Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

There’s something very disconcerting about hearing songs that were popular when you were in high school referred to as “oldies but goodies” on the radio today. :-p I ain’t THAT old, Mr. DeeJay! I have found such a fun website! It’s devoted to oldies music from the 50′s, 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s— with over 15 [...]

Here’s a terrific new site for you music lovers out there: Kerchoonz. It’s a social network website built by musicians and music lovers, and you can listen and download the music for free. Amazingly, the music artists are paid for their music, while Kerchoonz offers the free srvice for music listeners. They basically share the [...]

Hey look what I found, this looks like fun. I haven’t tried it yet, but I intend to send it along to my son (who loves stuff like this): Animasher. Here’s a tutorial I found for it. This looks like a mix of Windows Movie maker and PaintShopPro. This looks like so much fun! It’s [...]

Outstanding. Incredible. Spectacular! I’m talking about the lists of free educational software to be found at Owl & Mouse. We have downloaded all their programs and my kids have benefitted from it in innumerable ways. We really enjoy their geography programs. I have the children go over them from time to time, even when we [...]

If there is one Google product you had to have, it would be Google Earth. I thought everyone had heard of Google Earth, but I was talking to some folks recently who’d never heard it! I like the program so much that I wanted to be sure to mention it. The family has used it [...]