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Technology continues to become of more and more importance in the classroom. But is it being used properly and to the best of its’ ability? Many would argue the answer is no. And one man is on a mission to change that – Salman Khan. Khan, along with his fellow brainiacs at the Khan Academy (and with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as Google), want to revolutionize the way technology is utilized, making the use of computers and videos to have a more positive and powerful impact. How? Continue reading »
Pierogies! A delicious and easy treat for the whole family.
If you’ve seen Google’s logo today, or the “Google Doodle” as it’s known, you probably noticed that most of the images comprising their Christmas greeting are of people and places around the world. A few, however, are culinary in nature. There are lovely illustrations of the Buche de Noel, the Chilean vineyards, chili peppers and pierogis.
I love Mexican food, so I’m no stranger to chili peppers, and who doesn’t love a nice Chilean wine? I’ve never had a Buche de Noel, but I have had a Friendly’s Jubilee Roll, so I’m calling that close enough. The one of these food items I’m best acquainted with, though, is pierogis. Not only did we eat them at every holiday meal when I was a kid, they’re the thing I found easiest to cook for my daughter when she was a toddler. They’re the perfect size for tiny baby hands to grasp, and they can be filled with lots of different stuffings. Continue reading »
Did you spend 250 hours on your holiday card? Google did.
Can you imagine a team of five people spending over 250 hours on a holiday card? Just think how many people you’d have to send that card to in order to justify such an effort, not that you’d ever pony up that kind of labor just to spread holiday cheer.
But Google would. And did. Today, the search engine unveiled its brand new doodle, a holiday card of sorts—one for the entire world to enjoy. All you have to do to receive yours is click on over. And if you do, you won’t be sorry.
Katherine Rosman of the Wall Street Journal reports that Michael Lopez is in charge of Google’s doodles and as such was the point person on the enterprising project. Rosman writes: “For Google, the goal is to burnish its brand image and engage the legions of people who conduct more than a billion searches a day, without offending any of them.” This is undoubtedly the reason why there are so many images, 17 in all, which depict scenes from around the world ranging from St. Basil’s cathedral to a canal in Venice. When you click on a particular image, it automatically conducts a correlating search. Continue reading »
What were you searching for in 2010?
Full disclosure: I am a sucker for a year end list. The year in pictures, the year in books, the year in movies, the year in candy bars, I’ll take them all and I’ll cry when I’m done.
Google’s video of the year in searches, Google Zeitgeist (after the jump) is no different. Only this time, as I was watching, I started thinking about how the major events of the year entered our life as a family and how they didn’t. I was struck by how much happens that doesn’t get talked about. Current events for kids and current events like the European debt crisis obviously aren’t the same thing, but still. Watching the video brought home how parenting often means editing and sometimes means recognizing how what’s not really all that important to everybody who doesn’t have kids. Case in point: Silly bandz. But then there are the events that our too big not to slip onto the table no matter what we do. The earthquake in Haiti; the floods in Pakistan; the oil spill in the Gulf; the Chilean Miners; the World Cup.
As part of their efforts to make surfing the web safer for children, an Internet provider in the U.K. has partnered with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to age-rate websites. As a result, everybody’s favorite search engine has been deemed unsuitable for kids under the age of 12. Continue reading »
As parents in the information age, we have lots of tools at our disposal when it comes to doing what’s best for our kids. Before they are even born, we surf baby name sites to find one that will ensure they stand out but not too far out. We go online to research the best cribs and car seats before we choose one. And we are alerted instantly when they are recalled. We read what the experts and other parents think about the educational value of the books, toys and games we are considering purchasing for our kids.
Going online for parenting information has become so automatic that it’s no surprise that the first thing many of us do when our child shows symptoms of an illness is to turn to Dr. Google. But as Jennifer Gruden writes in an article titled “Anxiety in the Age of Google,” that is where information and insanity often meet. Continue reading »
When Carly Hornbuckle’s 4-year-old daughter began waking up listless and sick to her stomach last year, the 25-year-old mother immediately made an appointment to see a doctor. But when that doctor dismissed little Bella’s symptoms as nothing more than a bad case of sibling rivalry, Hornbuckle took matters into her own hands. Continue reading »
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