{"id":1933,"date":"2010-12-13T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T06:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2010-12-13T22:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T06:06:06","slug":"teaching-parents-about-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/12\/teaching-parents-about-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching parents about tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this holiday season, Google has set up a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachparentstech.org\/\">Teach Parents Tech<\/a> which has some easy video tips that you can send to those who often look to you for tech support. I found my way into one of the videos, which is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachparentstech.org\/currency\">currency conversion<\/a>. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pEbT6PZTq1g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was fun to be in front of the camera for a change, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be making a habit out of it. It was a good excuse to see what wearing makeup is like though.<\/p>\n<p>During the shoot, they asked everyone to share a story about giving their parents tech support. My story was about how I was showing my mom how to do something on the computer by controlling her screen remotely. (We live on opposite sides of the country.) Then, a week later, I was talking to my grandmother, and she was telling me how my mom was controlling my grandmother&#8217;s computer to do some tech support. So, while I was trying to show her something else, what I really taught my mom was how to do tech support!<\/p>\n<p>Some of the family tech support stories were chosen for a promo video, but mine wasn&#8217;t as you&#8217;ll see it doesn&#8217;t really fit the theme! I&#8217;m sure my mom is glad she was too advanced to make it into this one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHa1Dj3JIFQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this holiday season, Google has set up a site called Teach Parents Tech which has some easy video tips that you can send to those who often look to you for tech support. I found my way into one of the videos, which is about currency conversion. Check it out: It was fun to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/12\/teaching-parents-about-tech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching parents about tech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}