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5 Top Tips for Your Child’s New Technology

It’s that time of year when our kids are bringing home new technology. Maybe you paid for it or maybe it’s provided by the school (from your school fees of course!) But it’s a tricky time, especially as they may know more than you about how to use it (you haven’t had a chance yet!) and they have had instructions from school about care and use too.

So my advice to parents is always to set some…

Improve your skills with Coach’s Eye iPad app - not just for sport, great for speaking or dance or drama...

So just wanted to share a quick app recommendation today. I saw a PE teacher using Coach’s Eye last year and it’s so fun I thought I’d post it here. It’s not just for sport though – I’ve since seen it used for dance, theatre and oral presentations. Great for helping your kids practice at home!

It’s a camera app that lets you review action in slowmo, shows two videos at the same time and annotate…

Positive selfies – why we all need them!

I saw something at a school I was presenting at the other week. It was so great I had to share it here – Positive Selfies!

They had posters everywhere about Posotive Selfies. Love it. A simple idea really. Instead of sexting or sharing photos of friends not look their best for fun or even cyber-bullying by posting photos of others with nasty comments, just take a photo of you, looking like you.…

Tech-Tip Friday – sharing a webpage

A quick tip today! Have you ever been looking at a website and thought ‘I wish my mum/dad/friend could see this – they’d love it!’

Well, there’s a quick and easy way to share a website with anyone that has an email!

Just find the URL and paste it into an email!

Ok, so first step – What is a URL?

A Uniform Resource Locatoris a unique address that links to a specific ‘place’ on the in Internet.…

Kids Version of Facebook

It’s nearly Easter! That means school holidays, bunnies and chocolate. What will your kids get up to during the break? Hopefully there will be some outdoor fun and maybe some playdates. Looking at the weather here in Melbourne, there’s going to need to be some indoor times too. Rain, for days on end!

Once they have exhausted all their playing, making and doing and you hear the ‘I’m bored’ call,…

Tech-Tip Friday – cyber-safety with your new gadgets!

Happy New Year! How did you celebrations go? My New Year’s Eve was quite low key with some fantastic friends spending the evening at our house. Did Santa visit your house last week? I hope so – and maybe he brought you a new (digital) toy or two, or maybe your kids were the lucky ones!

New Year’s Eve at our house :0)

While normal life has yet to resume where I am, and for the blog too, I just…

How to use a computer and not get a sore neck!

I’m often asked about the way in which our kids sit or stand or lean or lie when using their mobile devices. It’s a good question because we seem to be using technology more and more. And mobile devices mean we can use them anywhere, which means on the bus, on the floor, at the Dr’s surgery…wherever.

I’m a Doctoral student and a blogger – so I spend a lot of time on a computer, tapping away at…