If Santa left an Amazon Kindle under your tree, here are some sites where you download free eBooks. Free eBooks at Amazon: these include classics that are out of copyright, and limited-time promotional ebooks. Jungle Search: provides a price range search at Amazon, so, for example, you can look for books less than $5.00 or… [Continue]
Thanksgiving Updates
Are you getting excited for Thanksgiving? I am. I am hosting my entire family, twenty-five guests for dinner. And seven guests sleeping over, plus my two kids coming in from out of town. So this old house will be sleeping ELEVEN people. How fun!! I am thrilled. My favorite family recipe is this one for… [Continue]
Cyber Security Games
This week’s What is Phishing? topic at Surfnetkids is an important educational subject for both students and grownups. As a strong believer in the educational power of games, I am thrilled to be hosting a series of cyber-security games created by the FTC. The Phishing Scams quiz is, of course, directly related to this week’s… [Continue]
Free Online Storage
This week I am meeting in a secret location (ha! ha!) with a mastermind group that I’ve been in for more than eleven years. Today the topic of Dropbox came up, and we all agreed on what a great, free tool it is. Dropbox is a simple-to-use file synchronization utility that uses “cloud” storage to… [Continue]