I'm a school psychologist who has been taking computer classes part-time for the past four years. I'm the mother of two daughters, so I have a personal interest in the area of women in technology. Last semester, I took two graduate courses - Human Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing. There were very few female students in my classes, which has been the case in all of the computer courses I have taken. I'm 50 years old, and assumed that things would be much different by now.

The NCWIT K-12 Alliance deployed its first project this week: we gave away 4,000 Gotta Have IT resource kits at the 2007 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference, sponsored by ISTE, attracts more than 18,000 K-12 educators from around the world. We're eager to distribute the kit to these educators, and to hear more about their needs, concerns, stories and successes, teaching technology in their classrooms.

It's rare to find a situation when one issue before Congress can be solved or aided by another issue, but that's what has happened in recent months.

Every few months, a reporter, blogger, or columnist knocks on meebo's door and invites one or all of us to share our experiences about being an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. We've talked about the early days brainstorming at California Pizza Kitchen, the day our lone meebo server almost melted underneath Sandy's desk, and how we've been fortunate to find fantastic people to join our team.