Joanette Aponte Yunqué has translated the Certificate of Empowerment into Spanish.
http://sandradodd.com/empowerment/certificado
http://sandradodd.com/certificado
The original, with notes and links and Chevy-on-a-Stick:
http://sandradodd.com/empowerment
What about socialization? Finally, a page about that oft-asked question:
http://sandradodd.com/socialization/
The movie is still being finished, but those who contributed to the startup funding will receive their advance bonus DVDs soon. When the final movie is done, it will definitely be announced here! And I'm hoping to get a chance to put the raw interviews up where can see them at the Good Vibrations Conference in a couple of weeks, too!
Spanking Makes Kids Lie
(and has been known to make parents lie, too)
http://sandradodd.com/s/lying
(an older page, refurbished because it's one of the links in the book)
New piece on "Change," by Shan Burton
http://sandradodd.com/change
Similar accounts to those about the changing effect unschooling has on lives are at the "getting it" link at the bottom of that page.
That's a Holly-self-portrait at the right. It's all one image.
The beginnings of a new index page on Words. When I have the art done, I'll bring that too, but I'm working on a book this week, not on art.
http://SandraDodd.com/words
(the photo is not the word art I plan to do; click it to see me in Wales)
Melissa Dietrick's curriculum, in Italian
http://sandradodd.com/curriculum/italy
Melissa is living in Italy, and has Italian-speaking children, and has shared what she created and translated for use there.
This is a new announcement of something a year old, but that's fine. I only just knew about it recently.
I had a request to write about mathematics for a German magazine, and sent it off and didn't hear about it for a while. Apparently the paper copy went astray, that they sent, and I was waiting patiently. Or rather I was busily distracted and forgot about it.
http://sandradodd.com/math (upper right)
http://sandradodd.com/math/unerzogen
Those lead to links to the publication's website, and the German version in PDF. It was translated by Niki Lambrianidou.
I also have the book cover complete, and the book almost so, with help thusfar from Keith and Holly Dodd, Jill Parmer and Robin Bentley. Holly has done the cover layout. I took some of the photos, did some of the hand art, and she did the photoshop magic to make it whole.
Follow-up on the London Unschooling Conference:
Schuyler's presentation on The Wonderful World of Television
http://sandradodd.com/schuyler/tv
A clarification of a story I didn't finish telling, and responses to questions on 3x5 cards from conference attendees:
http://sandradodd.com/musicroom
Schuyler took the photo, outside of a water mill we visited last week near Holt, in Norfolk.
Amy Kidwell let me quote her on my yes page, but there wasn't a good place for her quote where it couldn't get lost, and so this is what the Yes page looks like now:
http://sandradodd.com/yes
CHATS, and I'll list today's as a sample, but there are two a week, and could be more if there were enough interest.
The chatroom password is goodidea
and the chatroom itself is SandraDodd.com/room
MONDAY CHAT
also known as "too early Tuesday chat" in some parts of the world, and as ten-to-midnight-chat in the U.K.
Maybe this time if there aren't pressing needs, I'd like to talk about the more serious core of unschooling—how it works, and what the principles are.
Two hours, beginning:
Pacific: 2:00 pm Monday
Mountain: 3:00 pm
Central: 4:00 pm
Eastern: 5:00 pm
England: 10:00 pm Monday
Pune, India: 2:30 am Tuesday
Naranara, NSW: 7:00 am Tuesday
New Zealand: 9:00 am Tuesday
The back cover of the book is finished; Holly made it and sent it to me.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2009/07/holly-sent-back-cover-for-book.html
I've added over 20 pages to the random page generator, and then I broke it two different ways, so if you tried it and it didn't work, I think it's working again.
http://sandradodd.com/random
I'm in England staying with Schuyler Waynforth and her family. I'm collecting photographic trivia here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com
(If you come across this and it's not July 2009 anymore, check there in the blog archives.)
Being your child's partner even in the face of special education programs
http://sandradodd.com/special/program
"What exactly is unschooling? I thought it was another name for homeschooling."
http://sandradodd.com/kellylovejoy/whatisunschooling
Learn Nothing Day has been criticized again.
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/critics
I love when that happens. I didn't mean for it to be a trap for outsiders. I meant for it to be a fun trap for INsiders!
If any of you see any natural, candid criticism out there of Learn Nothing Day, please leave a link below or e-mail me. Thanks!
If you'd like to put a link to that page on your blog or site, you can lift the code with logo here:
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/images
More on Piaget and what toddlers can't yet learn by Pam Sorooshian:
http://sandradodd.com/piaget
(bottom left)
Alex Polikowsky and the huge manure pit (down at the bottom)
http://sandradodd.com/no
(the bottom of the page, not of the huge manure pit—eeyew)
So I'm workin' on this book, and generally I'm summarizing or quoting from a page and then putting the page address in case the readers want to put down the book and go to the website for more information. It turns out I didn't have a page on particular unschooling terminology. There's not much of it! But whereas most of the book will be the website in book form, this page is the book in website form. (One small part of it, anyway.)
http://sandradodd.com/terminology
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
http://sandradodd.com/piaget
I made a page from an unschooling point of view; it's worth knowing but it's not worth making a religion about.
On the page about public school on your own terms, I've added a note (in a box, halfway down on the right). That article is twelve years old, in September, and I wanted to note some changes in my awareness.
http://sandradodd.com/schoolchoice
Typical day (though it was at night)
http://sandradodd.com/day/robynnight
(The photo is Kirby and Marty, in Austin, a few days ago. They are 22 and 20 years old. There's a shadow behind them that looks a little like a dirty halo.)
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