by Julie | Websites We Love
I feel pretty lucky to have a couple of daughters who dig STEM — that’s science, technology, engineering and math, in case you’ve seen the acronym floating around. While there are so many exciting developments in the last few years designed to get...
by Julie | Websites We Love
I was once a struggling engineering student, so I have a special appreciation for the courage and creativity of kids who really want to know how stuff works and aren’t afraid to jump in and figure it out. Now that one of my own kids is convinced she wants to be...
by Nicole Blades | Websites We Love
Have you ever been going somewhere specific, but you take an early turn and end up somewhere completely unknown and completely fantastic? You feel like you’ve discovered something private and special. How did I not know about this place? Well, that’s what...
by Kate Etue | Websites We Love
More and more classrooms are going digital with volunteer signups these days, which means room parents get to avoid the hassle of collecting rounds of paperwork from all the students in their class. Not to mention the environmental impact of saving all that paper....
by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love
I have just discovered the new ingredients database, TellSpecopedia, and I warn you, click over and it will be hard to leave. This clean, easy to navigate site currently details more than 1,300 ingredients found in foods and cosmetics from the common to the...
by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love
This is a sponsored message from our partner Reading Eggs. It’s back to school time, and that means new threads, fresh kicks, and time to turn reading from an easy summer hobby back into an essential skill. Whether you’ve got younger kids heading to...
by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love
I could not have been more delighted to be a part of this week’s kickoff for Google’s Made With Code, a timely, multi-million dollar initiative to bring more girls into coding and engineering and creating and solving problems via technology. Because as...
by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love
I am one of those (awful, judgy) people who will unfollow people on Instagram if their feed is filled with too many type-heavy, horribly designed promotions or ads or OMG LOOK AT MY CUTE BEHBEH proclamations over family photos that might otherwise be Instagram...
by Kristin | Websites We Love
I love the convenience of being able to buy everything from coffee to couch pillows on sites like Amazon, but it’s not always easy to be sure I’m getting the best bang for my buck when I’m shopping online. Well, that’s where the Zinc...
by Julie | Websites We Love
We admit we were pretty pleased with our own April Fool’s joke on Cool Mom Tech yesterday– we even fooled some of our own staff! Also, we’re still apologizing to some panicked people, who are worried that their ex boyfriends know they’ve been...
by Kate Etue | Websites We Love
It’s been 10 years since Sal Khan first started creating educational video tutorials to help his niece across the country with her math homework. We’ve been huge fans of Khan Academy since, and now we’re raising our collective fists in the air to...
by Kate Etue | Websites We Love
Don’t you love when you discover a really cool video online that’s not made with kids in mind at all, but you know your kids will love it anyway? You share it with them, and they get that look in their eyes (even if it’s just for a moment) that...
