http://sandradodd.com/peace/guns
A new song is added to the "small words" collection, a page to note ancient language in modern literature.
http://sandradodd.com/smallwords
Magic Window
http://sandradodd.com/magicwindow
The congruence passed when Marty turned 19, but the magic remains.
It's been busy lately on the Always Learning list, which usually leads to more page additions and new pages. Things will slow down again before long, I'm sure.
sandradodd.com/peace/newview
Spouses—how unschooling can improve relationships
sandradodd.com/spouses
Your House as a Museum has been touched because I found the bongos,
and cleaned up the format.
sandradodd.com/museum
The aforementioned and long-previously mentioned bongos:
sandradodd.blogspot.com...bongos
Holly took that photo a few days ago.
It's misleading. None of those three had anything to do with either of the other two. Fun, huh?
I left them there because that's the order in which I added the links to draft, but seriously, they're unrelated.
And so, to the links:
new bits and clean-up on the dads page
http://sandradodd.com/dads
new stories about multiplication (the scary "times tables"), and some
older stories moved from a more obscure page to this guessable-link page
http://sandradodd.com/timestables
The Return of Linda Wyatt! (with updates, for the front page of the
math section, which has always featured Linda's writing)
http://sandradodd.com/math
There's a new "Typical Days" account, in photos:
http://sandradodd.com/day/amanda
(Those are Amanda's girls to the right.)
Not news on my site, but of my words elsewhere.
Sandra Dodd - A Loud Peaceful Home The Victoria Home Learning Network of the Greater Victoria area (British Columbia, Canada) has quoted me extensively and linked to my site. If you have friends or correspondents in that area, send them this: http://www.vhln.org/
They didn't link to this page, but I can!
http://sandradodd.com/peace/noisy
I like the bio that was with that, so I've brought it here for fun.
Sandra Dodd is the mostly-peaceful mother of primarily-peaceful children, in a generally peaceful home in Albuquerque. Her dog is at peace with her cats. Sandra once taught Jr. High English, in a long-ago age, but met Keith Dodd and they lived happily ever after (so far so good).
A new quote and some page clean-up on Etymology: Unschooling Kids and
the History of Words
http://sandradodd.com/etymology
New pages just today which will have more info later:
http://sandradodd.com/donovan (not so directly unschooling, but
for a big current interest)
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/criticism (directly unschooling, but
misconceived)
Recent words on the Lyrics game: left, music, magic
http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com
Nesting Dolls, some history, a Sesame Street segment, and tie-ins to ecology and other big issues. Art, history, politics, humor. USSR meets Flight of the Conchords on Sesame Street. (Your comments and links are welcome there!)
 Sandra Dodd's home for wayward worms | New: http://sandradodd.com/day/nicole added to Typical Days Improved: http://sandradodd.com/sleeping Coming Soon: http://sandradodd.com/worms (well the worm-house page and photos are there, but the home isn't yet occupied) The worms were delivered Friday 2/29. More photos sometime...) |
Those who read AlwaysLearning have already seen it.
I was criticized and defended.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback
A reminder about making gradual changes (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/gradualchange
What isn't unschooling? (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/marginal
The best summary of unschooling I've ever seen, added to the right here:
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/definition
A video (I didn't make it) of how morning glories twine, added here (thanks, Rue!)
http://sandradodd.com/morningglories
I realize I've had lots of updates in the past week. It won't last. For a while, I was only working on SCA pages. I'm going to Arizona on the weekend to speak in Tempe (http://www.hena.us/conference.html)so for a few days I won't be online at all. Don't be afraid that I'll send this many updates all the time.
The photo is by Holly. She put it on my MySpace.
Thanks for reading!
Sandra
I was browsing through Moving a Puddle because Holly's reading some of it for the first time, and a friend of hers might be reading it. I found an error.
"Damn it!" I said to no one. Marty came in.
"What?"
"A typo. Well, not a typo. An editing error." I read it to him. It's on page 42
In a very kind voice Marty said, "Well your life will be over soon and you won't have to worry about it."
"Thanks!" I said brightly, and I meant it, because honestly—how much do I beat myself about something that two editors missed and I missed and that doesn't harm anyone's safety or progress?
Marty said "I'm just here to help." But honestly he did help.
My big error is in having adverbs which should've been changed to adjectives when I re-wrote some part of that middle phrase:
It’s about how people learn—how easily and effortlessly natural learning is, and how difficult-to-impossible “formal education” is compared to the real learning that goes on every day of a person’s life.DOH! should be "easy and effortless"
Interesting fallacies on dyslexia added here, about the fourth item:
http://sandradodd.com/myths
http://sandradodd.com/ifilet
Even though nothing's new there, some of you might not have seen it (or not lately).
A pair of articles got separated in space and time but are together and more easily available.
"To be Fascinating at Cocktail Parties" and "To Get More Jokes" are
http://sandradodd.com/connections/cocktail
http://sandradodd.com/connections/jokes
http://sandradodd.com/johnholt
New movie recommendations at the top:
http://sandradodd.com/t/movies
and reminder of the page
MOVIES AS A PLAYGROUND, as tools, as portals ... sharing movies with our kids
http://sandradodd.com/movies
Amanda documented her "explore" on the history of TV on the Always Learning list, and I saved it here:
http://sandradodd.com/t/history
Some diseases you and your children might have. Bummer.
http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/2008/02/drapetomania-school-refusal-and.html