Archive for November, 2007
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Friday, November 30th, 2007Attention parents: There’s a new “slanguage” out there, used for text and SMS messaging, featuring initialisms and crazy capital letter combinations that leave many of us over 25 scratching our heads. These abbreviations are now so mainstream that the Oxford English Dictionary began including them in its 2001 edition. Here are 10 (plus one) that put a […]
Texting Maven
Thursday, November 29th, 2007To honor this blog’s name—a texting phrase used by kids to indicate they’re being watched—I thought I’d give a doff of the digital hat to the winner of the 2007 National Texting Competition, held in April. Looks like texting isn’t a skill acquired with age: 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar won the crown (that’s just an idiom, […]
E-Harmony?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007An account of the Hans Reiser trial yesterday caught my attention with the headline, “Couple fought over violent video games.” This got me to thinking about what happens when parents disagree about screen issues. The Reiser case is extreme — he played very violent video games with his then-six-year-old, considering it an education of sorts. […]
Cell phone’s cool quotient
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Could high school students consider good grades to be as cool as the latest sneaker brand? Some educators in New York City are hoping to elevate scholastic achievement to a hot brand, using a special school-issued cell phone as a status symbol. Esquire covers the story in its December issue. I love the idea because it hooks into what’s driving kids these […]
Kindle
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Wow! My mom and I have just told my Dad about the new Amazon Kindle. It holds up to 200 books that download for $9.99 each. It holds its own dictionary. Are you the type of person like me who reads more than one book at a time? Because when you turn the Kindle off, it […]
The Media is here!!!
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Yes, I have started to knit. I am making a red scarf. I am trying to finish it by Monday. I have done 14in so I am a fourth of the way there! I did 10 in yesterday and it took me 6 and a half hours. My hands hurt so much. I have small […]
The perils of Sesame Street
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007If you watched Sesame Street as a child and remain unscathed, you can breathe a sigh of relief. I mention this because a recently released DVD of the first episodes of the ground-breaking PBS show for preschoolers comes with this warning: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool […]
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