I just started this week with teaching my TechSperts (Grades 4-6) MIT’s Scratch programming software (scratch.mit.edu) to make interactive games and stories about the Internet Safety topics we have learned about on NetSmartz.org.

I admit, I had WAY too much fun playing around, I mean, learning the software.

Check out my first Scratch Project!

Apple TV is fantastic so far but it is missing 2 things:
1) Let me log into my flickr account so that I can show my private photos as my screensaver. Right now, I have to make my profile a public searchable profile so that Apple TV can find my account by my contact name, and then it only shows the photos that I have made public. Argh.
2) Skype: Add in a videoconferencing app like Skype with a plug in webcam and now we are having fun!

I have been in deep in a (slow) transition of my home computer to a Macbook, and of my TV to Apple TV with Time Capsule, so I have felt very out of sync with my media, including with this blog. I had my work flow down between my phone, my camera, Flickr, this blog, iTunes, my ipod…and now its still a bit questionable. But I am getting there. I really like having my music and movies accessible by my TV or computer at any time, and with AirTunes, I can play it all on my computer’s speakers and/or the TV wirelessly. Time Capsule is a whole 1TB of storage space and a much faster router for the wireless connection I need to stream all of this around the house. BUT, I haven’t quite got the syncing with my computer’s iTunes down, so I find myself double checking where my files are when I download them. I have a list of things still to do, like a spring cleaning, but it is a beautiful day today in Boston that really should be appreciated since we were flooded (in some places, quite literally) with rain for three days last weekend!