Whether your homeschooler is looking for challenging coursework or deciding on a college to attend this fall, she will have a new online research tool from a familiar website. YouTube has created a new EDU ‘channel’ to help organize university content, making it even easier to find the information your homeschooler needs. There are well [...]
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Key Homeschool Strategy: Make Learning Fun!
Posted by ginac on May 18th, 2009
First, I want to start by noting that the overall strategy of our homeschool ‘curriculum’ is to make learning fun. We can teach some pretty advanced concepts to our young learner if we engage his natural curiosity through play. Our philosophy is that if a student has trouble learning a concept, it is because the [...]
Free Software For Schools E-Book
Posted by ginac on May 4th, 2009
I am a huge fan of open source products, and find many compete quite favorably with commercial offerings. Because open source software is either inexpensive or free, students can obtain multitudes of new tools that they otherwise could not afford. To my delight, I recently discovered a free e-book entitled Free Software for Schools by [...]
