Homeschooling with Technology
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How to Create Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games
Episode 50: How to Create Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games Here are 3 different resources students can use to create online choose-your-own-adventure games. - 1. Text Adventures - Text Adventures actually has 3 different options to create...
PHET Science Simulations
Episode 49: PHET Science Simulations with Kristin Moon Today's interview is with Kristin Moon from Kristin Moon Science and the topic is PHET Science Simulations. You can also follow her on Facebook. - Why use simulations -
Web-based Unit Studies
Episode 48: Web-based Unit Studies - Web-based unit studies are NOT simply pdfs instead of physical books, but rather interactive and accessed through an online classroom. - What are web-based unit studies? mini online self-paced classes -
Fanschool games – bringing the fun of fantasy sports to education
Episode 47: Fanschool - bringing the fun of fantasy sports to education with Eric Nelson Eric Nelson first created Fanschool games when he was a teacher and he played it with his classes. A few years ago he put it online - and now your family can enjo...
Using technology to improve writing
Episode 46: Using technology to improve writing Here are the tools mentioned in the episode that can be used by your children to improve writing skills. - 1. Grammarly - 2. Hemingway app - 3. The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator - - 4.
Free online government and civics games
Episode 45: Free online government and civics games - These are the free online government and civics games mentioned in this episode. Most of them are geared to middle and high school students but elementary students can enjoy some of them too.
Online resources to help you select curriculum
Episode 44: Online resources to help you select curriculum In this episode, we look at 6 steps to use online resources to help you select curriculum that is a good fit for your child. - Please refer to episode 36 - Tips for buying and selling curricu...
Unplugged Coding
Episode 43: Unplugged Coding with Sandra Balisky - Be sure to join our Facebook group where we carry on the discussion about Homeschooling with Technology. - Sandra Balisky from Real World Learners is our guest today.
Online Tools for Photography
Episode 42: Online Tools for Photography with Piers van der Merwe - - Piers is not only my husband, but also the photography teacher at FundaFunda Academy. You can see his work at Onstandby Travel and on Smugmug.
Explore cities with digital scavenger hunts
Episode 41: Explore cities with digital scavenger hunts - - My oldest daughter, Rachel, suggested I do an episode on this as she and I have enjoyed a number of Digital Scavenger Hunts together. Rachel teaches the Visual Literacy class for FundaFun...