To moderators: Intro and request
shana ronayne
Hi there -
I'm an unschooling mother who has just begun putting together a
magazine in the tradition of Growing Without Schooling. I've often
felt that there has been something missing in the
homeschooling/unschooling community for the past few years, and I
wanted to do my part to put things right. This is a project I've
been considering for some time now and have just embarked on with a
passion.
The magazine, Live Free: Learn Free, is a forum for unschoolers and
relaxed homeschoolers in which to share ideas, stories, and
experiences in a safe environment. All the material (save for the
introduction to each issue) will be written by those who home
educate - both parents (or other relatives) and children. It will
be an inclusive magazine, not only for and by experienced
unschoolers, but also for and by those just starting down the path.
It will embrace those who are radical in their unschooling methods
and those who are less so.
The magazine will be small in the beginning - put together with
little money and modestly printed. I think that home educating
families will be more interested in the content than in the look of
the magazine. My hope is that this notice finds a life of its own
by being forwarded by interested homeschoolers from list to list.
This seems like the way to reach the most people and to enable the
magazine to become a wonderful resource. Really, the more people
who write for it, the more helpful it will become.
That said, in my search for unschooling lists, I found you. I
believe that a magazine written by real homeschoolers at different
points in their journeys could be a very valuable resource for those
just starting out. I was not a member of this group until today,
and I don't want to be seen as a spammer. My motivation is to
create something useful for the unschooling community, but I can't
do it alone. I don't have the contacts on my own. Not even close,
really. I'm a lurker, generally, posting only very rarely. I've
been a member of the Uschooling-List for several years now and of
the RUL for about a year or so. I also belong to several smaller
unschooling lists. I prefer, usually, to read other's posts and
glean from them useful information that meets my needs at the time.
And, I guess that's one of the reasons behind my creating of Live
Free: Learn Free: it's a magazine that allows readers to get a
glimpse of how others live and learn.
If you would be willing to post this notice, I'd be very grateful.
If you don't feel it meets the needs of your list members, just let
me know. Also, if you have any questions or would like anything
clarified, please let me know.
Thank you,
Shana Hickman
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is a new, soon-to-be-launched magazine. In
the tradition of John Holt's GROWING WITHOUT SCHOOLING (for
information on this amazing magazine, please visit Fun Books (a site
owned by a homeschooling family with whom LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is
not affiliated) at http://www.fun-books.com/gws.htm), LIVE FREE:
LEARN FREE strives to bring home educating families together by
publishing articles, stories, and letters written by
home/unschooling parents and children. All content (except the
introduction to each issue) will be written by readers and will
focus on one or more themes.
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is looking for parents and children involved
in home education, particularly unschooling or relaxed/eclectic
homeschooling, to contribute to the first issue. We've decided to
just dive right in and start with the "Big S": Socialization. It's
usually the first concern relatives or well-meaning strangers voice,
and it is often a deciding factor in a family's decision to educate
their children at home. It's a scary question, but does it have to
be? Send us stories of your own experiences, your thoughts on the
importance or unimportance of socialization, what socialization has
come to mean for you and your family, etc. Anything goes.
Additionally, we'd like to receive, on an ongoing basis, articles or
letters about what works (or doesn't work) for you as home
educators: lifestyle choices (such as bedtimes, chores, etc.),
curriculum/non-curriculum choices, resources, etc., as well as
glimpses into the days and ways of an unschooling family. This will
be a recurring section of the magazine.
Finally, if there are changes occurring in your state's
homeschooling laws, we want to hear about it. You can use LIVE
FREE: LEARN FREE as another forum to reach as many home educators in
your state as possible.
There is no monetary payment for contributors; however, each
contributing writer will receive a free copy of the magazine.
Additionally, authors who request it will receive a frame-able
certificate thanking them for their contribution to LIVE FREE: LEARN
FREE (a great incentive for kids of all ages).
Please send all articles, stories, letters, etc. in the body of an
email or in an attached Word document. Hard copies of contributions
may also be sent to our physical address for those without Internet
access.
Though we strive to print as much as possible, unfortunately not
every contribution will make it into LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE. Whether
we use your article or not, you will receive a response from the
editors. We hope to have enough material to print a stellar first
issue within about a month; however, we have not set a firm
deadline, as we don't know the amount of interest this notice will
generate.
*****
We are also looking for advertisers. LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is a
great place to advertise your home- or home-education-friendly
business! First issue rates for advertisers are as follows:
$12 for 1/3 page
$20 for 1/2 page
$35 for full page
Please note: at this time, a page is five-and-a-half by eight-and-a-
half inches.
Please send your advertisement image as a black-and-white JPEG or
simply email us the text if no image is needed. Graphic design work
for your advertisement is available for an additional fee.
*****
Please send contributions, advertising queries, inquiries,
subscription requests, and etc. to
folkypoet@...
or
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE
1635 Pearl Avenue
Wichita Falls, TX 76301-5726
*****
**Also, feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be
interested. Thank you for your interest in LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE!
Sincerely,
Shana Ronayne Hickman and Terry RW Whisenant (editors)
I'm an unschooling mother who has just begun putting together a
magazine in the tradition of Growing Without Schooling. I've often
felt that there has been something missing in the
homeschooling/unschooling community for the past few years, and I
wanted to do my part to put things right. This is a project I've
been considering for some time now and have just embarked on with a
passion.
The magazine, Live Free: Learn Free, is a forum for unschoolers and
relaxed homeschoolers in which to share ideas, stories, and
experiences in a safe environment. All the material (save for the
introduction to each issue) will be written by those who home
educate - both parents (or other relatives) and children. It will
be an inclusive magazine, not only for and by experienced
unschoolers, but also for and by those just starting down the path.
It will embrace those who are radical in their unschooling methods
and those who are less so.
The magazine will be small in the beginning - put together with
little money and modestly printed. I think that home educating
families will be more interested in the content than in the look of
the magazine. My hope is that this notice finds a life of its own
by being forwarded by interested homeschoolers from list to list.
This seems like the way to reach the most people and to enable the
magazine to become a wonderful resource. Really, the more people
who write for it, the more helpful it will become.
That said, in my search for unschooling lists, I found you. I
believe that a magazine written by real homeschoolers at different
points in their journeys could be a very valuable resource for those
just starting out. I was not a member of this group until today,
and I don't want to be seen as a spammer. My motivation is to
create something useful for the unschooling community, but I can't
do it alone. I don't have the contacts on my own. Not even close,
really. I'm a lurker, generally, posting only very rarely. I've
been a member of the Uschooling-List for several years now and of
the RUL for about a year or so. I also belong to several smaller
unschooling lists. I prefer, usually, to read other's posts and
glean from them useful information that meets my needs at the time.
And, I guess that's one of the reasons behind my creating of Live
Free: Learn Free: it's a magazine that allows readers to get a
glimpse of how others live and learn.
If you would be willing to post this notice, I'd be very grateful.
If you don't feel it meets the needs of your list members, just let
me know. Also, if you have any questions or would like anything
clarified, please let me know.
Thank you,
Shana Hickman
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is a new, soon-to-be-launched magazine. In
the tradition of John Holt's GROWING WITHOUT SCHOOLING (for
information on this amazing magazine, please visit Fun Books (a site
owned by a homeschooling family with whom LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is
not affiliated) at http://www.fun-books.com/gws.htm), LIVE FREE:
LEARN FREE strives to bring home educating families together by
publishing articles, stories, and letters written by
home/unschooling parents and children. All content (except the
introduction to each issue) will be written by readers and will
focus on one or more themes.
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is looking for parents and children involved
in home education, particularly unschooling or relaxed/eclectic
homeschooling, to contribute to the first issue. We've decided to
just dive right in and start with the "Big S": Socialization. It's
usually the first concern relatives or well-meaning strangers voice,
and it is often a deciding factor in a family's decision to educate
their children at home. It's a scary question, but does it have to
be? Send us stories of your own experiences, your thoughts on the
importance or unimportance of socialization, what socialization has
come to mean for you and your family, etc. Anything goes.
Additionally, we'd like to receive, on an ongoing basis, articles or
letters about what works (or doesn't work) for you as home
educators: lifestyle choices (such as bedtimes, chores, etc.),
curriculum/non-curriculum choices, resources, etc., as well as
glimpses into the days and ways of an unschooling family. This will
be a recurring section of the magazine.
Finally, if there are changes occurring in your state's
homeschooling laws, we want to hear about it. You can use LIVE
FREE: LEARN FREE as another forum to reach as many home educators in
your state as possible.
There is no monetary payment for contributors; however, each
contributing writer will receive a free copy of the magazine.
Additionally, authors who request it will receive a frame-able
certificate thanking them for their contribution to LIVE FREE: LEARN
FREE (a great incentive for kids of all ages).
Please send all articles, stories, letters, etc. in the body of an
email or in an attached Word document. Hard copies of contributions
may also be sent to our physical address for those without Internet
access.
Though we strive to print as much as possible, unfortunately not
every contribution will make it into LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE. Whether
we use your article or not, you will receive a response from the
editors. We hope to have enough material to print a stellar first
issue within about a month; however, we have not set a firm
deadline, as we don't know the amount of interest this notice will
generate.
*****
We are also looking for advertisers. LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE is a
great place to advertise your home- or home-education-friendly
business! First issue rates for advertisers are as follows:
$12 for 1/3 page
$20 for 1/2 page
$35 for full page
Please note: at this time, a page is five-and-a-half by eight-and-a-
half inches.
Please send your advertisement image as a black-and-white JPEG or
simply email us the text if no image is needed. Graphic design work
for your advertisement is available for an additional fee.
*****
Please send contributions, advertising queries, inquiries,
subscription requests, and etc. to
folkypoet@...
or
LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE
1635 Pearl Avenue
Wichita Falls, TX 76301-5726
*****
**Also, feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be
interested. Thank you for your interest in LIVE FREE: LEARN FREE!
Sincerely,
Shana Ronayne Hickman and Terry RW Whisenant (editors)
kay alina
Shana,
I am interested in this new magazine. Do you have a website we can order it
from?
Kay
I am interested in this new magazine. Do you have a website we can order it
from?
Kay
shana ronayne
Hi Kay -
I've just registered www.livefreelearnfree.com. It should be online
within the next few days. If all goes as planned, you should be
able to subscribe through the website, as well as order single
issues, email submissions, find out more about the goals of the
magazine, etc. There will also be a database of unschooling/relaxed
homeschooling families. I'm still working out the details of the
subscription information, but if you'd like to email me at
folkypoet@..., I'd be more than happy to contact you about
it as soon as there's more definite information.
Thanks!
Shana
--- In [email protected], "kay alina"
<angelsguard@s...> wrote:
I've just registered www.livefreelearnfree.com. It should be online
within the next few days. If all goes as planned, you should be
able to subscribe through the website, as well as order single
issues, email submissions, find out more about the goals of the
magazine, etc. There will also be a database of unschooling/relaxed
homeschooling families. I'm still working out the details of the
subscription information, but if you'd like to email me at
folkypoet@..., I'd be more than happy to contact you about
it as soon as there's more definite information.
Thanks!
Shana
--- In [email protected], "kay alina"
<angelsguard@s...> wrote:
> Shana,can order it
> I am interested in this new magazine. Do you have a website we
> from?
> Kay