We live in an exciting time with so many technologies available to us! The fast pace at which technology develops can be both exciting and overwhelming. As parents, it is important that we are aware of what our children are doing online and off.

As many of our students will spend a vast amount of time online learning this year, it is important to have a discussion with your child about how you want them to use the Internet. As a school we have given them guidelines on how to use technology as a learning tool while in school. We also ask that you talk with your children about your expectations of them while online, both in school and at home. Just as we give them guidelines and safety tips for the “real world” we need to give them guidelines for the World Wide Web as well. Here are few tips to get you started:

1. Ask your child to show you the sites they enjoy visiting.
2. If your child is using social networks (Facebook, ooVoo, Twitter, MySpace, etc.), make sure you know their passwords. This is not an invasion of privacy, it is the real world equivalent of knowing the phone number of the parents house they are playing at.
3. Give your child guidelines and rules for their use of the Internet at school and home. The sooner you set these rules the easier it is for them to understand how to properly use the Internet.
4. Show them sites you enjoy using, your work’s web page for example, or maybe espn.com ☺
5. Use the computer as a prayer tool. Have your child look a prayer online and lead the family in prayer. This is a good way to show the many uses of the computer and that God is everywhere!

Remember we must teach our kids to be the hands and feet of Jesus online and off! God bless!

Now to marketing, well let’s get this out of the way, our introductory slogan, “You can’t compare us to them, that’s like comparing apples to oranges.” Not to mention our orange you glad you own an orange product. Now because the sticker thing has been done, each of our products will come with a packet of orange seeds. Your friends will now know how many great orange products you own by looking in your yard! In addition we will shamelessly attach ourselves to some plight of human frailty and a month not taken by a cause and name that orange ribbon month. I am thinking a cure for hiccups may be a good one. 0.00001% of all orange sales will go to this worthy cause. In lieu of market research I will hold an event six months prior to the release of my product to see what people will like or not like about it. Orange you glad you read this!

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Best Buy- Not on the site yet!

We have a 2 ½ week old at home. This has me (and by me I mean my wife) getting up every few hours in the night. Normally this would be a problem, but not last night! Thankfully this allowed me to wake up and order my iPhone 4. A few issues I had:

Issue 1

I signed up on both the Apple and AT&T website to receive an e-mail when the phone is available. It is almost 2pm on the 15th and still nothing! This is what I was checking every two hours last night to see if I received the e-mail. Finally around 4am I went on the Apple website with my iPhone (I miss my iPad) to see if you can pre-order. I saw the pre-order was up!

Issue 2

I had my MacBook Pro on the night stand (I miss my iPad) and reached over, fired it up and logged onto Apple’s website and got the error page, well ok let me try AT&T

Issue 3

I went to AT&T and clicked on wireless and got a site maintenance error. So I went back to the AT&T main page, and saw the pre-order iPhone4 link. Clicked there and followed the step and seemed good to go. Got the check out, put in all my info pressed submit, then waited……and waited. Finally, I got a timed out error. Tired and upset I tried again 2 more times, same timed out error. Finally I get an e-mail saying 2 orders have been canceled. Being a person who things that Apple can do no wrong, I got sad and thought no way I am getting a HTC Evo, although the reviews have been pretty cool.

Not an Issue!

By this time its 6am, and I said let me check my order status, sure enough there it is! My iPhone has been ordered. Happiness overcame me and my 2 year old woke up as well, so needless to say not a lot of sleep last night! The lack of sleep is a small price to pay for the new iPhone! I think all the demand just goes to show how revolutionary this device is going to be! I will keep you posted on who the new iPhone can be use in education and in everyday life!