America’s Youth are Developing Social and Technical Skills Online

It may surprise you to know…our teens are learning important skills online.
A study sponsored and supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation was released this month.  I attended a preview at Stanford last spring and was anxious to see the conclusions.  The study was the result of a $50-million digital media and [...]

No Comments

Feeling Nostalgic at Thanksgiving

Growing up in Texas
I grew up in Texas and during the holidays I sometimes get a little nostalgic.  Like it or not, Texas is a place of big, bold personalities.  I wouldn’t trade my experience for all the world because it taught me a lot about solid values, work ethic and rugged individualism.  I also [...]

No Comments

The Coffee Shop Named Twitter

Twitter can be confusing. I’ve been using it since summer and at first I didn’t get it.  I’m still using it and every now and then, it re-defines itself in my mind.  For those of you who don’t use it, it is “sort-of” micro-blogging.  You are limited to posting 140 characters that are viewed by [...]

1 Comment