Homeschooling with Technology

Guest Natalie Vaughn has just graduated from high school and she shares the tech skills she is glad she learned and how they helped her.

Be sure to listen to my interview with Natalie last week when she shared her favorite high school apps and the interview I did with her last summer as part of the Techie Teen series where she talked about her job as a virtual assistant.

Natalie helped me write a 10-part blog series on preparing your homeschooled teen for college

Here are the 7 tech skills Natalie is glad she learned.

Teens learn many of these skills in FundaFunda’s Computer Applications class

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Natalie Vaughn, who is newly graduated, shares with us the apps for high school students, she found the most useful.

Listen to the interview I did with her last summer as part of the Techie Teen series where she talked about her job as a virtual assistant.

Natalie helped me write a 10-part blog series on preparing your homeschooled teen for college and shared lots of useful advice based on her own experience.

Teens can learn to use some of these tools and many other applications in FundaFunda’s Computer Applications class

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Need some ideas on how to use tech for road trips in a productive way with your children?

1. For Entertainment

If everyone has a device some ideas:

For On-the-go Problem Solving

** Last week to sign up your high schooled homeschoolers for show sponsor FundaFunda Academy’s High School Challenge – a unique contest where your students learn valuable skills AND win money and gift card prizes at the same time.

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In this episode, guest Rachel van der Merwe, discusses how to use movies in your homeschool. Rachel is Assistant professor of media studies at the University of Groningen and FundaFunda’s teacher of the “I Spy: A Course in Visual Literacy” online class.

Rachel starts off talking about Movies vs Documentaries – listen in for her interesting perspective.

Some specific content areas we cover and the movies mentioned are:

History movies – Newsies

Geography movies – Michael Palin’s videos

English – Movies based on books (eg Shakespeare plays by Kenneth Branagh and Akira Kurosawa.

Music / Art – Eroica (Beethoven), Amadaues , Agony and Ecstasy, Fantasia

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Denise Thomas from Get Ahead of the Class has created an app with the same name to help parents and teens navigate the college application process.

The app is free and available on iPhone and Android.

You can start using it from middle school up. It will help students know what to expect when they apply to colleges and will help them learn how to pay for college without ending up in a lot of debt.

Listen to the episode to find out more about what is in the app. Be sure not to miss the tip at the end about the one feature in the app you don’t want to miss!

Don’t forget to sign up your homeschooled high schoolers for sponsor FundaFunda’s annual summer High School Challenge for homeschoolers in rising 9th – 12th grade. This contest gamifies the learning and offers gift card rewards – as well as an overall cash prize.

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Host: Meryl Van de Merva | Podcast: Homeschooling with Technology

Welcome!

These games offer stories where players make choices that shape the narrative. Traditionally available as books, they are now accessible as online games. Meryl recalls playing a text-based version called Adventure Game in her youth—and many similar options are still available today.

This episode explores the benefits of using Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games as part of your homeschool and gives some specific examples of some you can use.

In a previous podcast episode, I shared ways your children can create their own Choose Your Own Adventure game

To start with – homeschool parents here is one you can “play” – Choose Your Own Homeschool High School Adventure is an interactive slideshow to help both new and veteran homeschoolers with topics relating to homeschooling high schoolers.

1. Reading practice

2. Practice making decisions

3. Encourages critical thinking

4. Allows students to apply what they have learned

5. Creates discussion around a topic

6. Creates empathy

7. A creative way of learning new material or reviewing

Don’t forget to sign up your homeschooled high schoolers for sponsor FundaFunda’s annual summer High School Challenge for homeschoolers in rising 9th – 12th grade. This contest gamifies the learning and offers gift card rewards – as well as an overall cash prize.

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While you might be wishing your children stayed off teach this vacation, let me share some ideas for using tech for summer learning that might change your mind.

1. Clio – shows historical sites near your locations

1. Games that require communication eg Overcooked

1. Youtube tutorials – listen to the episode 157: Technology and Handicrafts

Don’t forget to sign up your homeschooled high schoolers for sponsor FundaFunda’s annual summer High School Challenge for homeschoolers in rising 9th – 12th grade. This contest gamifies the learning and offers gift card rewards – as well as an overall cash prize.

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Linsey Knerl, author of Homeschool Hacks: How to Give Your Kid a Great Education without Losing Your Job (or Your Mind.) shares her top Homeschool Tech Hacks with us in this episode.

Linsey starts by answering the following questions:

This is the technology she recommends for homeschooling parents:

Linsey finishes the interview by talking about how to create boundaries with technology today.

You can find Lindsey on her blog, on Twitter @LKnerl and Instagram @LKnerl

Don’t forget to sign up your homeschooled high schoolers for sponsor FundaFunda’s annual summer High School Challenge for homeschoolers in rising 9th – 12th grade. This contest gamifies the learning and offers gift card rewards – as well as an overall cash prize.

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Guest Adeola Ariyo from Next Genpreneur shares tech knowledge teens need to run a business.

What tech should teens know how to use to run a business?

Listen to the episode to hear Adeola expand on each of these areas.

You can find Adeola at her website, Next Genpreneur, and on Facebook and Instagram.

Don’t forget to sign up your homeschooled high schoolers for sponsor FundaFunda’s annual summer High School Challenge for homeschoolers in rising 9th – 12th grade. This contest gamifies the learning and offers gift card rewards – as well as an overall cash prize.

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Veldorah Rice from Write From the Heart is our guest in this episode and explains how writing on the computer can help kids write better. Be sure to also listen to her episodes on best practices for internet research.

This is the outline of what is covered in this episode.

I. Different types of Writers

II. Computer eliminates distractions

III. Computer allows for development and organization

IV. Computer invites collaboration

V. Computer allows expansion and interdisciplinary learning

–> Grab a free copy of Activities for Reluctant Writers

Be sure to take a look at the English classes (including AP classes) Veldorah offers for middle and high schoolers. You can also find Veldorah on Facebook and Instagram.

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