Tech

Giveaway: Ranger Rick Jr. Appventures

by Allison April 22, 2013 Giveaways

Young children seem to be natural environmentalists: Since my daughter has been old enough to walk, she’s been picking up litter on the playground, often spending more time tossing out trash than playing. Earth Day is a perfect time to encourage children’s environmental awareness (and to gently explain that no, Earth Day is not really [...]

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Fun iPad and Android Apps to Gift Your Kids w. Giveaway

by thien-kim December 10, 2012 Tech

Are you gifting your children with a tablet this holiday season? Pre-load the tablet with some fun, kid friendly apps before you wrap up their gift. I’m sharing some of my kids’ favorite apps that you can download onto your iPad or Android tablet (one even works on your Windows PC!). These apps will keep them [...]

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Five iPhone Apps I Can’t Live Without

by Stephanie October 4, 2012 Parenting

I collect apps the way I used to collect shoes. I love them, as with most people I use my iPhone for many things, keeping in touch with family, tweeting with friends and emailing for business. These are the five most used apps on my phone, there are many others, (twitter, oh twitter!) but [...]

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Being Blogalicious in 2012

by Jessica Haney January 24, 2012 Living

Be Blogalicious Weekend ’11 was so thought-provoking and so packed full of information, it’s taken me three months to write about the conference. Is that believable? It’s true. And when I think back to the presentation on “balance” by Jessica Smith (@JessicaNow) and Jeannette Kaplun (@Jeannette Kaplun), I’m okay with it. In fact, I’m taking [...]

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Community Building, Social Media, and Children

by Robin October 11, 2011 Child

Early elementary social studies curriculum includes learning what a community is. Children learn about community helpers; the meaning of school community and neighborhoods; town, farms, cities, states, countries. They learn how to participate in groups. They learn about laws of society. They learn about themselves, family, and community. They learn how to learn about their [...]

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Is Blogging Becoming Passe?

by Dawn Mooney August 22, 2011 Tech

Recently, many of the amazing women who I’m blessed to join here on The DC Moms gathered together for what we dubbed HomeHer, the celebration we could take part in while many of our other online pals were off living it up at BlogHer ’11. We ate, we drank, and we were all sorts of [...]

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Evernote, My Sanity Saver

by Andrea Meyers June 2, 2011 Tech

If the name of the software doesn’t announce its purpose clearly enough, then the elephant in the green logo lets you know that this is your organizer, message keeper, note taker, planner, journal, receipt filer—all the important stuff you don’t want to forget. I started using Evernote (free) to take notes of observations and assignments [...]

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Four Android Apps I Can’t Live Without

by thien-kim May 18, 2011 Tech

Are you jealous that the iPhone and iPad get all the fame and glory? Sometimes it seems like all the fun and cool apps are for the iOS. I’m intensely in love with my Android smartphone. I take it with me when I lay down with my toddler for his twice daily naps so I [...]

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Welcome

by Amie Adams August 2, 2010 Entertainment

The DC Moms? Oh no! Not another mommy blog! Nope. It’s not. You can call us mommy bloggers, though I won’t be held responsible for the response you might receive. When you lump us all together as a homogeneous group with no thoughts that differentiate us, you do so at your peril–and frankly at your [...]

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