How many times has this happened to you? You get to a wedding or little league game only to find that your digital camera memory card is full. You then spend the next 10 minutes making choices on which photos to delete. Or this: You sync your SD memory card at home and forget the card in the reader. The next time you take your camera out you realize how worthless a digital … [Read more...] about Now this is cool – Eye-Fi wireless memory card ends cables to your digital camera
Archives for February 2008
Guide for Dads: Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 2
Teachers in a wide range of subject areas at secondary schools, colleges, and universities are discovering what their colleagues in the teaching of literature have long known about the power of reading aloud to capture their students’ attention and to stimulate their thirst for learning. For instance, Professor Robert Coles has used stories to teach ethics to students at the … [Read more...] about Guide for Dads: Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 2
Guide for Dads: Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 1
Not everyone stops reading to children after they have learned to read for themselves. We know several secondary school teachers who regularly read aloud to students. One of them, Jimmy Leong, not only reads to his own classes, he has also read aloud to the whole school at assemblies and after the morning flag raising ceremony. Jimmy Leong teaches English and … [Read more...] about Guide for Dads: Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 1
If You’re Tired and Grumpy, It Might Not be the Kids…It Might be Your Testosterone
If you’re over 40, as a lot of parents are, you run the risk of decreasing levels of testosterone. An article in the Wall Street Journal recaps the controversy around testosterone replacement therapy for older men, especially with the negative associations with testosterone and sex. The WSJ article points out: There are even more unknowns about the risks and benefits of … [Read more...] about If You’re Tired and Grumpy, It Might Not be the Kids…It Might be Your Testosterone
Guide for Dads: Reading Aloud to Older Kids
Many adults, including teachers, stop reading to children after lower elementary school, sometimes even earlier. A common belief seems to be that reading aloud is the predecessor to silent reading and that once children begin to read silently, we should stop reading aloud to them. This is most unfortunate. Everyone – we adults included – enjoys being read to. However, … [Read more...] about Guide for Dads: Reading Aloud to Older Kids