Been getting many emails, tweets etc. with very valuable information regarding Halloween. Safety, Rape, Slut-Shaming, Racist Costumes. So I thought I would compile it all. I am not endorsing any particular item, just sharing everything that I’ve seen this week that could be used to help educate students. If you have other resources, please share … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Tech Lady Tuesday – NASA Rejects
NASA’s response letter to women applying for astronaut, 1962. pic.twitter.com/JDEBzD5lpT — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) October 28, 2013 This did not go out yesterday as hoped. Anyhow – this AMAZING submission was sent to me by my co-worker Jeremy Bowker. Basically, women were not cool enough to be astronauts and not even worth “contemplating”. So … Continue reading
Tech Lady Tuesday :: Halloween Edition!
Elvira the tech lady! Continue reading
Speaking of being Authentic….
Just saw this and had to share as a Part Two to my previous blog post. Funny Jimmy Kimmel video. Continue reading
Authenticity – Let’s keep it real for our kids…and for ourselves.
This morning I woke up – had some brain action going on being authentic – and then got in to work just to find that this is a seriously popular topic today. Chris Conzen wrote a piece mostly Social Media based. Speaker7 wrote a hilarious piece on lowering the bar. Here’s where my thoughts started: … Continue reading
Tech Lady Tuesday ~ Real, Honest-to-Goodness Tech Lady!
Grace Murray Hopper (later Rear Admiral Hopper), was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern languages. She popularized the term “debugging” … Continue reading