I heard his voice as Trooper 4 while playing Halo: Reach. I've seen him as the charismatic host of Spike TV’s Video Game Awards in 2011. And my son and I are both huge fans of his tech-savvy super-agent character Chuck Bartowski from the NBC series Chuck. But I quickly ...

Usually I stick to profiling the work of specific developers, but there are three apps I've come across recently that I think are worth talking about and worth downloading and using with children at an appropriate age and stage of development.

My GeekDad colleague James Floyd Kelly and I teamed up to do our investigative report on Ben Bertoli, who teaches sixth grade math, science and language arts in Indianapolis, Indiana. Ben's launching ClassRealm, his project to gamify education through a customizable classroom management system built on role playing themes.

We were reading a story one night, when she asked “What’s that?”  her finger squarely on a giant question mark.  This opened her eyes to the world of punctuation and from then on she was hooked.  Now at night, when … Continue reading →...

Since Primo has invented games like chess and begged each day to go back to Director’s Park to play on the chess boards left out each day we thought it was time to get a chess board of our own. … Continue reading →

Here in Portland we have been in full on wintery mix for the last two weeks. Sometimes it snows, other times it rains, but it’s always cold. Each morning I have to get one or both of the boys to … Continue reading →

As my wife pulled the hose around from the faucet to the walkway, the coils intertwined in front of me and formed a perfect sheepshank knot. She looked back at the tangle in frustration. Without a word, I calmly reached down and pulled free the one critical loop, releasing the ...