Resources online
Sandra Dodd
There are a few problems in the world. :-) One is that websites don't last forever. It occurs to me to wonder sometimes what will happen to mine if I die.
But at the moment, I've just noticed this:
Future home of www.unschooling.com
www.unschooling.com/
An online library, resources, message boards, and networking opportunities sponsored by Home Education Magazine.
What was there is gone. There were articles and definitions. Some of it was duplicated on my site, but not all.
If any of you have an article out there on a single site, maybe consider putting it in another place. People delete sites. People delete blogs.
Several of my articles in French translations recently became available only to subscribers or registered site members (I don't know enough French to follow the trail), so I'm moving them to my site. I have most of them.
http://sandradodd.com/french
I worked on that for a few hours yesterday.
Recently an online "ezine" went down, and I rescued things by Deb Lewis, Robyn Coburn, Schuyler Waynforth and Ben Lovejoy.
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis
http://sandradodd.com/robyncoburn
http://sandradodd.com/schuylerwaynforth
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy
The main reason we (Pam Sorooshian, Joyce Fetteroll and I) keep the Unschooling Discussion sites is for their archives. The archives of the unschooling.info forum from years ago are gone. I have a new forum, but no time to mess with it or maintain it. Those forums attract bots and spam and it's a pain to clear out the morning's zombies every single day.
Partly, I think I want to say, appreciate what's available. :-) It might not be there forever.
I've added 80 pages to my random page generator recently
http://sandradodd.com/random
and if you're interested in being notified when there are new things on my site, subscribe here:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com
There are some new videos and articles linked here--NOT on my site, but out on news sites (TV, radio, newspaper, magazine)
http://unschooling.blogspot.com
And my favorite daily thing has a cool photo of Holly. It's in Moving a Puddle, but it's in black and white there.
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com
There are many other online resources you can find with google and decide whether you like them. I don't want to vouch for things outside of mine and Joyce's and Pam's, because frankly I don't trust some of the motives and angles of others. Some are very political. Some are woo-woo, out there metaphysically. Some are just American. I saw a site the other day that was just UK and US. What about Canada!?? I want to promote things that are about learning, about families, not about nations or laws, and so I do. And real-life things not imaginary channeled alien influences and other QUITE off topic poo.
That's the end of my link-rich rant for the season. :-)
OH! One more link, a letter I got this week, and got permission to share it.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/betsyS
Sandra
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But at the moment, I've just noticed this:
Future home of www.unschooling.com
www.unschooling.com/
An online library, resources, message boards, and networking opportunities sponsored by Home Education Magazine.
What was there is gone. There were articles and definitions. Some of it was duplicated on my site, but not all.
If any of you have an article out there on a single site, maybe consider putting it in another place. People delete sites. People delete blogs.
Several of my articles in French translations recently became available only to subscribers or registered site members (I don't know enough French to follow the trail), so I'm moving them to my site. I have most of them.
http://sandradodd.com/french
I worked on that for a few hours yesterday.
Recently an online "ezine" went down, and I rescued things by Deb Lewis, Robyn Coburn, Schuyler Waynforth and Ben Lovejoy.
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis
http://sandradodd.com/robyncoburn
http://sandradodd.com/schuylerwaynforth
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy
The main reason we (Pam Sorooshian, Joyce Fetteroll and I) keep the Unschooling Discussion sites is for their archives. The archives of the unschooling.info forum from years ago are gone. I have a new forum, but no time to mess with it or maintain it. Those forums attract bots and spam and it's a pain to clear out the morning's zombies every single day.
Partly, I think I want to say, appreciate what's available. :-) It might not be there forever.
I've added 80 pages to my random page generator recently
http://sandradodd.com/random
and if you're interested in being notified when there are new things on my site, subscribe here:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com
There are some new videos and articles linked here--NOT on my site, but out on news sites (TV, radio, newspaper, magazine)
http://unschooling.blogspot.com
And my favorite daily thing has a cool photo of Holly. It's in Moving a Puddle, but it's in black and white there.
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com
There are many other online resources you can find with google and decide whether you like them. I don't want to vouch for things outside of mine and Joyce's and Pam's, because frankly I don't trust some of the motives and angles of others. Some are very political. Some are woo-woo, out there metaphysically. Some are just American. I saw a site the other day that was just UK and US. What about Canada!?? I want to promote things that are about learning, about families, not about nations or laws, and so I do. And real-life things not imaginary channeled alien influences and other QUITE off topic poo.
That's the end of my link-rich rant for the season. :-)
OH! One more link, a letter I got this week, and got permission to share it.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/betsyS
Sandra
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folkymom
--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@.
I learned of this a couple of months ago when I was looking for something from an old site of my own. . .I was amazed to find pictures I took from way back in 2002, that I had no other copies of! So neat!
~Kelli
>Did you know that you can go back and look at archived versions of a lost site, if you were lookng for something specific? Try the Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
> What was there is gone. There were articles and definitions. Some of it was duplicated on my site, but not all.
I learned of this a couple of months ago when I was looking for something from an old site of my own. . .I was amazed to find pictures I took from way back in 2002, that I had no other copies of! So neat!
~Kelli
Sandra Dodd
-=-Try the Wayback Machine-=-
Yes. That's how I'm getting those French articles. Wayback Machine is having maintenance this week, so not all servers are working all the time.
It's fun, though, and often if a link has gone bad, it's worth cutting and pasting the URL and going to archive.org and pasting it in.
They have my main unschooling page, from 2000. It was older than that, but that's their first archived copy:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000826220144/http://expage.com/RadicalUnschooling
Some of the little graphics are gone.
That page would've been called "unschooling" but someone had already used that at expage.com. so to this day, mine is called "radical unschooling." So it goes. :-)
Sandra
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Yes. That's how I'm getting those French articles. Wayback Machine is having maintenance this week, so not all servers are working all the time.
It's fun, though, and often if a link has gone bad, it's worth cutting and pasting the URL and going to archive.org and pasting it in.
They have my main unschooling page, from 2000. It was older than that, but that's their first archived copy:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000826220144/http://expage.com/RadicalUnschooling
Some of the little graphics are gone.
That page would've been called "unschooling" but someone had already used that at expage.com. so to this day, mine is called "radical unschooling." So it goes. :-)
Sandra
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