Articles About 'college'
Pandigital’s Novel Is Both Novel and Easy on the Pocketbook
Pandigital, a company best known for creating wireless digital photo frames, took a novel step forward with the introduction of a $200 full-color e-book reader with multimedia capabilities and a Barnes & Noble affiliation. In addition to the unit’s e-reader functionality, you can store photos, music, and movies, and use the device as a photo […]
Posted: May 24th, 2010 under college, eReader, hardware, media, Your Digital Home.
Tags: Barnes and Noble, ebook, eReader, Pandigital Novel
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Why Google Needs a Student Version
Google needs to have a student version of its popular search software. It’s not because of pornography. It’s not because of meeting weirdos online. It’s simply a matter of being able to concentrate on things that kids need to concentrate on without any distractions. The classic example is Ethan Allen. Enter the term into Search and […]
Posted: February 26th, 2010 under boomers, college, education, internet safety, tech skills.
Tags: Goggle, Learning, Search Engines, Students
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Learn a Language Like Babies Do
I remember sitting in Dr. Salas’ Spanish class. The sum of the year? I can sing A Las Son Las Mananitas and have a great conversation with anyone who has a cold. (Ojala que se mejore pronto.) I’ve always felt a little sheepish about comparing a human teacher to a computer, but when it comes […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2009 under boomers, college, education, Your Digital Home.
Tags: foreign language, Rosetta Stone, social networking, spanish
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A Primer on the High Tech School
For those who haven’t been back-to-school in a while; things have changed.
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under college, education, tech skills.
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Amazon New Kindle DX: Saint of Newspapers and Textbook Publishers
The new $489 Kindle DX is the Big Kahuna of Amazon’s growing Kindle reader family. With its large 9.7-inch screen (the Kindle 2 available now only has a 6-inch screen), higher resolution (1200×824 instead of 600×300), and svelte, lightweight format, it’s meant to make heavily formatted and overly large documents readable. While it won’t be […]
Posted: May 7th, 2009 under college, hardware, media, Your Digital Home.
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Enough With the Princesses and Fairies: Disney Shows Boys Some Love
There are 18 million boys playing online but you wouldn’t know it based on the entertainment offered by the big toy companies. Disney hopes to show boys some love by launching a website and cable TV channel that’s a departure from its more recent online worlds which have been populated by fairies and princesses.
Posted: February 16th, 2009 under college, creativity and play, Disney, media, TV.
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For College Kids and Their Parents
Whoever said, “parenting is done when the kids head off to college” obviously never lived with college-aged kids. They call to give you the gory details of their latest breakdown/calamity/bad day… whatever. You’ll spend a week fretting about it and they’ll forget it ever happened.
Posted: August 26th, 2007 under college, education, Your Digital Kids.
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What’s Worse Than a Facebook Kid? A Nosy Facebook Parent
Now that we’ve all been invited to join Facebook and it’s no longer limited to students, parents are coming out of the closet and using Facebook openly as a tool in their parenting arsenal. They are looking at their kids’ friends, potential roommates, and even entire college classes in order to pre-screen elements those they […]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 under college, social networking, Your Digital Kids.
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College Grads Can Use the Web to Market Themselves
It’s a competitive world out there and millions of graduates are about to be pounding the pavement trying to get a toe-hold in the working world. I’ve been thinking about how the technology they love so much can help them differentiate themselves from the masses. Check out my Yahoo! column where I show how blogs, […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 under college, social networking, Uncategorized.
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Keeping Safe on the College Campus
In light of the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech, the safety and well being of their college students is first and foremost on many parents’ minds. And it’s more than just campus lock-downs and security. It’s a question of mental balance and well being. Here are a few tips excerpted from my most recent book, […]
Posted: May 2nd, 2007 under college, health and safety.
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