Fight Brain Fog!

Or, at the very least, give yourself more resources to fight it! Cognitive abilities are like muscles, in that they have to be developed and exercised regularly, even stretched to keep them flexible. We can’t necessarily avoid the cognitive deficits…

Nifty! Know a girl aged 8-11?

Via the inestimable ideageek: Teaching girls to program “Kids learning to storyboard, brainstorm, critique, design, pitch ideas, psuedocode, actually code, and make toys do things.”

Relearning How to Play the Piano

I can’t remember whether or not I burbled about this already, but if this is a repeat you can get extra hugs the next time I see you or something. We have a working, marvelous, beautiful piano! It’s the freecycled…

School Update

School is going along fine. In fact, another semester is almost done for me, and Katie’s almost at the end of her semester, too. She’s kicking ass and taking names. Now that she’s settled academically, she’s stretching out into some…

From Katie: Learning by Doing

An awesome article by Seed magazine (my current favorite magazine!) about learning by doing. Apparently, that’s how we learn best. When we learn by doing, we retain the information we’ve learned much better than if it’s presented to us in…

Blog feeds on LJ redux, blathering about blogging

Ok—my blog is now on LJ, again, as enemyofentropy. Fibrant Living can be read at fibrantliving. Juliann pointed out that there wasn’t a link to register to comment on the FL blog. D’oh! No wonder I was so lonely over…

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