Instead of talking about the joys of family and Thanksgiving – all most people can talk about is Black Friday Sales (the day when retail outlets traditionally do enough sales to take them out of the red for the year).  So before you head out into cyberspace on Black Friday, here are some handy...

The Virginia Department of Education has teamed up with the Professor Garfield Foundation and the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia to provide guidance for students, teachers and parents to help students protect themselves online. Try out this new site – good learning activities for younger...

We highlight some really fun sites here every week.  We scour the net for fun games, safety tips and great resources – but this absolutely is the coolest thing I’ve seen lately!  We have highlighted Common Sense media before and we subscribe to their newsletter – well, look what came...

The advent of a new Virtual World game for kids often gets us to wonder - are we grooming kids to spend all their time playing games online?  To many adults, online games seem like a waste of time. However,  they have been shown to aid in reasoning and judgement, to engage children in a way that can...