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Web Based High School

Tech School: Web-Based High School

In my search for Tech-Based High School resources, I wish I could say that I’ve found “THE ONE!” Alas, I haven’t. What I have found is that the Internet abounds with resources, if you take the time to look. What do you need? My ideal curriculum is found on one

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Tech-Based High School

Tech-Based High School

It’s hard to believe that the first of our “Round 2 Kids” will be a 9th grader next year. A High Schooler. Yikes! And his brother is just a quick two years behind him. It happens so fast. They were just  toddling around my house last week, pulling all the

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Teaching Technology

We have so many options for homeschool curriculum. With homeschooling, the whole world is literally wide open to us. I think about when we first began this homeschooling journey back in 1997, and it amazes me how much has changed since then. Need curriculum? Before, we used paper catalogs. Now,

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Khan Academy is a completely free, online resource for a FULL math curriculum from 1st-college level math. Including video instructional tutorials as well as fantastic diagrams, hints, and tips, this math curriculum is truly all you need for your student.

Math Curriculum Review: Khan Academy

Several years ago I started hearing about these great math tutorial videos that you could watch on YouTube. This guy was posting them and everyone was raving about them. Well okay, maybe not everyone, but he was creating quite a buzz in homeschool circles. I checked out his site a

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Homeschooling for Techies

Technology. It’s everywhere today. A glance around me reveals my laptop, cell phone, and iPod Touch. There is an iPad on the couch, a movie playing through the XBox streaming Netflix on the television, and the Kinect is resting in front of the TV.  All within 8 feet of where

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Testing out Time4Learning Curriculum

Many of you know that my 10-year old son is mildly developmentally delayed on the Autism Spectrum. (A diagnosis! 2 years after I originally wrote this post!) You also know that we are struggling right now, mostly in the area of math. He has been begging me to let him do

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