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Twitter for a digital immigrant

September 11, 2012

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Finally, I am a twitter nut!  Ordinarily I am the first one in line for the latest and the greatest, but twitter has simply eluded my comprehension. Twitter has made me feel like a visitor to a foreign land where certain delicacies the natives savor just seem unapproachable to me. As a print native immigrating […]

To the lawmakers

March 27, 2012

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I have recently discovered an amazing performance poet, Lauren Zuniga.  Her video, which I have embedded here, is powerful and amazing, and expresses in just a few minutes what many have attempted to convey for a number of years.  Take a few minutes to watch it, then continue with my comments below. I also spent […]

Drag ‘n Drop – into the future

September 14, 2011

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Just a short decade or so ago, the phrase “drag and drop” had little if any meaning, and not many would have ever imagined that it would eventually be a phrase associated with using a personal computer.  But of course, this is only one among hundreds, probably thousands, of new concepts that have landed with dizzying […]

Gender still matters

June 30, 2011

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Two articles surfed recently that brought me back to thinking about the messy issue of gender, and ways in which things are changing, and not changing, in the world around us.  The first was a NYT interview with Audrey MacLean, who is founder of several tech start-ups, and a professor at Stanford.  The second is also […]

Apple Mania … I confess!

June 29, 2011

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I recently read a little article that says that someone has decided that Apple is now a religion .. that people who are Apple fans (fanatics, like me!) have similar responses when they view that neat little Apple logo (or another symbol related to the fabulous Mac world like the iCloud logo to the right) […]

Reflections on digital literacy

May 16, 2011

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Many of my friends and family have the impression that I stay ahead of the curve where all things digital are concerned … but this is not exactly an accurate perception!  Indeed, I love new tech gadgets, and continually search for ways to do things more efficiently.  My love of efficiency actually comes from reading […]

Girls and Social Media

April 12, 2011

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So I finished reading Peggy Orenstein’s book “Cinderella Ate My Daughter” several days ago, and have been thinking about the last couple of chapters for days.  Here she writes about the role of technology in girls lives (from toddler-hood onward)!  Several years ago I wrote an editorial in Advances in Nursing Science about the lack […]

Social Media — are we ready?

March 17, 2011

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As many of my friends know, I have been a “techie” of sorts for many years.  However, even though I have been aware of an used the major social media tools, I am only now really beginning to be an active user.  This video is a re-make of one that I posted on my web […]

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