Primo: A Mathematical Board Game
GeekMom Helen plays Primo, a mathematical board game.
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Author: Helen Barker
Catching Up With Storium
GeekMom Helen catches up with online collaborative storytelling game Storium. What happened with its Kickstarter campaign?
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Geeky Oxford–26 Characters and The Story Museum
A museum dedicated to reproducing favorite characters from children’s stories? Yes, it exists. GeekMom Helen explores the 26 Characters exhibition at the Story Museum.
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Telling a Tale With Storium
GeekMom Helen explores Storium, an online collaborative storytelling game.
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Pinbusted or Pintrusted: Easter Eggs
GeekMom Helen tests some popular pins for decorating and dyeing Easter eggs in our Pintrusted or Pinbusted series.
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Geeky Oxford—Oliver and the Seawigs at Oxford Literary Festival
GeekMom Helen takes her mermaid cosplaying daughter to the Oxford Literary Festival to meet Oliver and the Seawigs authors Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.
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Book Review: All Joy and No Fun
GeekMom Helen reads and reviews All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior.
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11 Young Reader Picks for National Reading Month
GeekMom Helen collates great books for younger independent readers for National Reading Month.
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Geeky Oxford–Meeting Dinosaurs and Dodos at The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
GeekMom Helen visits the newly reopened Oxford University Museum of Natural History to meet dinosaurs and dodos.
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Let’s Make It With the Mister Maker App
GeekMom Helen reviews the Mister Maker: Let’s Make It! app by P2 Games.
Continue ReadingJingling all the way with the Jingle Bells app
GeekMom Helen jingles all the way with the new Jingle Bells app.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Holiday Traditions: Crafting "Stained Glass" Windows
GeekMom Helen shares instructions for her holiday tradition of stained glass style window decorations which she makes every winter.
Continue ReadingWater Fun: Experiments for Mini Scientists
GeekMom Helen explores water science with her own mini scientist, using Lisa Burke’s Water Fun book.
Continue ReadingWhoosh Into the World of Room on the Broom
Is there room on the broom for an app like this? GeekMom Helen finds out with the new Room on the Broom app, out in time for Halloween fun.
Continue ReadingGeeky Oxford—Magical Books at the Bodleian Library
The Magical Books exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Library explores the incredible imaginative worlds of children’s fantasy literature through a variety of rare and interesting maps, books, and objects.
Continue ReadingGet Muddy with Daddy Pig's Puddle Jump
As every Peppa Pig fan knows, there’s nothing better than jumping in muddy puddles. However, if muddy puddles are in short supply, the new Daddy Pig’s Puddle Jump app is certainly a good substitute.
Continue ReadingA Social Network for Women Facing Breast Cancer
MyHealthTeams announced today its release of a new social networking site, MyBreastCancerTeam or MyBCTeam, is designed specifically for women facing a battle with breast cancer. The site is open to women currently receiving treatment, those recently diagnosed and even those who are 15+ year survivors. MyBCTeam uniquely allows women to come together, find others by age, location or even by diagnosis and treatments. I’ve often heard the best and easiest advice to hear is from someone who is/was going through exactly what you have had to go through. MyBCTeam provides these women a network to share stories, treatment tips, doctor referrals, scarf fashion trends, current research studies, fears, inspiration and day-to-day support.
Continue ReadingPhotography Snapshot: The Power of Lenses
This article is the third in a series teaching the basics of photography. We started by learning about the properties of light and how an image is created, we also learned how a lens bends light to focus individual rays into a single bright image. This lesson we are going to finish learning the scientific theory of lenses and how to use lenses for magnification in addition to brightness.
Continue ReadingMy First Designer Handbag and It’s for My Camera!
In a house full of boys, I rarely indulge in items specifically for myself. When I do, they have to be durable and practical. I am a photographer, my camera bag is always stuffed to the gills with camera bodies, lenses, filters, flashes, reflectors, my laptop, and various other things. Up till now I have been happily using a Tamrac Adventure 9 Photo/Computer Backpack. As you might imagine, the backpack had gotten extremely heavy to carry all of my gear when I headed out to a shoot. I was on the look out for a smaller bag that could hold my camera, an extra lens, my phone, and wallet; the bare essentials for a shoot. When I received my Dre Hartmann Cameron Hobo DSLR Camera Bag in the mail, I was impressed but intimidated. It’s white, it’s trendy, and it’s designer. I’ve never been a designer handbag carrier, as a mom I’ve always been terrified of carrying a bag that my kids could ruin by spilling juice on or dragging through the grass. I’m proud to admit that I am a complete convert; seriously I’ll never go back. I absolutely adore this bag.
Continue ReadingioShutter: Control your DSLR with your iPhone
I sometimes wish that my iPhone was my remote control for everyday life. I want it to do everything for me, or at least make life easier. Ever since I started taking an interest in photography, I’ve wanted to be able to link my iPhone to my DSLR camera to extend my reach and take self portraits. As you can imagine, I was thrilled when I received a review copy of the ioShutter cable to try for myself from Photojojo (a photographers haven of awesomeness)!
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