Home Education UK

The Home Education Network for the UK and Beyond

Support, encouragement and virtual community for home educators in the UK

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein

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Currclick holiday sale!

   Have you seen the Christmas decorations up in town? Have you been stocking up on special holiday foods and gift wrap yet? Well, here is one more holiday sale - but this time for your homeschool!

   Currclick do instantly downloadable ebooks of Home ed curriculum and resources. If you do pop over to take a look please consider clicking on the Currclick box in the sidebar as that is our affiliate link and we get a small commision on your order if you do. Thanks - Deedee

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Hey everyone! The Learning A-Z website is doing their FREE 7 day trial membership to their sites again. Here are the details below. It is a great time to check out the sites and see if you want to subscribe or even just to get a few downloads while they are FREE! Enjoy! - Deedee

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Calling all young writers...

I have just been in touch with this lady who is hoping to get this message out to all home edders...

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Sarah

Message:

I am launching a competition open to home-educated children and young people only. To enter the competition, you need to produce a story about bullying.
Your story may be told in any one of the following 3 formats:
a) a written story
b) a film
c) a comic strip
Whichever format you choose, you must be able to send it to me in digital form, either by e-mail (writing and comic strips) or on a DVD rom (films).

All work submitted will be made public on a website in Anti-Bullying Week (November 16 to 20), unless you wish your work not to be shown, which is fine.
I am in the process of finding judges and prizes, so will let people know more about those when I have arranged them!
If you are interested, contact me as soon as possible for an application form and more details.
Ali    ali@yggdrasil.org.uk    

Fanfare competition

The Royal Opera House is looking for a young person aged 11-14 to write a fanfare.  You can find out more here http://www.roh.org.uk/education/schoolsandteachers/fanfare.aspx?utm medium=fanfare& emailsource= 4270&utm_ campaign=education& utm_source= fanfare
 or here http://www.numu.org.uk/fanfare/.

The closing date is 12 February 2010.

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Sarah

Road Safety Week 23-29th November

Road Safety Week 2009 takes place 23-29 November.

If you go to www.roadsafetyweek.org you will find plenty of information about the week and how you can be involved.  There is an educators section where it is possible to order a free poster pack and to find detailed ideas on teaching about road safety.

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Sarah

 

Welcome to Home Education UK

The "Home Education UK" network is a community resource to help, support and encourage you in your home education, with a forum, groups, a profile page where you can blog, post photos, videos, music and more.

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Introductions

Things you can do now:  post an introduction, write a blog, post photos & videos, personalise your page, join a group, post questions or discussions in the Forum, and say hello to other… Continue

Created by Shoshana Sep 2, 2009 at 6:27pm. Last updated by Shoshana Sep 4.

Latest Activity

trisha and Naomi Lever are now friends
yesterday
Helen Rattray added a discussion to the group Single Parents
As from 2 November 2009 child benefit is no longer counted as an income when applying for housing and council tax benefits.
yesterday
Jenny Lantz Spent the morning going by bike to visit a middleage church nearby. With paintings of Albertus Pictor and a wonderful clocktower!
on Wednesday
nicky gave a gift to sharon harrison
From the Gift Store
on Tuesday
Zoe Leanne Curling and Janette are now friends
on Tuesday
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on Monday
jaylieanne hale and Mandy G are now friends
on Monday
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Andrea St.Clair which have esp fabulous colours right now.
on Monday
Andrea St.Clair And that you see my reply! I'd a lovely day, including dancing through Autumn leaves in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens
on Monday
Andrea St.Clair Hope I'm putting this in the right place!
on Monday
Andrea St.Clair Thanks for the birthday messages - how nice.
on Monday
does anybody in this group go to the southend meeting ? and what time does it start many thanks sally
on Monday
on Sunday
A contact point for people living in and around Derbyshire
on Sunday
I just wanted to say what a warm welcome MamaSmurf gave me. Her warm personality shone through. I know she is at peace now. Sarah
on Sunday
I thought that, rather than inundating Chrissy's page with comments (which each send an e-mail), it would be nice to post tributes here.
on Sunday
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Forum

Lindy

GCSE 8 Replies

Started by Lindy in Teaching Methods and Learning Styles. Last reply by Lynda Oct 27.

Shoshana

Introductions 19 Replies

Started by Shoshana in Miscellaneous. Last reply by Victoria Turner Oct 20.

Shoshana

Audio Story tapes & CDs 5 Replies

Started by Shoshana in Suppliers. Last reply by Naomi Lever Oct 19.

brendan gavin

the new rule on he 10 Replies

Started by brendan gavin in Teaching Methods and Learning Styles. Last reply by nicky Oct 17.

brendan gavin

letter for de-registration 4 Replies

Started by brendan gavin in Subject Discussion. Last reply by nicky Oct 15.

Blog Posts

Lou

An Interesting Activity for Our Children

Hi All,

For once I'm off my political soap-box and just posting something I find interesting and helpful.

I teach yoga to children aged 0-7 years and strongly believe in the necessity of mediation in our lives.

I feel that children are not given enough opportunities for down time in a world filled with noise and distraction. We offer t.v., books,and computer activity as a way to wind down but how centred and relaxed do these activities really make our children?

How many of us adults stay up… Continue

Posted by Lou on October 23, 2009 at 11:11am

Christopher

Homeschooling War in Sweden

As some of you may know we here in Sweden are in the midst of a fierce battle with the government which is trying to ban homeschooling. I have created a webpage detailing this as well as writing a book (in English) which may perhaps be of use to some of you. I am thinking of writing a response to the Badman Report too.… Continue

Posted by Christopher on September 28, 2009 at 12:47pm

Mandy G

The Fed-Up Homeschooler's Wish List

We got a link on facebook today, from one of our homeschooling friends in America, to a couple of homeschool related youtube videos. This of course led to one of those 'shall we just watch that one too' half hours...! - Which in turn led to us finding this -( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1z_zMtofvY&feature=related ) It's quite long and runs a bit fast (we had to pause it on the bits to read) but there are some gems in there - "Don't ask my kid if she wouldn't rather go to school un… Continue

Posted by Mandy G on September 20, 2009 at 8:37am

Experimental Technology... give me a moment!

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Little Bears

Technoschoolers part 2

OK, so following on from my previous post, I have been surfing the web and following rabbit-trails on technology and education.

Take a look at the following video, and consider these questions: are the issues being raised in the video relevant to home education or not (and if not, why not), if they are relevant, how do we address them?  If our children are learning autonomously, how does that figure in - how and where do we draw the boundaries, keep them safe, ensure that if they choose to game, facebook, blog, twitter or whatever (and apologies to conservative grammatists there for my verbal use of 'game' and 'facebook' there!), that they are getting something educational out of it or should we be encouraging a balance between all this and learning in more traditional ways?


Technoschoolers

We've been amazingly busy of late, and I've been encouraged to get blogging again.

The UK is currently in the throes of what amounts to a very biased government review of Home Education law, and one of the questions that has been thrown into the pot is what is a suitable education for the 21st century.

I've been having an interesting conversation online with a real-life friend of mine who is a 'learning technologist'.  She believes - with a passion - that today's schools prepare children perfectly for life - in the 1890s! She also believes that what is needed is technology, and lots of it! To be specific, social media - Web 2.0 collaborative learning & networking technologies, and among the best of these she suggests the following:

- YouTube
- Animoto
- Blogs
- Twitter
- wikis

Of course, homeschoolers in the US and home educators in the UK are already well connected through things like yahoo groups, curriculum forums, and the newer Ning communities such as the Homeschool Lounge, the Home Ed UK Network and so on.

But something I've been working on lately has been to try and encourage the home educated children themselves to get involved with collaborative projects such as wikis (I particularly like wetpaint).

As and when I get round to it, I'll try and re-do my links to include some of the social networks that I find most interesting and helpful.

But I'd also like to add a couple of resources to the 'must-have' list of learning technologies:

- VoiceThread
- Piknik

I've also heard good things about

- Moodle and
- Elluminate

but I'm not sure how appropriate these would be for children who are learning at home autonomously (as most UK home educators do), I would need to investigate further how these can be used.

I'm interested to know other people's views on technology, and what might constitute an education that would prepare children who are studying now and in the 2010s for life in the 2020s, 2030s and beyond.

And which technologies do you consider to be crucial, interesting or useful?

And next time, I promise to try and up-date you about exactly what it is we've been doing and where we've been going!

 

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