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Dad, you're a nicer person without your iPhone

As parents, do we find ourselves in situations where we are physically with our families but not present? The following is an interesting article, that makes you think.

http://www.iphonematters.com/

Full article  (resistanceandrenewal.net)

Quotes:

"I had probably (but can’t exactly remember) been sucked into twitter when he asked again, this time more insistently. ‘Dad, can you answer me?’ This time I snapped back: ‘Look, can’t you see I am busy? Let me just finish this’.

He was quiet – and then replied evenly:

‘Dad, you’re a nicer person without your iPhone.’

"And it is a reminder to me of listening to the right voices. Adults can easily assume that children don’t really have much to say to us – this is why children get patronized and fobbed off with distracted answers. But I need to remember that anything my son is saying to me is always more important than anything I can read on twitter. "

Taking a day away from technology

Here is a challenge for over the Summer Break. Take a break from technology. The author suggests a 24 hour break but it needs to be planned to get the most out of the time.

Full article (bbc.com/capital)

Quotes:
"If you’re anything like me, your precious time is gobbled by a pinging phone, a bouncing email icon and the ubiquitous stack of admin."

End the work week on a high

Use the hours before you shut down to become that clean desk person. Attack your do-do list with vigor and plough through your emails.

Plan something fun

Plan an activity, such as a hike or meal with friends, but do not overbook

The Sabbath Manifesto is a creative project designed to slow down lives in an increasingly hectic world.
http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/

The near future: Apple's new OS and iOS.

Here is the near future with Apple operating systems. We are not suggesting updating to these systems as soon as they are released. Just wanting to keep you in the loop of what is ahead.

The school will advise our community what is the best option for SFS. 

At present it is:

Mac laptop: Yosemite (10.10), Mavericks (10.9) and at least Snow Leopard (10.8)

iDevices: OS 8 and at least OS 7

http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-preview/

Google Cultural Institute

• Tour the lava tubes on this South Korean island and World Heritage Site. 
• Walk up to the Great Sphinx and gaze at the Great Pyramids in Cairo.
• Get a fish-eye view of the most extensive coral reef system in the world. 
• Peep a 360-degree view at the top of the snow-covered mountains.
• Take a drive down legendary Route 66.
• Examine dozens of 3D animal skulls—from the California Grizzly to the Amazon River Dolphin.
• Step inside Ford’s Theatre, view artifacts like John Wilkes Booth's derringer, and get a history of the building itself and the fateful night that put it in the history books when President Lincoln was assassinated.
• See the evolution of the spacesuit at this Russian manufacturing organization.
• Neither Rome nor the Eiffel Tower was built in a day, and this digital exhibit walks you through the entire process with stories, drawings, and amazing photographs of the tower as it was built.  
• From the Museum Victoria, this exhibit contains images that show in stunning detail a variety of natural history illustrations from 1850 to 1900.
• Queensland Museum has the F.P & A.P. Dodd Collection of Tropical Insects from Australia and New Guinea with elaborately arranged cases of colorful beetles and butterflies.   
• Jump from room to room and floor to floor in an empty, virtual version of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
• If people are your passion, scope the collection at the National Portrait Gallery.
• The closest thing to an internet art museum, the Art Project page on the Cultural Institute site is a gallery of high quality images from around the world, across time and medium. 

From an article at: http://mentalfloss.com/article/63148/15-best-pages-google-cultural-institute