Sandra Dodd

Belinda wrote (of the Radical Unschooling Info group):

-=-It’s still good information as it’s still curated and kept on topic. But i think a lot of the answers are written on phones and are less carefully crafted ... like many I check fb on my phone in ‘empty moments’ in between stuff. When i am much less likely to write a considered contribution. -=-

This is my personal sorrow, that many younger unschooling moms don’t seem to have a laptop, or maybe the kids are watching youtube there because the screen is bigger. :-)

Some people are great with a phone, and you can’t even tell they weren’t at a keyboard. Most others, though, not so. Also the group itself is difficult to read, to search, to see the side links, the pinned post, etc. So even the features facebook offers don’t show well on a phone, it seems.

The intention of Radical Unschooling Info was to give people links to the answers to their questions. Originally, to direct them to discussions on the Radical Unschooling Info forum (no longer there), and then to links on my site, Joyce’s, or Pam Laricchia’s.

Now, though, when a link is sent, the person reading it on a phone might not be able to read it, or might choose “reader’s view” which sometimes doesn’t have everything, and loses some nice formatting.

Will information need to be in phone-digestible bites, from now on?
Did we go from book-length input, to magazine-article, to webpage, to phone screen?

Perhaps my website, too, is obsolete now.

Sandra

Kathryn Robles

I always reading everything on my phone because it's portable and usually the kids are on the computers.  

However, it's not difficult to me to zoom in on your site to see all the different boxes and formatted bits. 

It takes a bit more time, but the information is so valuable that having to take a fraction of a second and two fingers to expand and scroll is certainly worth it.

-Kathryn

On Aug 13, 2018 9:35 PM, "Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning]" <[email protected]> wrote:
 

Belinda wrote (of the Radical Unschooling Info group):

-=-It’s still good information as it’s still curated and kept on topic. But i think a lot of the answers are written on phones and are less carefully crafted ... like many I check fb on my phone in ‘empty moments’ in between stuff. When i am much less likely to write a considered contribution. -=-

This is my personal sorrow, that many younger unschooling moms don’t seem to have a laptop, or maybe the kids are watching youtube there because the screen is bigger. :-)

Some people are great with a phone, and you can’t even tell they weren’t at a keyboard. Most others, though, not so. Also the group itself is difficult to read, to search, to see the side links, the pinned post, etc. So even the features facebook offers don’t show well on a phone, it seems.

The intention of Radical Unschooling Info was to give people links to the answers to their questions. Originally, to direct them to discussions on the Radical Unschooling Info forum (no longer there), and then to links on my site, Joyce’s, or Pam Laricchia’s.

Now, though, when a link is sent, the person reading it on a phone might not be able to read it, or might choose “reader’s view” which sometimes doesn’t have everything, and loses some nice formatting.

Will information need to be in phone-digestible bites, from now on?
Did we go from book-length input, to magazine-article, to webpage, to phone screen?

Perhaps my website, too, is obsolete now.

Sandra


Joanne Hart

Hi. I'm joanne.
I loosely but sincerely read most of the posts on this group if I have the bandwidth but only really over the last year or two even though my youngest of three is 16 now.
I have some younger generation mom friends who are seriously considering homeschooling/unschooling and I have shared this group with them. Some have had a hard time signing up on yahoo groups A lot of them are much more savvy about Google groups and stuff than I am. Im not on Facebook for 2 1/2 years now and do not miss it. So I have no idea what's going on over there. I hardly ever use my phone to read stuff or write stuff...messes with my brain.. I use a iPad, PC, laptop.

I live in Worcester Massachusetts and over the last year or two the school system has started to behave very strangely and The Association for Home Educators in Massachusetts has been trying to coach people and they started a Yahoo group and a Facebook group to help people deal with the school system which is not following the law and getting really brutal. Like denying homeschool families who have been homeschooling for 15 years and stuff like that. 

Turn of the year I was very unorganized and couldn't think straight and was overworked and I haven't been doing my paperwork right with the school system.  And now, at age 55,  as it turned out, I'm being intensely treated for Aplastic Anemia… Didn't know my blood counts were so low and that explained some things about why things were getting hard… Punchline is I went downtown to try to make things right and they called DCF on me and so we had to go through that whole thing which was ridiculous and kind of interesting. We had been homeschooling for 15 years. The DCF worker was totally scratching her head and signed off with a thumbs up. 

Thanks for listening.

I love Sandra and everything that I've seen on these posts with everyone and I want to share the love with my own schooling/homeschooling friends and will continue to do so whenever possible. Many thanks to everyone who shows up here and offers what you do offer. I am eternally grateful.
Love,
-joanne 


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Sandra Dodd

It’s always good to know what’s working well for people, and that the discussion (here and elsewhere) has helped.

-=-Punchline is I went downtown to try to make things right and they called DCF on me and so we had to go through that whole thing which was ridiculous and kind of interesting. We had been homeschooling for 15 years. The DCF worker was totally scratching her head and signed off with a thumbs up. -=-

I’m glad it was handled smoothly, but I’m sorry people where you are have had new problems.

It’s possible that an era has passed and there will be new and other options coming along.

There have been some people giving unschooling a worse reputation than it used to have, that it should have. But when lots of people are doing it more wildly and loosely than is optimal and good…we can’t control them. And governmental attempts to rein them in will affect others as well, perhaps.

Kelly Callahan

I keep up with the Facebook page because it’s helpful for me to read about unschooling almost daily. But it doesn’t land the same as a thread in the email group. 

I still spend time searching and re-reading old yahoo group posts when I need a re-look or a fresh (old) perspective.  And I do follow the links to the website as well. 

Podcasts may slip is as the better choice for those who won’t do yahoo and find Facebook to be lacking. I listen to Pam’s regularly, and also Amy Child’s. 



On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:07 AM Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

It’s always good to know what’s working well for people, and that the discussion (here and elsewhere) has helped.

-=-Punchline is I went downtown to try to make things right and they called DCF on me and so we had to go through that whole thing which was ridiculous and kind of interesting. We had been homeschooling for 15 years. The DCF worker was totally scratching her head and signed off with a thumbs up. -=-

I’m glad it was handled smoothly, but I’m sorry people where you are have had new problems.

It’s possible that an era has passed and there will be new and other options coming along.

There have been some people giving unschooling a worse reputation than it used to have, that it should have. But when lots of people are doing it more wildly and loosely than is optimal and good…we can’t control them. And governmental attempts to rein them in will affect others as well, perhaps.

--
Kelly Callahan CCH 
Concentric Healing Classical Homeopathy

(207) 691-6798



Sandra Dodd

-=-Podcasts may slip in as the better choice for those who won’t do yahoo and find Facebook to be lacking. I listen to Pam’s regularly, and also Amy Child’s. -=-

For anyone without quick links to those,
Amy’s: http://unschoolingsupport.com
Those are short and sweet and often feature me. :-) There are a few that are only Amy and me.
When she die #51, of 50, which was some favorite bits that hadn’t been included for one reason or another, I listened waiting to hear myself, and was sad to find none of me. But I was embarrassed to say “What about me?” Then #52 came out, and it was all out-takes from interviews with me. Then I was embarrassed again, and amused. You might be, too.


Subscribe to Pam Laricchia’s mailings to get the introductions to each new interview. The intros are GREAT, and not easy to find later. I’m not sure where the old mailings can be found, so I save some. :-)

Each of Pam Laricchia’s podcasts has a range of accessibility, and lately, some have video. First you can read the e-mail intro, if you’re subscribed.
That will have a link to a page that has a transcript, so you can read along if you want. Those can be downloaded or listened to directly from her site, and many are also on YouTube. A thorough examination of one single podcast could take a day or two. :-)

Sometimes she has interviewed someone who made me wince, but there are way more who made me sit up brightly, so glad they’d had a chance to say some wonderful things that others will hear, even years from now.

You can subscribe to the podasts right there, at the podcast button, so you’ll only be dealing with e-mail and websites. No facebook needed. No Yahoogroups needed.
https://livingjoyfully.ca

There’s a list of the podcasts here, down below:
https://livingjoyfully.ca/podcast-2/

And two of those have been interviews with me. Both are on YouTube. (Maybe all of hers are, now.)
They’re part of a playlist I have here, that includes some other things, too.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRaLUQfpUj7deXUV5JPwR3eYYV_wtyQX7

That’s probably WAY too much, but if you parcel it out over the next two or three years, might be fun. :-)

Sandra