Friends, I have seen the future of our learning at home and I like it.
Now that my children are getting older, I want to use the Internet more to our advantage. I have my Delicious bookmarks account that I’ve been using to hold sites I find for my children, but that always felt awkward to me. I didn’t want the kids to have to wade through my personal bookmarks to find what they needed. I thought of using email, but they don’t have email accounts yet. (Does my 8 year old need gmail? I’m going to go with No.) I thought of writing down the website addresses on scraps of paper, but that seemed too cumbersome.
Thankfully, I found a website that solves the problem.
At findingeducation.com, you set up a “classroom” to give “assignments” to your students/children. You can tag assignments by grade and subject and make “due by” dates. If you blog with WordPress, you will feel comfortable right from the start with how the site works. (I’m not sure it’s run on WordPress, but it looks eerily similar.) I’m not too keen on the labels (classroom, subjects or due dates), but since that’s the language of the rest of the world, those of us with a nontraditional approach to homeschooling will just have to ignore that part.
This is my findingeducation.com classroom. So far, I have one lesson posted for my baking-crazy preteen.
I’ll be posting links of educational interest for my kids; feel free to poke around my site. Let me know if you make a classroom too. There are no comments, which I love. No way for spammers to come and stalk my kids. There is a built-in search engine that looks promising.
I’ll let you know how how my kids respond to this virtual way of helping them pursue their interests and our learning at home.
Does any one else think the future has arrived?
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Very cool! Love that there is no room for comments, too. Thanks for sharing.
Wow how neat is that. Learn something new everyday for sure. Ill have to keep this link for when mine get a little older. Can you keep the same classroom and assignments for years or do they get marked as being “done” when they are finished? Can you unmark them? So many questions
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Khourtniey, I’m not sure. I’m thinking you have to delete them from the archives yourself. We don’t do due by assignments but I’ll probably play with the classroom to see how it works. It’s free so you may want to play around with the site yourself to see how it can best be used in your homeschooling.