Scratch is a freeware program that allows you to create interactive games or animation. the Spawn and I fired it up for the first time last night and I am floored at how easy it was to use and the Spawn absolutely loves making his own cartoons with it. Within the first 15 minutes of [...]
I learned how to touch-type in highschool and it was the easiest computer/technology credit I ever earned that was actually useful. The Spawn already started tying lessons using the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing for Kids program at his old school. He said he enjoyed that program and he would proudly report to me every day [...]
I bought the book Word Works: Making the Most of Microsoft Word from a Book Sale thinking it would be useful for the Spawn’s computer lessons. Although we use Open Office for our word processing, I figured the functions of the program were similar enough to it’s Microsoft counterpart to still be usable. The parts [...]
I wasn’t able to post this past weekend because, as most of the world knows, Typhoon Ondoy hit the Philippines. The worst tropical depression to hit the country this year, with more rainfall than Hurricane Katrina, and flooding all over the country. The Twitterverse has been abuzz with links to relief efforts, stories of the [...]
