Sleek and Strong
Otters love the water, so it seemed natural to test our OtterBox iPad covers on the water. While sailing to the San Juan Islands in Washington, we tested the OtterBox Defender Series Case, and the Commuter Series Case.

Trouble in Paradise
There are some positive features, and limitations to the Apple iPad. Like all technological gadgets, bugs have to be worked out. I purchased the 3G iPad with 64 GB ($829 US).

Subject Matter: Dashboard for your iPad; operating multiple apps on an Apple iPad
Grades: All ages
Handy Apps in One Widget
I’m getting to know my iPad better. And one issue is only one application can be run at a time. This feature may not seem limiting, but it can be a bit redundant having to [...]

Subject: How to Take Better Notes; Recording Lectures, Meetings
Grades: Middle School to College, Businesses, Marketing, Tech Institutes
Latest Smartpen
Last year I reviewed the 1 GB Smartpen. It worked great recording lectures in the pen, and notes written on Livescribe’s special memory paper. My daughter dashed off with it to college. And I bought one [...]

Subject Matter: Using play cards and the card game “War” to teach Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and Fractions
Grades: All ages
War Party
This math game has probably been thought of, but I haven’t seen it on the Internet. Here’s a simple, yet competitive way to motivate students to learn math. Play individually, as teams, [...]

Subject Matter: Creating Claymation Movies Using PowerPoint and Videos to teach STEM; Combine science, art and technology
Grades: Upper Elementary to High School

What’s Your Story?
I’m writing a hands-on, elementary grade science issues for Science Weekly. My topic is the Science of Movies. Yet, how do you teach this topic when every schools may [...]

Subject Matter: Create, Remix and Share Music
Grades: Ages 7-12
Keep Clam with Music
Ok, here in the Northwest we say “Keep Clam” (our version of Be Cool). Yes, it’s a northwest thing (Puget Sound stuff, home of Jimmy Hendricks & Pearl Jam). Sibelius is definitely clam on music, since they have various software programs [...]