Janet
20-08-2008, 01:14 PM
General Home Education Resources - Add Yours!
Cyathea
http://homeschoolaustralia.beverleypaine.com/
Beverely Paine has been involved in homeschooling for over 20 years, and there is a wealth of information on her site, tips and ideas for figuring out exactly which approach you want to take, and much more.
this looks helpfull
http://hea.asn.au/resources/disp_res.asp?type=2&id=934
like that it's preloved stuff.. recycling is important : and great for people struggleing with finances.
http://www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/
might be something useful there too
http://www.byronhomeschoolers.com/
http://unschoolkidz.beverleypaine.com/
Waldorf Homeschoolers Resources for Teaching
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/13Q3LLJ333GF5/ref=cm_aya_av.lm_more
special needs tutor
http://www.hea.asn.au/hea/resources/disp_res.asp?type=2&id=662
Book store for Steiner home education
http://www.steiner-australia.org/other/bookshop.html
Ayla
Unschooling Resources:
Unschool Kidz (http://unschoolkidz.beverleypaine.com/) - Australian unschooling ezine
Sandra Dodd's Radical Unschooling (http://sandradodd.com/unschooling) - this is really great! I think all home educators should read her article on Deschooling.
Joyfully Rejoycing (http://www.joyfullyrejoycing.com/) - another great resource for unschoolers
Connections (http://connections.organiclearning.org/Issue0/index.html) - unschooling ezine
Majikfaerie
wow, thanks for those!
here you can read ivan illich's book, deschooling society
http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html (http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html)
and here is John Taylor Gatto's book on the history of education
http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm (http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm)
ThirdArmBabySlingProject
You've been doing your homework
The only additions I can think of are Life Learning magazine (Canadian based) http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/ and The Mother Magazine (www.themothermagazine.co.uk (http://www.themothermagazine.co.uk)) includes radical unschooling, a general natural learning bias, a regular column by an unschooled teen, and previously ran a regular column by a younger home ed child too.
Lowry House Publishers http://lowryhousepublishers.com/ supply The Teenage Liberation Handbook and Real Lives (Eleven teens who do not go to school talk about their lives: the updated edition revisits them ten years on too) , a number of other interesting bits & pieces, and their glorious 'Unschooling t-shirt' (I don't usually like the term 'unschooler' or 'home schooler' but I make an acception for this t-shirt!) - which reads "Unschooler: one who learns from life and love and great books and late morning conversations and big projects and eccentric uncles and mountains and mistakes and volunteering and starry nights syn: homeschooler, self-schooler, autodidact, rise-out"
Also, for teens, check out Camp With Wings near Brisbane http://www.campwithwings.org/, and the Not-Back-To-School-Camp in US (we're thinking of doing a not-school exchange with Aus/US students....)http://nbtsc.org/
ETA: How could I forget, the 4 DVD pack of the Home Education Conference in Aus 2007 - 9 hours or so coverage of John Taylor Gatto, Alan Thomas & Eleanor Sparks. Available from the Home Education Association and priceless at $40!
Miss Caz
For some more inane stuff to keep them busy on a rainy day if your too busy to be there...
http://www.coloring.ws/coloring.html Free colouring pages
The Florida Centre for Reading Research. I use this site constantly. Yes its supposed to be a program but I just pick and choose from the activities that best suit my need and my kids. Might require a full printer ink cartridge and a laminator...but you wont be sorry. The laminator is my friend!!!
http://www.fcrr.org/forTeachers.htm
Lesson plans
http://www.teach-nology.com/
Starfall...an absolute favourite of mine with my lower acheiving kids or early school children. Granted it is american but there is some good stuff there too.
http://www.starfall.com/
Beatrice
For those asking about Alan Thomas, there's an article about his research on informal learning at home here:
http://www.infed.org/biblio/home-education.htm
Sam
Here are two Aussie lists that might be of interest:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OZHSRecycle/
Description
OZ Homeschool Recycle Group was created to provide an opportunity for homeschoolers to help each other by recycling and giving away curriculum, household goods or anything else that might be useful to homeschooling families.
Please note this is not a *CHAT* group. But rather a group to advertise unwanted items that maybe of use to others. Thankyou
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HSFreebiesAus
Description
This is a place to share homeschool resources with other Australian homeschoolers for free - just pay postage!
Most of us have some resources that we are no longer needing, but that other families might find useful. If you're happy to give them away for free, this is the place to list them. The buying family will need to organise to pay for postage, or to come and pick it up if they live close enough.
A great way to declutter your house, help another family and keep useful things out of the rubbish tip!
Cheers
Sam
Cyathea
http://homeschoolaustralia.beverleypaine.com/
Beverely Paine has been involved in homeschooling for over 20 years, and there is a wealth of information on her site, tips and ideas for figuring out exactly which approach you want to take, and much more.
this looks helpfull
http://hea.asn.au/resources/disp_res.asp?type=2&id=934
like that it's preloved stuff.. recycling is important : and great for people struggleing with finances.
http://www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/
might be something useful there too
http://www.byronhomeschoolers.com/
http://unschoolkidz.beverleypaine.com/
Waldorf Homeschoolers Resources for Teaching
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/13Q3LLJ333GF5/ref=cm_aya_av.lm_more
special needs tutor
http://www.hea.asn.au/hea/resources/disp_res.asp?type=2&id=662
Book store for Steiner home education
http://www.steiner-australia.org/other/bookshop.html
Ayla
Unschooling Resources:
Unschool Kidz (http://unschoolkidz.beverleypaine.com/) - Australian unschooling ezine
Sandra Dodd's Radical Unschooling (http://sandradodd.com/unschooling) - this is really great! I think all home educators should read her article on Deschooling.
Joyfully Rejoycing (http://www.joyfullyrejoycing.com/) - another great resource for unschoolers
Connections (http://connections.organiclearning.org/Issue0/index.html) - unschooling ezine
Majikfaerie
wow, thanks for those!
here you can read ivan illich's book, deschooling society
http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html (http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html)
and here is John Taylor Gatto's book on the history of education
http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm (http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm)
ThirdArmBabySlingProject
You've been doing your homework
The only additions I can think of are Life Learning magazine (Canadian based) http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/ and The Mother Magazine (www.themothermagazine.co.uk (http://www.themothermagazine.co.uk)) includes radical unschooling, a general natural learning bias, a regular column by an unschooled teen, and previously ran a regular column by a younger home ed child too.
Lowry House Publishers http://lowryhousepublishers.com/ supply The Teenage Liberation Handbook and Real Lives (Eleven teens who do not go to school talk about their lives: the updated edition revisits them ten years on too) , a number of other interesting bits & pieces, and their glorious 'Unschooling t-shirt' (I don't usually like the term 'unschooler' or 'home schooler' but I make an acception for this t-shirt!) - which reads "Unschooler: one who learns from life and love and great books and late morning conversations and big projects and eccentric uncles and mountains and mistakes and volunteering and starry nights syn: homeschooler, self-schooler, autodidact, rise-out"
Also, for teens, check out Camp With Wings near Brisbane http://www.campwithwings.org/, and the Not-Back-To-School-Camp in US (we're thinking of doing a not-school exchange with Aus/US students....)http://nbtsc.org/
ETA: How could I forget, the 4 DVD pack of the Home Education Conference in Aus 2007 - 9 hours or so coverage of John Taylor Gatto, Alan Thomas & Eleanor Sparks. Available from the Home Education Association and priceless at $40!
Miss Caz
For some more inane stuff to keep them busy on a rainy day if your too busy to be there...
http://www.coloring.ws/coloring.html Free colouring pages
The Florida Centre for Reading Research. I use this site constantly. Yes its supposed to be a program but I just pick and choose from the activities that best suit my need and my kids. Might require a full printer ink cartridge and a laminator...but you wont be sorry. The laminator is my friend!!!
http://www.fcrr.org/forTeachers.htm
Lesson plans
http://www.teach-nology.com/
Starfall...an absolute favourite of mine with my lower acheiving kids or early school children. Granted it is american but there is some good stuff there too.
http://www.starfall.com/
Beatrice
For those asking about Alan Thomas, there's an article about his research on informal learning at home here:
http://www.infed.org/biblio/home-education.htm
Sam
Here are two Aussie lists that might be of interest:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OZHSRecycle/
Description
OZ Homeschool Recycle Group was created to provide an opportunity for homeschoolers to help each other by recycling and giving away curriculum, household goods or anything else that might be useful to homeschooling families.
Please note this is not a *CHAT* group. But rather a group to advertise unwanted items that maybe of use to others. Thankyou
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HSFreebiesAus
Description
This is a place to share homeschool resources with other Australian homeschoolers for free - just pay postage!
Most of us have some resources that we are no longer needing, but that other families might find useful. If you're happy to give them away for free, this is the place to list them. The buying family will need to organise to pay for postage, or to come and pick it up if they live close enough.
A great way to declutter your house, help another family and keep useful things out of the rubbish tip!
Cheers
Sam