Category: Homeschool
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Travelling With an AI
A guest post from Marion M. As a military brat, I’ve been the kid on some of those interminable road trips, and have hauled my own along on a few all-day treks as well. Travel games are a thing… and this is a very creative one! You can find part one of my unorthodox ways…
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Teaching Art History with an AI
And other unorthodox uses of MidJourney. This started because my son, who is 17 now, and in his senior year of highschool (hybrid homeschooled and community college courses) was very interested in the MidJourney images I was generating. I’ve said from the beginning that this felt as much like a game, as it did making…
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8 Cuts
Progress continues, slowed a little by my dealing with a migraine that took me down this morning. We didn’t really get going until afternoon, and by then it was already more than 100F out there. Slowly, slowly. Patience, and lots of liquid, and then my friend handing me about 32 oz of delicious iced coffee…
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As a Teen in the 21st Century
Mother’s Note: my son, the Little Man, has been homeschooled since July. At the age of 15, he’s quite autonomous, and we have been working together on his curriculum to fulfill requirements and motivate him to learn. One of the things we have gone round and round with is writing essays. I maintain they…
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School at Home
This isn’t going to be a long post, it’s a quick intro to a topic I’ll be blogging on at least once a week going forward. The Little Man is 15 now, and a sophomore, and would like me to let you know that he’s being homeschooled. I talked to him at the beginning…
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Fairy Tales Around the World: An Audiobook List
This is something a little different for me. Fans of my Book Lists know that usually I’m all about the printed word, on paper or electronic. My personal preference is to read, since most audio fiction makes me feel like I’m drowning in molasses. I just read too quickly to listen to fiction in audio.…
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Warp Speed, Full Ahead
I wasn’t busy before. I thought I was, but I was mistaken. I was only playing at being busy. Here in less than a week I’ll have a kid in college, a kid homeschooled, and a kid in middle school. Also, the college kid isn’t driving, so guess who’s playing Driving Miss Ginja Ninja for…
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Boys to Men: A Book List
This list was born out of the list I curated last week, it’s just taken me some time to get my act together and publish this one. This is, as all my lists are, a crowd-sourced list. I posted the question on social media, and took the recommended books to create the list. It’s far…
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Fantastic Schools Debut
I’m very pleased to be able to share with you all that I’ll be appearing at a new blog once a month with an essay, and a book review a few days later. The blog is centered around books about fantasy and science fictional schools and educational processes. L. Jagi Lamplighter and Chris Nuttall will…
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Hydrostatic Skeletons: Or, why don’t we have ten foot tall slugs?
In a recent post I mentioned my childhood battle with slugs, and John in Philly commented, infecting me with the delightful mental image of a small girl holding a ten-foot tall slug at bay with her salt sprayer. So why don’t we have ten-foot slugs? Elephants can get that big. Whales get even bigger, although…
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Day One of Homeschool
We moved recently, as most of you likely know. And I have two teens and a pre-teen in the house. So moving meant changing school districts, because we were unable to find a place to rent in the town we lived in (I’ll rant on that in another post). I didn’t want to do it,…