Hey Gals--Meet Cathy Plourde!
She runs a Portland art and theater teen group called Add Verb Production
Cathy used to teach high school, but was a drama club and summer stock theater junkie from 8th grade on. She mostly has written plays with girls in mind, and prefers to…
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Added by ZR Content on April 22, 2009 at 9:45am —
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The girls LOVED this Fab Female and were fascinated by her profession. Check out their Q & A's below!
Name: Linda J. Brown
Profession: Cinematographer
Short bio: I always wanted to be a filmmaker but started out as a special education teacher. As a second career I went to film…
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Added by ZR Content on April 7, 2009 at 10:41am —
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Girls from Esperanza School of Hope participate in participatory learning culture! Check out their Q & A on the Meaning of Bling!
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Added by ZR Content on March 26, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Girls, Meet Hassani Turner
Hassani is 24 and is researching Zoey's Room and sites like Zoey's Room in order to see what inspires this generation of girls. She has been involved with another organization called SheHeroes which uses media as a way to highlight women in powerful posi…
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Added by ZR Content on March 5, 2009 at 11:18am —
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About Qing
Qing is an associate professor of educational technology at the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. She reasearches how kids use of technology to improve their learning of mathematics and science as well as equity and social justice. Not only that, but she has pu…
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Added by ZR Content on January 28, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Want to see something really cool? Because of our "Visual Impressions" Tec-Trek (the one that teaches about digital moviemaking)--we now have our own tribute vid by one of our ZR gals, sheltieluv.
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Added by ZR Content on December 29, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy--from Zozo and her FOZs--JENN and MAYA
"I jess wanna say to all my zeeps (thats "zr peeps") that i love dem and wish all a happy holiday and new year....--zoey"
check out their card--below!
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Added by ZR Content on December 18, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Young adult fiction is HOT! HOT! HOT! right now...so you guys are gonna love meeting Anna, author of
Portia's Ultra Mysterious Double Life.
The story is about Portia, a twelve-year-old girl who goes on a search for her…
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Added by ZR Content on December 9, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Buy Once, Give Twice!
one-of-a-kind glass necklaces by artist, Maggi Blue
Get through the holidaze with an alternative way of gift-giving this year.
Zoey's Room is launching an online store with jewelry, art, and gift baskets fro…
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Added by ZR Content on December 3, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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Hey girls, now is your chance to ask Erin some very interesting questions on the Z Board. Erin traveled to Ghana (in West Africa) a few years ago and brought her girls from a remote village all the way to their first Internet Cafe, where the very first website they ever saw in their lives was...you guessed it..Zoey's Room. All you have to do is go to Tec Trek Tips and post "Question for Erin" and we will ask her to come in and answer them for you. Want to know more about her? Read below.…
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Added by ZR Content on November 26, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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Say hi to Zozo, "Team Edward"
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Added by ZR Content on November 26, 2008 at 3:39pm —
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Mother guilty of misdemeanor charges in cyber-bullying that led to death
BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press
A jury on Wednesday convicted a Missouri mother of lesser, misdemeanor crimes in the MySpace cyber-bullying case linked to a 13-year-old girl's suicide.
The Los Angeles federal court jury on Wednesday rejected felony charges of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress on young Megan Meier.
However, the jury found defendant Lori Drew guilty of three counts…
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Added by ZR Content on November 26, 2008 at 3:27pm —
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Amy Poehler and Friends to Launch New Digital TV Show Aimed at “Smart Girls” and their Parents
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Show Features Girls Who Are “Changing The World By Being Themselves”
AUSTIN, Texas – Sept. 18, 2008 – Digital media company On Networks® (ON) announces an original series aimed at young girls called Smart Girls at the Party. The show is created by and stars actor/writer Amy Poehler, and friends Meredith Walker, former senior producer for Nickelodeon’s Nick…
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Added by ZR Content on November 21, 2008 at 11:56am —
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Here we go, an interesting award-winning site that is breaking down the barriers of communication ebtween students who earnestly want to tip off administrators that something bad is happening (cyberbullying or vandalism, drugs) but don't want to be "seen" leaving the principal's office.
Check it out.
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Added by ZR Content on October 22, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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Watch out for 'clickjacking'
The problem is, it's hard to detect, and - according to Trend Micro - virtually all Internet users can be victimized by clickjacking. What is it? A computer-security attack that tricks people into clicking on a link that appears only briefly on their screens, such as in a little game (see this
"">illustration on YouTube. Clicking on it could cause your browser to…
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Added by ZR Content on October 22, 2008 at 1:51pm —
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Girls, meet Racquel Tibbetts, an Assistant Vice President of Business Banking at KeyBank. did you know KeyBank is one of the most women-friendly banks around? They have a special program Key4Women that helps women businesses thrive!
Here's a little more about Racquel...
I work f…
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Added by ZR Content on October 22, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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In light of the new intellectual property law President Bush just signed, it's interesting to read the story about how 13-month-old Holden Lenz's 29-second dance video on YouTube became a case of "willful copyright infringement under the laws of the United States" whereby Holden's mother "is liable to a fine of up to $150,000," [
see article] Stanford University law professor Lawren…
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Added by ZR Content on October 22, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Brought to you by Hardy Girls Healthy Women
"Newsweek" recently featured an article highlighting the new book The Porning of America by Kevin Scott and Carmine Sarracino which talks about how sex has become a regular part of advertisements.
The book argues that through Bratz Dolls and beyond, the influence of porn is influencing our self-perceptions and behavior.
As many as 90 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls aged 13 to 14 have accessed sexually explicit content at least once, accordi…
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Added by ZR Content on October 21, 2008 at 3:25pm —
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Hardy Girls Healthy Women Founder Lyn Mikel Brown is hosting a Q & A on the PBS parents site--check it out and ask a question!
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Added by ZR Content on October 21, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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From Safekids/NetFamily News
Microsoft's age-verification concept
Microsoft has created a euphemism to go with its age-verification plan: "digital playgrounds," where kids get digital ID cards so they can hang out in adult-free places online. It's part of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative that has involved other companies in a consortium aimed at tackling the Internet identity problem. The problem is "how to make the Internet safer not just for children, but also for a…
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Added by ZR Content on September 15, 2008 at 9:51am —
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