About Tech Talk for Families

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Staff

Dale & Teresa, Senior Editors, Cofounders, and Podcast Cohosts

Dale has been using computers since 1982 and still smiles when he remembers giving his 5th grade computer teacher pointers on how to do animation on an Apple II. Since then, he has developed operating system interfaces and been on software development teams, both productivity and games. He has a decade of public speaking experience and has been playing video games since the Magnavox Odyssey. He has also been heard on the audio version of Blogger and Podcaster Magazine, has appeared on The Tech Podcast Round Table, and serves as an occasional panelist on The Daddy Panel. Teresa has a degree in elementary education and music education and and takes a practical approach to technology, always considering how it would best suit families. She also consumes parenting literature on a regular basis and has done so for longer than she's had children and has served for almost a decade moderating and operating internet discussion areas. Together, they have been parents for over 12 years and are former licensed foster parents. Both share a lifelong love of all things electronic and digital, especially when they benefit the family.

Kimberly

A high school student, Kimberly enjoys science fiction, fantasy, writing, and the many uses for an iPod. An avid reader, she especially enjoys video games based on books and movies and seeing how they compare to their source material.

Dani

Dani, in late elementary school, enjoys writing and creative arts and often offers a fresh perspective on any given situation. She's happiest when designing something new and enjoys open-ended games that allow for a lot of self-expression or deal in relationships.

Hannah

As an early elementary school student, Hannah gets frustrated with her DS, because most of the games require a level of interface control that becomes an obstacle to her enjoyment of the games, so she tends to prefer using her Leapster or other systems designed for younger hands. She also loves podcasting, so you'll catch her on our audio show on a regular basis, offering her unique perspective during reviews or filling in when Teresa's unavailable.

Contributing Writers

Kevin Cummings

Kevin Cummings is a husband, father, writer, podcaster, and educational administrator -- not necessarily in that order. He's been a committed computer geek from his high school days when he worked a summer job to purchase an Ohio Scientific Challenger 1 computer. In the 90's he developed a shareware program called TutorDOS which was used on six of the seven continents and taught thousands of people the basics of Bill Gate's infuriating Disk Operating System. His video game systems have included the original Atari console, a Mattel Intellivision, and nearly every Nintendo console ever built. To fill his days, he works as an education administrator at a small technical college in Northern Utah. His weekly humor podcast Short Cummings Audio draws in literally tens of listeners and is the basis of his book My Favorite Shortcomings.

Dennis Gray

Ringmaster Greg

Ringmaster Greg (rm greg) spent the first half of his life as a professional student concluding that career with a Ph.D. in Medical Research, which means he is a World Authority on very little. Unfortunately Greg’s degree is not in electronics, in fact he knows just enough to be dangerous in that field. He does not speak technobabble and the last computer language he was familiar with was Fortran 77, as in 1977. As far as he is concerned, C++ is an Algebraic Statement, Pearl is a precious gem, Wine is something you have with dinner, and Ruby (on Rails) is the sister train to the Orient Express. Greg’s most recent, proud accomplishment was figuring out how to use Automator on his Macintosh PowerBook G4 to sort and file the medical journals he needs for work. "W00t!" and High Fives all around. Greg loves his Mac. Unfortunately, when Greg was around 12 years old, he overheard his father tell a friend, “He who dies with the most toys wins,” which Greg understood to be life’s fundamental challenge and since that day has sought to own every new, cool, state-of-the-art, electronic gadget available, much to the chagrin of his wife, Tonya. Finally and most importantly, Greg is the proud father two very active and tech savvy boys, Nikolai (6 years) and Caleb (4 years) and he does his best to help them keep up with the Electronic Joneses. A Sony PSP, Sony PS3, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo Wii, and LeapFrog Leapster, along a menagerie of Macintosh Computers helps Greg to keep his finger on the pulse of the Electronic World. In his limited spare time, Greg is an assistant professor at a university in the Chicago, IL area and records a Family Friendly Podcast with his family called Dancing With Elephants.