Mapping D&D With Minecraft
Weekly Dungeons & Dragons gaming sessions with my sons and their friends took an experimental turn recently. Using Minecraft Pocket Edition, we now have an interactive map for our current adventure.
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Geeks Making Art: Math-Based Interactive Bach In Your Browser
Alexander Chen uses string length and pitch equations to create a math-based interactive Bach concierto in your browser at baroque.me
Continue ReadingiPad App Magic Belles Helps Kids Have Fun, Make Music
Magic Belles: Magic Music is an engaging iPad application that introduces young children to music composition while providing some pleasant background sounds for adults. Unlike the website activities Luma Creative launched a year ago, the touchscreen interaction lowers barriers for …
Continue ReadingAlleyoop Partners with NASA and National Geographic to Bring STEM to Your Teen’s Screen
Innovative learning website Alleyoop.com, which launched in February with math, has partnered with NASA, National Geographic, and others to create a full-spectrum science program for students ages 13-17.
Continue ReadingHelp Send The GeekMoms To South By Southwest!
The GeekMoms need your help to get their panel accepted at South by Southwest this year! From March 8th-17th legions of tech, film and music geeks will be in Austin, Texas for this huge event.
Continue ReadingDisney’s “It’s a Small World” Interactive iOS App
Anybody who knows me personally will know that I am an enormous Disney geek. Interestingly, for me it is not so much about the films as it is the theme parks. There are paintings all over our house of the parks, I have a collection of plates and collectables and several boards full of trading […]
Continue ReadingPerambuLit: A Choose Your Own Audio Story
Ever since I devoured all those Choose Your Own Adventure books — mine were actually Endless Quest books put out by the folks who gave us Dungeons & Dragons — I’ve been intrigued by the idea of interactive storytelling. Here was …
Continue ReadingVoting Ends Tomorrow! Send the GeekDads (and Moms) to South by South West
Once a year, a conflagration of techno, film, and music geeks descends on Austin (that’s in Texas) for a little thing we like to call “South By” (the short form for South by South West). The event attracts tens of …
Continue ReadingSend the GeekDads (and Moms) to South by South West (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Once a year, a conflagration of techno, film, and music geeks descends on Austin (that’s in Texas) for a little thing we like to call “South By” (the short form for South by South West). The event attracts tens of …
Continue ReadingSend the GeekDads (and Moms) to South by South West
Once a year, a conflagration of techno, film, and music geeks descends on Austin (that’s in Texas) for a little thing we like to call “South By” (the short form for South by South West). The event attracts tens of …
Continue ReadingTrying Out Digital Storybooks With a 4-Year-Old, Part 1: Jack and the Beanstalk
Like most kids his age, my 4 year old son loves it when his mother or I read books to him, and not just at bedtime. I’m sincerely pleased when he pulls up beside me or crawls onto my lap …
Continue ReadingVisit a TOMB in Boston
I have a love-hate relationship with puzzles. Some I’m good at, others just drive me crazy. But when I was looking for some family entertainment on our recent trip to Boston, something billed as an interactive attraction for older kids, …
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