Podcast and conferences

Kim Campbell will interview me Monday, September 8 on her Relaxed Homeschooler podcast. The show is 90 minutes long. I'll be in the last hour. It starts at 9:30 at my house (mountain standard time) but if you go to the page you'll have an opportunity to get notification and it will know your own time zone. So go there before the day, and again then!

(It's here.)

Two conference appearances are confirmed for 2009 and another couple have been mentioned as possibilities (news as it arrives).

March 7-8, 2009
HENA 2009 Conference
Tempe, Arizona

All my kids will be there, and Pam Sorooshian and all of hers. This is a big deal, never before seen, and probably a once-only happening.

September 10-13, 2009
Good Vibrations Conference
San Diego/Del Mar, California

Flo Gascon's new unschooling conference!

"Unschooling" (the word itself)

What inspired "Unschooling" as a term? I have written a report (with videos and images):
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/theterm

Mindful of Words, housekeeping, "Autodidact"

How important are words? When they're all you've got, they're all-important.
http://sandradodd.com/mindfulofwords

There's a new link on the chores page
http://sandradodd.com/chores
concerning hiring or bartering for housekeeping
http://sandradodd.com/chore/hiredhelp

An unschooling dad (with the help of his daughter) has made a techno/electronica style song called "Autodidact." It's instrumental except for that word. It can be heard or downloaded free from MySpace. There is information and a link here:
http://sandradodd.com/music/autodidact
and a link at the music page
http://sandradodd.com/music

Restrictions, guns, multiplication

A quote from the toy guns page has been added at the bottom left of
http://sandradodd.com/spoiled

Three photos have been added to the "peaceful kids with toy guns" section at the bottom of
http://sandradodd.com/peace/guns

There's a new multiplication story on the times tables page, by Lisa W.
http://sandradodd.com/timestables

Yes, and Winning Images

Jenny C. wrote something about saying "yes" which has been added here:
http://sandradodd.com/yes
(to the left of "My Favorite Word," the green box)

Winners of the Learn Nothing Day image contest

Animal: Mark, at greenraven.blogspot
Mineral: Flo Gascon and Camille Lavallee at sumbthucker.blogspot
Vegetable: Anza Firetail at deviantart
Video: MD and Alex Polikowsky at YouTube

More information is here: http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2008/08/learn-nothing-day-follow-up.html