Have you seen us on the Huffington Post?
Our editor-in-chief is a regular blogger for Huffington Post and gives her take on the trending topics taking Quib.ly by storm, the latest technology affecting family life and parenting in the digital...
View ArticleNot long until our home education Twitter chat!
If you’re curious about home schooling, considering home schooling, already home schooling or perhaps even sceptical about home schooling, our Twitter chat on Thursday is the ideal time to get all your...
View ArticleA virtual high school, how does that work?
As part of our home education week on Quib.ly, we invited Jacqueline Daniell from virtual secondary school InterHigh to explain the concept and how virtual schooling can deliver real life results. I...
View ArticleHome education Twitter chat today!
Be sure to log on to Twitter today at 11am BST to take part in our Twitter chat on home schooling. We will be using the hashtag #QuiblyQs and discussing the highs, lows and massive misconceptions about...
View ArticleDid you see us on BBC Click?
We were delighted with Kate Russell’s review of Quib.ly on BBC Click today. Kate perfectly summed up what Quib.ly is about, and why we exist, describing us as ‘hitting the nail on the head’. Rather...
View ArticleWhat we learned this week #48
I’m still reeling from the revelation of zombie-based learning, if I’m honest; but we’ve learnt a lot more this week besides that, and most of it doesn’t involve the shuffling undead masses. In fact,...
View ArticleGigglebugs: Laughter and apps are the best medicine
Laughter is contagious. It’s difficult not to at least crack a smile when somebody else is in a fit of giggles, except maybe if their mirth is at your expense. It’s that idea – the former, not the...
View ArticleEverybody’s Talkin’ #4
I don’t know about you, but I’ve mainly spent this week in a state of smug satisfaction at Microsoft back pedalling on their privacy-violating new Xbox console. That wasn’t the only hot topic of the...
View ArticleKindles Vs books: what do kids really think?
As parents, we make a lot of assumptions about children and their interests. Sometimes, asking them what they really think can be full of surprises. As was the case when we asked fantastic 10-year-old...
View ArticleCareers advice in schools is broken, here’s how to fix it
Teens need tools, time and a spark of inspiration to drive their aspiration and motivation, says Claire Young Claire Young is director of School Speakers and the brains behind Girls Out Loud. Not to...
View ArticleDispatches from the front line of online consequences
Rob Zidar is co-founder of ThirdParent, a company that can check the public profile of children and teenagers online on behalf of parents and, yep, employers and universities. We asked him how this...
View ArticleWe’re all going on a Quib.ly holiday
According to the Post Office – you know, the guys who handle those physical emails you send – parents will spend £460 entertaining their kids this summer. Which seems a little conservative an estimate...
View ArticleThe things we think and do not say (about e-safety)
James Diamond provides training and advice on e-safety and safeguarding and is a popular expert on Quib.ly. Here he busts some myths and rights some wrongs about e-safety. Sadly, or ironically, in an...
View ArticleWhat we learned this week #50
So here we are. 50. 50! Can you believe it? You better believe it. You’re reading it. It’s real. Provided we’re not part of some Matrix-style simulation, where time doesn’t actually move, that is...
View ArticleWIRED 2013: The Next Generation
Image from wiredevent.co.uk. Space: the final frontier. These are the… sorry, lost myself in Picard for a moment there. The Wired 2013 conference’s Next Gen spin-off doesn’t involve Star Trek, so far...
View ArticleMaker Camp: Fewer campfires, more Google
My perception of summer camps is mostly informed by Addams Family Values – which is brilliant, by the way – so the Maker Camp seems like a total 180 in comparison. Free to attend from the comfort of...
View ArticleAdorable tech: the augmented reality comfort blanket
Hospitals still scare me – the sterility, the fact that, well, they’re full of ill people – so I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be a kid stuck in there. One way to make the unfamiliar...
View ArticleWhat’s Valve got in the Pipeline?
I’ll tell you! Or, this video will tell you, if you’re so inclined. I won’t be offended. That much. Valve – video game auteurs behind the Steam service and the Half-Life and Portal series – have set up...
View ArticleWhat we learned this week #48
I’m still reeling from the revelation of zombie-based learning, if I’m honest; but we’ve learnt a lot more this week besides that, and most of it doesn’t involve the shuffling undead masses. In fact,...
View ArticleGigglebugs: Laughter and apps are the best medicine
Laughter is contagious. It’s difficult not to at least crack a smile when somebody else is in a fit of giggles, except maybe if their mirth is at your expense. It’s that idea – the former, not the...
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