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Five Tips for Taking Kids to the Maker Faire

May 17, 2013

The Maker Faire is insanely, incredibly awesome. The day has four main emotions: first, the awesomeness washes over you upon entering, as you see all of the colors, ideas, and nerdiness in its glory; second, the adrenaline hits as you moving to and fro the booths and demos you want to see; third is inspiration, [...]

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Maker Faire Weekend is Coming!

May 13, 2013

My kids are about to burst with excitement, as this coming weekend is one of their favorites of the year. The Maker Faire – the Greatest Show and Tell on Earth – will be at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds this weekend, and if you are planning to go, buy your tickets now. Discounted online [...]

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Cat Video Festival (Yes, It Does Exist)

March 27, 2013

My toddler thinks there is nothing better in this world than a cat video.  I’m not sure what the inventors of YouTube were thinking when they created their glorious video sharing site; but I doubt it was that the world needed hundreds of thousands of cat videos.  They were solving a problem they didn’t even [...]

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A Film Festival for the iPhone

March 19, 2013

My kids love to make movies using my iPhone.  I normally delete the videos after they’ve gone to bed… partially to free up space on the phone, but mainly becuase their “movies” are just videos of our everyday life.  Who really wants to watch a 5 minute video of me loading the dishwasher?  Besides, with [...]

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Marissa Mayer Moved Yahoo’s Cheese and Silicon Valley Freaks Out

February 25, 2013

In my very first high-tech job during the dot com boom of the late 90s and early 2000s, my manager bought us all the book Who Moved My Cheese? and made it required reading for the team. The book, in essence, is how the workforce can get complacent when we get comfortable.  We must acknowledge [...]

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Open Make Finally Comes South to The Tech

February 15, 2013

The good thing, maybe the only good thing, about the Exploratorium’s temporary closure is that the monthly Open Make events are moving around the bay. This month, instead of what would have been a trek to San Francisco, Open Make is in San Jose! The Tech Museum is hosting Open Make: Flight tomorrow from 10 [...]

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Daring Girls to be Digital

January 31, 2013

When I was in the sixth grade, I remember my teacher telling me that I was smart enough in math and science that I could be an engineer when I grew up.  I still remember thinking that it was so weird that my teacher wanted me to be an engineer on a train.  You see, [...]

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Sifteo Cubes Create a New Way to Play

August 30, 2012

I’ve written a half-dozen times before that our family is slow to adopt technology for our children.  I prefer that my children play with real people than virtual ones.  My kids don’t have email addresses.  The running joke in our house is that they won’t get cell phones until they can afford the monthly bill.  The [...]

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Volunteer Sign-Ups Go High-Tech

August 22, 2012

I have been a faithful classroom volunteer since my son was in preschool.  I’ve always loved volunteering in the class.  Whether it was cutting out shapes for a preschool art project or running the Kindergarten class store, I’ve always made sure to clear my work calendar to allow for an hour or two of weekly [...]

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My Toddler Is Going High-Tech

August 14, 2012

As family living in the center of the high-tech universe, we are a fairly non-technical family.  We don’t own a family computer.  My first smart-phone purchase wasn’t until the release of the iPhone 4.    My sons don’t play on the internet.  There isn’t Club Penguin or whatever it’s called. My third grader has already asked [...]

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