Since the demise of one of my favorite Web services PingMe was announced, I’ve trialed many different SMS/email reminder services, and finally decided on the aptly-named MyEmailReminders.com. In my last post, I spoke to the potential value of such a service for students (and occasionally-absent-minded school psychologists). Here, I’d like…
Category: Cell Phones
Text Messaging and Executive Functioning
Background PingMe is a service that allows users to schedule reminders to be sent via SMS, email, and Twitter. I’ve been a loyal user for over two years now (according to my archive, the first reminder I sent myself was to prep then-newborn Kiera’s bottle at a certain time) primarily…
PA HB 363: An Update
A few months ago, I wrote about proposed House Bill 363 in Pennsylvania, which, in its current wording, would effectively ban cell phones and computers in public schools statewide. I wrote a letter to my local state representative in which I voiced some very specific concerns over the possibility that…
PA HB 363: If You Can’t Beat ’em, Ban ’em!
Folks were all a-Twitter today about the newly-proposed legislation in Pennsylvania, PA House Bill 363. My colleagues & fellow Pennsyltuckians Dan Callahan and Jimbo Lamb have already written about the implications of this bill, but the SparkNotes version is that the bill mandates that cellular telephones and portable electronic devices…
Dear Diary
My recent stint filling in as a school psychologist in a maternity-leave position was unique to me for a few reasons. Not only was it my first “real world” exposure to working in the field (internship notwithstanding), but I was also working within a finite time period. This job had…