Author Archives: Shane

The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival

October 22, 2009 – 6:31 am

For ten chilly fall days each year, the Windy City becomes the center of my children’s media world. Starting today, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival will celebrate, not just 26 years of world-class children’s entertainment, but 26 years of empowering kids to become media literate and aware of the influence television, magazines and the [...]

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Play Time: FarmVille

October 16, 2009 – 11:13 am

Do you remember when poking someone on Facebook was fun? I know, it’s been a long time for me too. It didn’t end there though did it? The poke gave way to the super-poke, which begot the pillow fight before mellowing into a hatching egg. By this point most of us got wise to the [...]

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Disney’s Digital Reading Magic

September 29, 2009 – 7:45 am

Eric and I were lucky enough to be treated to a sneak preview of Disney Digital Books last week. Just imagine having an interactive library of over 500 Disney stories, both classics and new adventures on your computer, and you’ll be on the right track. I’m not talking about the plain old grayscale Kindle kind [...]

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Play Time: Meet Milo

September 10, 2009 – 11:28 am

If you’ve been following my Tweets lately, you might have noticed I’ve been fretting over the lack of creativity in console gaming these days. There are still great games being made, but it feels like no matter what the next big release is, it’s all been done before. Looking at the current generation of consoles, [...]

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“When I Grow Up…”

August 14, 2009 – 12:26 pm

The other day my wife and I were standing in line at Target, waiting to buy some G.I. Joe figures. As some of you may know, of all the brands that were a part of my childhood, the one that stands above all the others as my absolute favorite in the whole wide world is [...]

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Mattel Announces Augmented Reality Avatar Toy Line

July 24, 2009 – 11:41 am

The San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing. I’m not there, but all is not lost. By combining all the Tweets, Facebook updates, Flickr streams and RSS feeds I’m getting from there with a little bit of imagination, it’s almost like I got caught smuggling a bunch of fireworks into the San Diego Convention Center [...]

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Play Time: Augmented Reality Games

July 9, 2009 – 1:43 pm

***Warning*** To fully appreciate the futuristic coolness of this post, you ARE required to wear a Tron suit. First of all, what’s all this Augmented Reality business about? Wikipedia says it’s basically a mix of real-world images and computer generated graphics, brought together in real time. Think of the old Playstation iToy and you’re on [...]

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Six Children’s Books That Need The Hollywood Treatment

July 8, 2009 – 8:47 am

Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times article has been causing a lot of talk in my Twitter-verse lately, regarding the best kids’ book ever, and what with the recent announcement of two of my favorite children’s reads being adapted for the silver screen, Eric and I have been thinking about some more books that need making [...]

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Play Time: Orisinal

June 26, 2009 – 11:38 am

Anyone who’s worked with me in the past five or so years will tell you, as soon as I find an online game I like, I won’t just email you the link, I’ll chase you down and make sure you play it. Thankfully I don’t find games that are mass-email-worthy that often, but for those [...]

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Curiouser And Curiouser

June 23, 2009 – 2:00 pm

This week has started off proving to be quite the book-adaptation-fest. For starters, there’s been several gorgeously lavish pics released, revealing Tim Burton’s typically bizarre interpretation of Alice in Wonderland, or should I say, “Lewis Carroll’s, Tim Burton’s, Alice in Wonderland”? And then secondly, it’s been announced that the BBC is making a small-screen version [...]

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