Category: Education
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Talking about blogging
Sunday I gave a workshop about blogging to a bunch of homeschool parents at the HSC Conference. About half of the people in the room already had blogs; the other half were thinking about it. Some really interesting questions came up regarding what a blog is, why you would do it, who is it for……
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Notes from the conference, day 2
This is my day off at the HSC Homeschooling Conference. Tomorrow I’ll be working again. But until then, I play… I got to hear an inspiring talk by Linda Dobson, who homeschooled back before there was the Internet, even. I have to say, when I think about trying to educate kids with a library card…
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Report from the conference, day 1
One year ago, I had a terribly disappointing experience. I had proposed a few workshops at the HSC Homeschooling Conference in Sacramento, and the one they accepted was a writing workshop for teens. This was going way back into my past as a college English teacher, and I was looking forward to it. I frankly…
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And we're… off! Sorta. Kinda. Getting there.
I declared to my kids a few days ago that our official first day of homeschooling would be next Monday, but somehow today got to be the day. All summer, we’ve been coasting. My daughter has been so into her camps, and my son has been into practicing magic. Neither had any interest in studying…
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Back to homeschool
I’m writing an article for Growing Up in Santa Cruz‘s September issue about what “back to homeschool” means to local homeschooling families, but I didn’t have space to include my own thoughts on that. So here they are…. Back to homeschool means realizing that summer is almost over and we still haven’t had a single…