cake, paradigm shifts and Joyce-logic

Ratings of Things you Put on a Birthday Cake (fun site; once you're there, poke around a bit).

I added that to my cake site:
https://sandradodd.com/cake

More on "Getting It" and making the shift to unschooling is here:
https://sandradodd.com/unschool/gettingit

and more of Joyce's refreshingly stunning logic, in response to some more-clever-than-usual anti-TV arguments:
https://sandradodd.com/joyce/logic

Thanks, Kelly Lovejoy, for sending those last two exchanges. They're great.

The word on the lyrics game at the moment is drum (drum/drums/drumming).
https://lyricsgame.blogspot.com

rules, nations, lyrics

Some thoughts about rules:
http://sandradodd.com/rules
New piece at the bottom of that, about 14 year old girls and rules in different families

Nations of the World
http://sandradodd.com/geography/nations
just the beginnings of something, but kinda fun

The Lyrics Game continues; current word is "Party."

Perhaps I have mentioned how much I love the internet. I just adore the opportunity to share photos and music and ideas with people around the world, so quickly, without having to dress up or leave home. Thanks for being part of my fun internet experience.

Playing Encore online

I've set up a lyrics game.

Some of you have played Encore before (some of you have played it with me!)

I'm making an attempt to play a version of it online, just for fun.

http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com/

If you want to come and play, the current word is "farm."

If that sounds fun and if you can think (THINK, not google) of eight words of a song that contain "farm" (or farming or farmer), go and put it in as a comment.

Sandra

expectations, video games, science

New page: Expectations
Robyn Coburn, on expectations, and lots of links.
http://sandradodd.com/expectations

Existing page: Tales of Happy Video Gamers
http://sandradodd.com/game/tales
The second entry there is new to the site.

New page just a minute ago (as I'm writing this): Science
http://sandradodd.com/science
That will grow, but it's got enough for a beginning.

(Gratuitous Photo of Holly, who is in Rhode Island this week.)

oops... wrong blog

"Flowers, compost, patience, trees" is here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/06/flowers-compost-patience-trees.html

That was yard news, not site news. Very sorry.

change, attitude, subjects and respect

Susan, on UnschoolingBasics reported very clearly a day on which she
changed, and her perspective changed.
http://sandradodd.com/change (fourth thing down, I think)

Attitude and Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/attitude
This is another of those pages I made and forgot about, and didn't
link to my main page (I have now), so I added the third column of
links (including "change," the one above this one) and ta-daa!

Subjects
http://sandradodd.com/subjects
The page isn't new, but some of the links had been put in blank, on
speculation and hope I would eventually create them all. They've
existed for a while, but I had forgotten to go and fill in the
blanks. All workable now!

Respect (and kids who are aggressive and seem difficult)
http://sandradodd.com/robyn/respect
I've added some very wise advice Robyn Coburn gave to a mom who said
her five-year-old son was becoming "aggressive and mean."

music, "Yes", connections

Something beautiful and new about saying YES
http://sandradodd.com/yesagain

Connections, and The Day the Universe Changed,
both James Burke series largely about the history of science, and how one development leads to another...
Jocelyn Vilter found much online information and links to YouTube videos.
I've put the links here:
http://sandradodd.com/connections, in the box on the right.

Addition of music to the music page:
http://sandradodd.com/music/
and that will change from time to time

This is not the one that's at the link above; this is the one I made for MySpace, after Holly showed me how to do it. You can make one too (you can make several; I also have one at http://sandradodd.com/strew/simpsons)

You can make your own, or look through other people's, at
ProjectPlaylist.com
(or click "create a playlist" on anyone else's player).

changes, driver's ed and research

Seeing changes in ourselves and our children:

A report by Kerryn in Australia, and a good quote from Pam Sorooshian:
"As we get older and our kids grow up, we eventually come to realize that all the big things in our lives are really the direct result of how we've handled all the little things."
http://sandradodd.com/change

"A Mom's-Eye View of Driver's Ed" written when Holly became a driver, with photos of Kirby, Marty, Holly and of Brett Henry's first truck.
http://sandradodd.com/driversed

Two things have been added at the bottom of this page, about what people want to know and why. (Hard to describe briefly, but worth a read!)
http://sandradodd.com/research

history songs, and powers of ten

Today's links both involve sound and video, so with apologies to anyone with a dial-up connection, here's the news:

Powers of Ten videos, four of them:
http://sandradodd.com/m/ten
Hear Japanese and Catalan while you're traveling through theoretical space and theoretical-sub-atomic-land.


"When I was a Lad" from H.M.S. Pinafore
Because the Pinky and the Brain parody is based on it, and because I couldn't find a page that had words and music together, nor a set of lyrics formatted to my satisfaction, I made my own page:

http://sandradodd.com/history/alad

That page links back to the Pinky and the Brain version, "A Meticulous Analysis of History"

These aren't new writings on unschooling, they're strewing opportunities and doors to exploration.

Elvis, Battle of New Orleans, Pinky and the Brain, Cavemen

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Today in
Elvis Presley History

1949 - Elvis Presley received a school report card on which he was given an "A" in English and a "C" in Music.

1982 - Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis, TN, opened as a tourist attraction.

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http://sandradodd.com/elvis

Maybe I never announced my Elvis page. It could use some more links. Anyone here have a favorite Elvis link or want to hunt one up? I added something to the "How Elvis Appears to Unschoolers" page too.

I came to that by following and working on links from a really new page (with a couple of addenda pages and lots of links):
http://sandradodd.com/history/songs

Be warned that it opens with music.

So far, it includes
The Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)
We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel)
American Pie (Don McLean)
Abraham, Martin & John (Dion)
The Meticulous Analysis of History (Pinky and the Brain)

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Deb Lewis was inspired by Kelly Lovejoy saying "Even Neanderthals learned!" and her response is well worth a read:
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/cavemen

Getting it, and the state comes to call

There's a new piece, short but sweet, on the "Getting It" page, and I
thought it would be a good page to bring to light in general:

http://sandradodd.com/unschool/gettingit

Last week when I was super-busy with other things anyway, I got a
letter (left on the wrong house, but I got it) from the State of New
Mexico department of Children Youth and Families. You might imagine
how thrilled I was not. I figured I was finally going to be called
on to defend my homeschooling or something along those lines. It was
something completely different, though, and I documented it here:

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/05/control-and-jealous- craziness.html

The background post is here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/05/holly-news-sandra-muse.html
and
http://sandradodd.com/blogcomments/license

Although it's not at all a classic unschooling essay or anything, I
think there are things there to make one consider the benefits of
living a life of open trustfulness (or of fearful negativity, but why
spread it around more than necessary?).

Sandra

Limits and page names

Limits

http://sandradodd.com/limits.html

Deb Lewis wrote something great on a list I'm not on. Kelly Lovejoy forwarded it to me, and it needed a home. I went to name a file "limits" and found I already had one, with a good bit from Deb Cunefare I had saved but not formatted. I guess I knew someday I'd come back there and fix it up. Today is that day.

I wrote an introduction, threw in five reasonable links.

Pam Sorooshian's daughter, Rose, discovered one day that she could guess URL extensions for my site and lots of them were there. That's been my plan for a while. You might try it, and if you find there's a perfect keyword that's not opening a page, send me a note and I might make a redirect page to the closest existing page, or a directory page, or just build the page.