Creation Crate – BoomBox {Review}
This post contains affiliate links. If your children excel at hands-on projects or you are looking for a fun but challenging hobby for your older children, try Creation Crate – a tech subscription box that teaches electronics and programming skills together. WHAT IS CREATION CRATE & WHAT PROJECT WE DID: Creation Crate is a Canadian-based […]
Tech in the Homeschool Classroom
Technology is a wonderful gift in the homeschooling world – access to more information than any generation before us! This month, the Canadian Homeschool Blogging Team share how they use technology in their homeschool. Leanne – 4 ways we use technology for French I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I love the way it […]
Teach Your Kids About …. Computer Safety
The world our kids live in is digital. As parents, it’s vital we give our children the tools they need to conduct themselves safely online, and to teach them how to protect their technology. Resources and Information for Parents Internet Safety 101 – about pornography, predators, online gaming, mobile devices, cyberbullying, and social media Growing […]
Media Smarts
Media Literacy is an important skill in today’s world. Children are inundated with messages from television, music, video games, movies, and the internet on a daily basis. They need to learn how to filter the messages appropriately and how to be safe in their digital environments. Media Smarts is a website that focuses on education, public […]
Teach Your Kids About …. Keyboarding
These days, computer skills are a must-have for our children. An important skill to learn is how to type quickly and properly. Here are some resources to help make learning keyboarding fun and easy. Practice Games: DanceMat Typing – Popular typing game by the BBC Upbeat – Guitar Hero style music game using ASD space and […]
RPG Maker
If your child is a video game enthusiast and you are trying to find a way to expand on that, I encourage you to check out RPGMaker. Taking the classic approach to RPG gaming, this program allows designers to get behind the game and make their own from scratch. This site has several different options, but the […]
Gynzy.com
Although homeschoolers don’t have interactive whiteboards like the new current phase of technology in the public school classrooms, we can still use our computers to access some of the amazing resources available for this. Introducing Gynzy – a website full of interactive educational resources that you can use right on your computer screen (with your mouse, […]
The Impact of Gamified Learning
There has long been the question of how to keep kids engaged in the classroom, especially in math class where lessons on blackboards often struggle to hit home in the practical minds of kids. With the short attention spans of young minds and the abstract concepts involved in math class it can be challenging to […]