by Lynette Owens | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
By Lynette T. Owens Earlier this week, Google was exposed for an issue with their 4th annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest. The contest is designed to encourage creativity among students in grades K-12 in the U.S… It asks them to create a drawing using the Google...
by Lynette Owens | Feb 4, 2011 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens It pleasantly surprised us a year ago when we launched our first user-generated video contest called What’s Your Story. The goal was to encourage young people to give advice to other young people about being safe online (to see last year’s...
by Lynette Owens | Jan 20, 2011 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas Convention Center this past January 6-9 and showcased everything from cars and robotic vacuum cleaners to holographic displays and advances in environmentally-friendly...
by Lynette Owens | Jan 6, 2011 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette Owens Santa was very good to my kids this Christmas. They were thrilled to discover that even though they both asked for a Nintendo Wii, they awoke on December 25 to find an Xbox Kinect waiting for them. It is quite a leap from Atari joysticks and using...
by Lynette Owens | Nov 8, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Today, our good friends at Connectsafely, together with the iKeepSafe Coalition, announced A Parents’ Guide to Facebook, a detailed resource that provides parents with step-by-step guidance on how to help their teens maintain their privacy on...