children's

When the Clock Got Sick

Once upon a time, in a land not too far from where you live, there was a bank whose outside clock was the talk of the town. Clocks usually don’t cause people to talk about them, unless they’re not working right. This clock wasn’t working right at all.
The clock was a digital clock, meaning […]

Phil Shapiro delivered the keynote address at the annual Computers in Adult Literacy conference in Philadelphia in 2000. He blogs on the group blog, Community Voices, at PCWorld.com. He has worked for the Arlington Public Schools as an Instructional Technology Coorinator. Please see the complete bio for more information.

Ellen the Eagle Needs Glasses

Ellen the eagle first suspected that she needed glasses the day that she swooped down out of the sky and grabbed a small lawn chair to carry back to her hungry children. When she arrived back at her nest, perched high atop a cliff, her oldest son said, somewhat sarcastically, “Great. Another lawn chair for […]

Phil Shapiro delivered the keynote address at the annual Computers in Adult Literacy conference in Philadelphia in 2000. He blogs on the group blog, Community Voices, at PCWorld.com. He has worked for the Arlington Public Schools as an Instructional Technology Coorinator. Please see the complete bio for more information.

Patty the Pigeon

Patty was the type of pigeon who always had a sense of adventure and an active curiosity. She lived in a brick hole near the top of a building near Union Station, in Washington D.C. Patty loved watching the trains come in and go out of the station. She loved the clackety-clack sound of the […]

Phil Shapiro delivered the keynote address at the annual Computers in Adult Literacy conference in Philadelphia in 2000. He blogs on the group blog, Community Voices, at PCWorld.com. He has worked for the Arlington Public Schools as an Instructional Technology Coorinator. Please see the complete bio for more information.

An Ordinary Mother

Katrina Katrinka was like any other ordinary mother with two kids, a stationwagon, and a 6O foot tall crane in her back yard. The crane just showed up one morning. A construction company was building an apartment building down the street. One day the company went bankrupt, and left their crane in Mrs. Katrinka’s back […]

Phil Shapiro delivered the keynote address at the annual Computers in Adult Literacy conference in Philadelphia in 2000. He blogs on the group blog, Community Voices, at PCWorld.com. He has worked for the Arlington Public Schools as an Instructional Technology Coorinator. Please see the complete bio for more information.

The Great Ping Pong Ball Experiment

The Nile river is the longest river in the world. It starts out in Lake Victoria, in the middle of Africa, and flows nearly four thousand (4,000) miles north to the Mediterranean Sea. Lake Victoria, where the Nile starts, is the second largest fresh-water lake in the world. The only lake that is larger is […]

Phil Shapiro delivered the keynote address at the annual Computers in Adult Literacy conference in Philadelphia in 2000. He blogs on the group blog, Community Voices, at PCWorld.com. He has worked for the Arlington Public Schools as an Instructional Technology Coorinator. Please see the complete bio for more information.