http://www.whataboutsocialization.com Living, playing and homeschooling in the Chicago suburbs. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:53:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I've been gathering together a couple of resources for the co-op's PE program in the fall. One of the other board members, who taught public school in her pre-homeschooling-mama life, passed along her early 1980s college textbook on the subject, in hopes that I might be able to ... http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/06/22/that-clears-everything-right-up/ The next installment of our Warning: Science in Progress! video blog is finally ready. This one was a blast to put together, not least because we are sporting our brand-new lab coats from American Science and Surplus. In this episode, we demonstrate the use of a capacitor using a simple circuit ... http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/05/28/science-in-progress-2-the-circuit-that-would-not-die/ This afternoon Lydia announced that she had found some grammatical errors on a Wikipedia page, and so had gone in to edit the page to correct them. Since her grammar kung fu has always been quite strong, it was no shock that she was able to spot the errors, or ... http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/05/02/discovering-the-wiki-in-wikipedia/ As I talked about earlier, Lydia and I are working on learning electronics together using the Arduino programmable microcontroller. Here's the first episode of our video blog, in which Lydia demonstrates the "hello world" of electronic circuits: The Blinking LED. http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/04/17/warning-science-in-progress-episode-1-arduino-blinks-into-existence/ I'm so excited! I've been working with a small group of women on a new co-op to start in Fall 2008. And it's all starting to come together! We have a get-to-know-us event coming up that ought to be fun-- making Artist Trading Cards. Website is still getting ... http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/04/16/the-community-co-op/ Lydia and I have started working on electronics together. I've finally got a decent kit of materials together: a collection of basic components as well as an Arduino programmable microcontroller. My goal is to help her understand the way electronic things work, to help her become a maker and not ... http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/04/14/science/ (My Great (x3) Grandfather McKinney in the Civil War) For the last week or so, I've been ditching the schooltime classical music in favor of a bunch of Smithsonian Folkways recordings. Woody Guthrie & Mahalia Jackson are every bit as important as Puccini. More relevant, too, since we're studying ... http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/04/10/random-braindump/ (our snowy backyard) I'm really ready for spring. How about you? http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/02/16/impatient/ I was poking around online looking for some more information about the standardized tests that one of the local homeschool groups is administering this year, when I ran across these gems: "Although [these test] scores are very helpful for professionals, nonprofessionals can confuse them with IQ scores, so they are generally ... http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/02/03/damned-amateurs/ So today involved emotional breakdowns, the Powerpuff Girls, and Nintendo DS. And not much else. Why are you laughing again? http://www.whataboutsocialization.com/2008/01/09/8/