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Back in my day…

October 26, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

This morning my wife told me of a dream she had about a meeting that was coming up later in

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Geomag GREEN LINE Color Magnetic Building Set review

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments review, STEAM, STEM

A few days ago the PR folks for Geomag sent us over a sample of a Geomag GREEN LINE Color

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School from Pixabay
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Back to in person school, thoughts on this

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

March 16th if I remember correctly was the last day my 1st grader had in person schooling. What seems like

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School from Pixabay
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Parents who fled public virtual schools in Nashville for private finding out they’re now paying for virtuals schools

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

School started virtually-only in Nashville what seems like thirty two years ago, although it’s probably only been a couple of

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Disney+ coming to Assistant-enabled small screens

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

If you’ve got a Google Assistant smart display, Nest Home Hub, or another similar Google-ecosystem product, Disney+ is going to

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GoCube
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GoCube, a smart Rubik’s cube that teaches

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

Something I should have been good at as a child was Rubik’s cubes. I was not. I didn’t discover until

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School from Pixabay
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Four classes of not learning due to tech issues

September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

We’ve entered the phase of everything breaking in Nashville’s remote learning. Yesterday a teacher couldn’t share her screen which meant

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Unrelated goats are unrelated
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A month in: The trials of Nashville’s remote learning

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

I believe this is week four of Nashville in remote learning mode, maybe 37 for all I know at this

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Kid Space
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Google announces Kids Space, more than just YouTube Kids

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

Google announced a couple of days ago on their blog that Kids Space was coming out this Fall. This is

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Happy little virus
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Metro schools announce another 48 days of virtual schooling only until they announce another two months of virtual schooling only

August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

People who are bad at math were anxiously awaiting yesterday to hear whether Nashville would resume in-person classes while the

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Get family scheduling under control with Google’s Family Bell

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Paul King 0 Comments

Here’s the scenario: at 8am my kids both have morning announcements from their school principal followed by my oldest going

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Paul King
Paul King - 4 months ago
Parents who fled public virtual schools in Nashville for private finding out they’re now paying for virtuals schools
https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/mount-juliet-christian-academy-transitions-to-online-learning-after-2-teachers-test-positive-for-covid-19/
Paul King
Paul King - 5 months ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
I'll check this out tonight unless it's chaos - I think in the new version of FireOS you have to go into the adult profile, share the app with the kid in order for it to even be seen. They added some...
BillinCT
BillinCT - 5 months ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
I know this was 10 months ago, but things have changed. I succesffuly made this work 3 years ago using ES explorer. We got a replacement tablet and I did everything I had done before, but ES...
Roo the Hunter
Roo the Hunter - 2 years ago
The day my 4yo went full Jackass
:D
Paul King
Paul King - 2 years ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
as I recall you can download a file explorer from Amazon - ES File Explorer was what I used then, there're a few. I'll be back tonight and take a look, but I did it from the non-child profile,...

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