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Media Darlings: Events and Exhibitions
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. My Trip To Disney World. CHAPTER 1, Meeting the Princesses. Yes, I am a middle-aged parent and I just took my first trip to a Disney resort (Disney World, to be exact). (more). RENT Is Due at Hoboken High. Interviews by Jack Silbert. A Child’s Christmas In NYC. My Own Pillsbury Halloween Whoopie Pie Test. If you liv...
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Media Darlings: TV and the Internet
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. TV and the Internet. Web Series We Love: Isabella Rossellini’s “The Mammas”. Isabella Rossellini’s latest installment of her nature web series Green Porno is the opposite of puritanical. (more). What an Adorable Dynasty! 8220;My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic”. Interview by Jack Silbert. If I could design the perf...
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#nurture1314 – The year in review… | Beyond New Horizons
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Reflecting on education, technology and life…. Conferences & Speaking. Dissertation: Multiliteracies and Writing. Using Twitter in the Primary Classroom. Nurture1314 – The year in review…. All over the world, education folk are taking part in #nurture1314. 8211; an idea which began last year and has gained more traction this year via Twitter. The premise is simple – post your 13 best moments/achievements of 2013 and then your top 14 hopes or plans for 2014. Energy levels are now running very low! It is a...
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Media Darlings: The Raccoon's On Our Side: “Guardians of the Galaxy”
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. Thursday, July 31, 2014. The Raccoon's On Our Side: “Guardians of the Galaxy”. Movie Review by Jack Silbert. I’ll admit it: I was a little skeptical. Was Marvel scraping the bottom of the barrel, looking for even more superheroes to build a movie franchise around? Vin Diesel as a… uh… tree! Glen Close in a cameo.
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Media Darlings: Review Policy
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. You’d like to submit something for review? That’s great. I’m happy to take a look. Contact me at maggiehames@mdarlings.com with press releases, information, or questions. If your product has a specific launch date or date by which you’d prefer a review to be posted, let me know up front. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Media Darlings: All This and Middle Earth, Too—“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. Thursday, December 25, 2014. All This and Middle Earth, Too—“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”. Movie Review by Jack Silbert. First off, kudos to Peter Jackson for getting the word “the” into his movie title three times. That’s only two fewer “the”s than armies! And the second one. Martin Freeman as Bilbo.
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Media Darlings: Music and Interactive Media
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. Music and Interactive Media. Music We Love: “Elska – Middle of Nowhere”. The Icelandic word elska means “to love” which is no small coincidence. (more). Music We Love: “It’s Love” by Ellen and Matt. Spend More Time With Rubbish Books! Music We Love: “Strange Dees, Indeed” by the Deedle Deedle Dees. When I first hear...
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Media Darlings: Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. Apps We Love: Word Monster. Review by Joseph Broda. Word Monster by OtherWise Games is a challenging word puzzle game for older kids. (more). Illustrated Apps We Love: “Petting Zoo by Christoph Niemann” and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Friends Stickerbook”. Two new apps—one...
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Media Darlings: Classic Media
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. For Your Consideration: The “Best Pictures” for Families. I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s Academy Awards season. Offered for your consideration: the greatest family films to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (more). Not In Front of the Kids! With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. Disney's Eleventh Animated F...
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Media Darlings: Not Too Big to Fail: Disney’s “Maleficent”
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Navigating a media-rich world with like-minded parents. TV and the Internet. News and Media Literacy. Music and Interactive Media. Apps, Learning Toys, Videogames. The Classic Disney Project. Friday, May 30, 2014. Not Too Big to Fail: Disney’s “Maleficent”. This film is aptly named. You get a whole lot of the character Maleficent. Jolie as Maleficent visits the baby. But therein also lies the problem. Maleficent. The Disney-fied tale is deconstructed and put back together into a largely unrecognizable na...