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wild (but not uncultivated) musings of a Canadian unschool momHome | Archives | contact Schooling Online - A New Experiment For Us2:16 PM - Jan. 16, 2009 - Add to the Wildness
Fact #1: I hate mornings. My younger kids love them. My older kids have to be dragged out of bed. Fact #2: We have an underused family website that pretty much functions as our unschooling portfolio. I'm going to combine the two and see if we can generate a positive effect. The plan is to use the main blog as an assignment launchpad. We can then continue "scrapbooking" online at our homeschool journal. My (possibly naive) hope is that if I make the main blog our browser's homepage, the kids can pull it up in the morning while my brain is still mud and have some fun doing indirectly-directed activities together. As Bill Jack would say, "Buy time. Sell rope." (No, wait, that's out of context. Anyway....) The assignment completion "prizes" will be YouTube videos or the like--maybe some "stealth" education through humour--that the kids can watch on the main blog. We've used YouTube as a successful bribe in the past. (You can see the "Engineer's Guide To" videos have made their way to our webhome.) I'd like to use the Internet more, but I want to know my kids are on sites that are totally safe for them, if I'm too fuzzy or busy to supervise. And, hey, look at that: I have a site I can customize to our schooling style. The desired results: (A) Younger kids' time and energy occupied until mine catches up. (B) Older kids more motivated to get out of bed. (C) Mom (maybe?? sometimes???) gets to wait for the coffee to kick in before having to open the Complaints Bureau, deploy Law Enforcement, call out Animal Rescue, engage the Sanitation Department, deploy Correctional Services for transfer of inmates from the Horizontally Snoring Block to the Vertically Whining Block, etc., etc. If anyone wants to try the activities for themselves and give me feedback on how I can do it better or easier, it would be much appreciated and highly motivating. I'm sure my first few assignment descriptions will need tweaking until I get better at designing the directions. And, hey, if you get good results with the project ideas, post a pic and let me know. I'll let y'all know how it goes. ------------------------------- © Copyright Cathi-Lyn Dyck 2005-2009
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