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New Websites and Apps for Kids

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Lori from The Well Connected Mom attended The Digital Kids Conference and came home with an armload of ideas for new sites and apps your kids will love. She explains,  Read more

A Look at Katie Salen's Ideas on Games and Education

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[Gail at The Female Perspective of Computer Science looks at some ideas about gaming, learning, collaboration, and mastery that Katie Salen's has shared in her conference speeches. -Virginia]  Read more

Great Storybook Apps Beyond the Usual Suspects

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Karen Robertson at Digital Kid's Author has some top 10 lists of great kids apps, including some especially good storybook suggestions that are not the usual Disney and Dora stories. She writes,  Read more

Double Fine Adventure and Me

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[Editor's Note: Gail at The Female Perspective of Computer Science is excited about Kickstarter project for a new game called "Double Fine Adventure." She explains why:]  Read more

A Review of Mass Effect 3

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The gaming world is all astir about the release of Mass Effect 3. Part of that stir is over the ending. There is a disagreement among the game's fans as to whether the ending is good or bad. crunchychocobo from Gaming Angels shares her opinions and enthusiams about Mass Effect 3. She points out,  Read more

10 Bad Tech Habits and How to Break Them

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Oh, my! How many of these 10 bad habits are you guilty of? Fortunately, Kristy Korcz from Geek Sugar not only knows what they are, she has suggestions for breaking them.  Read more

Toy Fair Toys that Promote STEM skills in Girls

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Looking for a terrific toy that can teach your child some valuable science, math, engineering or technology skills? Andrea Schwalm from Geek Mom has a whole list of STEMmy award winning toys. What's the STEMmy? Well, let Andrea explain,  Read more

Women in Games: The Escapist's Susan Arendt

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Welcome, GamingAngels (and now BlogHer!) readers! It’s time to start bringing you more Women in Games interviews. Why? Because so many people don’t realize all the different ways that you can work with games. You don’t have to be a programmer, or an artist — you can take your skills and make a gaming-related career out of it, and that’s pretty awesome.  Read more >

Who's the Average Gamer? It Might be You

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Megan O'Neill comments on the interesting infographic about social gamers from Flowtown in this post at Social Times.  Read more

Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Apps

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Lorraine Akemann at Moms with Apps read the biography of Steve Jobs. She took some valuable lessons from it that she applies to app development. Really, the lessons could apply to any endeavor. She writes,  Read more