken over your life when you have to hide from it. So, I’m trying to lose weight . . . again. Which means I’ve been getting up before work (translate: 4:30 am) to exercise. My alarm clock is set at 4:30, anyway. Then I’ve set my cell phone to 4:35 just [...]
Calling All Tweeters: Give Me a Reason to Stay
So I joined Twitter a month ago. And I’m already Twitter-tired. I tried to do it right. I followed Nina Badzin’s Twitter tips. I put people on lists. I followed other writers and ELL educators. I used good Twitter manners. I didn’t tweet twenty times an hour. Still, I have yet to feel like Twitter [...]
Hello. I’m Calling From My New iPhone.
Yes, I finally got a smart phone. Steven and I are Apple people, so we got iPhones (also, the 3G iPhones were on sale). While I am falling in love with my new toy, my love/hate relationship with technology keeps playing tug-of-war with my mind. While I love the instant gratification of a smart phone, [...]
Out With The Old
The Huffington Post recently had a slideshow about 20 items that have become obsolete in the past decade. Here is my take on a few of them: VCRs/VHS tapes – Okay, so I understand they’re not up to today’s technological standards, but I still have one VCR in the house. We mostly use it to [...]
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Night (Part 2)
So. I’ve made my point that I love books and dislike e-books. But I will admit that digital books have some advantages, especially in realm of education. Today’s students live in a technology-based world. Even my 5-year-old pretends to text on a calculator! Kids are used to having their phones, Ipods, and PSPs within reach [...]
Rage, Rage Against The Dying of the Night (Part 1)
“The age of books is ending.” So says Mark Franek in his recent article “Amazon e-book tipping point: Is the death of books upon us?” Franek muses over the fact that Amazon says it now sells more e-books than hardcovers. Keep reading, and you find out how much he is attached to books and how [...]
