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Stanford Engineering Offers Free online courses

SEE (Stanford Engineering Everywhere) is offering free online courses for anyone, everywhere. The program is being funded by Sequoia Capital Silicon Valley venture capital firm that also helped launch Google, Nvidia, Yahoo, and others. As of right now there are 10 engineering courses and the plan is to expand the School of Engineering courses to include bioengineering, energy/ environments, and nanotechnology. These free courses are also being released through a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license which means you are free to share this information with others as long as you are not profiting from it. You do not have to … Continue reading →

Tips for Lengthy Assignments

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My past couple of articles have focused on being a more effective student. I have been giving you some tips on how to better manage your studies and courses of work. In those articles I have looked at getting organized and setting priorities for yourself. I will now take a look into how to complete assignments. Many assignments in higher level education are lengthy. They require more time and effort than overnight would allow. Many teachers and professors assign work, papers, and projects that are not due for days or weeks. Some college professors give an assign on the first … Continue reading →

Planning Your College Course Schedule

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When creating your college schedule of courses you have much more freedom than you likely did with your high school schedule. In most high schools, you choose the courses that you wish to take and a high school counselor fits them into a schedule. You have no control over which period you will get a course. However college is a little different. While classes can get full and close, you still have some control over what days and which times you take a course. Some courses are offered in the daytime and at night. Some offered two days and week … Continue reading →

You Call That Homeschooling? Part Two

About six months ago, Valorie wrote a blog called You Call That Homeschooling. It’s excellent. Go read it. Well some messages from the last couple of days have me in a place where I am defending my mode of homeschooling. While it is a bit odd to turn someone else’s post into a series, this discussion was only fitting to put under the same category. If you read my post from this morning, Homeschool Resource Review: The Masters Academy of Fine Arts, then you know that someone has challenged the way I homeschool my kids as not really counting as … Continue reading →

Distance Learning Homeschool Programs Oa-RA

In my post on hybrid homeschooling, I talked about combining homeschooling with distance learning or local classes. Here continues the list of Distance Learning Programs you can use. Oak Meadow School is a Waldorf-style curriculum program for preschool through high school. The school is fully accredited which will make it easy to transfer credits. Oak Meadow offers a diverse choice of programs and promises to meet each family’s unique needs, including printed, or online. Enrollment costs start at $1000.00 a year depending on the chosen program. Online School for Young Shluchim is an online school strictly for Jewish children. While … Continue reading →

Free College Level Classes

With two kids in high school in the fall, I’m starting to think about college credits. We’re probably going to be in that middle area when it comes to loans and grants. Too poor to pay their tuition outright, too wealthy (ha!) to quality for financial aid. Of course I have hopes that there will be scholarships, but since I don’t really want my daughters leaving home to go away to college, the opportunities will be a little more limited. Our state has a program for high schoolers to take community college classes in their junior and senior years. That’s … Continue reading →

What Classes Do Homeschool Mothers Have the Hardest Time Teaching?

A question was asked in the Forums, what classes do homeschool mothers have the hardest time teaching. The purpose for asking the question was to hopefully help homeschoolers through online tutoring. While I have used tutors in my homeschool journey with great success, I do not know that I would hire a tutor I cannot see, unless they are using some awesome software and perhaps via webcam. It would definitely have to be an awesome and impressive program. However, it was the actual question that I want to address. Homeschool Mothers, I would say, have the most trouble-teaching subjects that … Continue reading →

Homeschool Glossary (words homeschoolers should know) – D-E

Diagnostic Testing – To determine your child’s strengths and weaknesses, you will want to administer diagnostic testing. You can secure diagnostic tests from different curriculum providers, and online sources. You also have the option of having a question and answer session, with your child and other creative means to determining what your child knows, and needs to learn. Dual enrollment– When a high school student is also enrolled in college while also receiving credits high school from a single class or classes, they are dual enrolled. This program is often used by advanced high school students. Homeschoolers may also utilize … Continue reading →

Is a GED necessary?

Does a homeschool graduate need a GED (General Equivalency Diploma) in order to be a “real” graduate? Is a homeschool diploma considered a legitimate diploma? There was a time, back in the dark ages of homeschooling (when only a few courageous pioneers were bravely bucking the system) that most of what was done by homeschoolers was deemed illegitimate, including bestowing on them a “homemade diploma.” I remember being in that camp myself, laughing at what I thought were the backward, uninformed few who wanted to keep their children behind closed doors. (I was a teenager at the time, who knew … Continue reading →

Homeschooling Week in Review January 22- January 28, 2007

It has been a busy house here are the homeschool blog at families.com. Here is what we have been up to: Monday January 22, 2007 We started the week talking about homeschooling for others and hiring homeschoolers with I Want to Homeschool Your Child, I Want You to Homeschool My Child, and Homeschool Tutors must Manage Expectations, by yours truly (Andrea Hermitt). Karen Edmisten wrote Read-alouds: The best and biggest benefit, which speaks to the benefits of reading aloud to children. This article was part of a series on read-alouds started the previous week. Learning with Food Network by Karen … Continue reading →