So another 3am late night finishing the 15 minute radio show which took days to do, days!!! The final version was no where near good enough - with several dodgy segment links and some volume issues. However at least having a deadline made me stop tinkering. Blackshipradioshow by loumcgill So our show is a pirate [...]
My son (14) is particpating in the ds106 course alongside me as part of his home learning activities. he is currently not into having a blog, or ressurecting his old one so for now I will post any contributions that he wants to share with everyone. He was, at first, resistant to doing an animated [...]
We are about to join a MOOC (massive open online course) as one of our home learning experiments. The course is run by Jim Groom for his students at UMW University of Mary Washington but he has made it open and global. I became aware of the Summer of Oblivion Digital Storytelling course [...]
I recently contributed a post for purpos/ed (which is about opening a debate around education) with my partner and son which I hope offered a voice for people outside the formal education system. I think we questioned that system and presented one view from the home education/home learning perspective and also from the perspetive of [...]
we had an unusual and very nice surprise this week from a stranger. We received a copy of a book from Amazon that we don't already have and that we didn't order. It was 'My name is Mina' by David Almond. It came with a message saying: 'found your blog recently. Thought you would like [...]
>I've been away for a while - trying to focus only on what I have to. Lots happening and will do a catch up post soon... However I am moved to write today following the ridiculous media and government response to the court case about the awful death of 7 year old Khyra Ishaq. A [...]
> we are now really immersed in the home learning and are trying a new routine where each day we do one hour of intense one to one work followed by one hour of self-directed learning. The rest of the time tends to be flexible and of course home learning happens all the time wherever [...]
I was on the verge of starting a few new blogs - one for my photography, one for the home learning and one for my education consultancy work... but wait a minute - that was the old lou (the librarian who wanted to classify and compartmentalise her life)... so I've decided to stick with this [...]
We're off 'doon the water' as they say in Glasgow. We've had an offer accepted on a house in Dunoon, which is in Argyll and Bute on the West coast of Scotland. We are all fairly excited but it isn't planned to happen until the end of May. This allows enough time to sell our [...]
> frozen in time It feels like we are coming out of hibernation... So much has happened that I don't have time to do write it all down, but I think we're coming back to the blogging and soon to the home education... laurie is due to start secondary school this year and it has [...]
>been a while... we had a holiday last week - a few days out and visits and lots of home time. nice... school update... still no response from the education services since I wrote a letter asking them how we go about getting a "co-ordinated support plan" (new laws in Scotland mean that we need [...]
>the home education officer came today Laurie and I were a bit fab today. I'd written out our philosophy - child centred, informal, indpendent learning and holistic approach. In my usual anal way I'd written a bloody report!!! It listed each subject, the resources and the related activities. Resources included tv computer games, internet, books, [...]
