After 120 days of officially homeschooling for 2020-21, I realized we needed to upgrade our record keeping. Depending on state laws and local public schools,…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Education
Teaching and learning.
Learning Management System (LMS) design must address the needs of three (or more) user audiences, including: teachers, students, administrators, and sometimes guardians. Blackboard dominates the…
Blackboard Learn Ultra is not Blackboard, at least not the familiar Blackboard Learning Management System I’ve used for many years. Though the changes might seem…
Workbook publishers, you have made my life difficult as a homeschooling parent. We purchase perforated workbooks so we can remove pages and give them one…
We made it to day 90, the half-way point for the 180-day standard curriculum maps. Following the Texas standards and Common Core, which mostly overlap,…
Homeschooling requires a lot of energy. Unfortunately, I’m exhausted. Working as a college instructor and on other projects, along with homeschooling both daughters, leaves me…
Our daughters are now on track, having caught up with both Common Core and Texas standards as of this week. Understand that such standards are…
Screen time wasn’t working well for our daughters, so we’ve migrated back to worksheets, composition books, and physical textbooks for the majority of their school…
Our daughters and I assembled a simple Windows computer for them to use for homeschooling tasks. We haven’t had a Windows system for many years…
Grade-level expectations and academic achievement took a backseat to “treading water” after March 13, 2020, according to my colleagues in K12. It was hard enough…