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Using Streaming Movies in Homeschooling to Enhance Learning

Cinematic documentaries, movies set in a specific time period, chemists performing experiments on-screen: these are just a few of the ways that you can utilize movies in homeschooling to enhance learning. If you already use unit studies to teach your children then you probably know that a great way to meet the needs of your visual learners is through video. Video homeschooling helps to teach a lesson in a a more full, rich way.

While Netflix is a wonderful resource for family entertainment, did you know you can also use Netflix videos for education? Streaming videos is becoming the next big thing in video delivery, making learning opportunities an ever more affordable and available option.

Digital Task Cards: What is Boom Learning℠?

Teachers and homeschool parents: Imagine taking your task cards with you on a tablet or computer. Your student(s) work independently, getting instant feedback on their work, whether correct or incorrect. They even take their spelling test right there in the app! When you get a chance, you check their progress on their digital task cards. At a glance you can see what they need help on and where you need to focus. Which digital task cards do they need to revisit?

Sounds great, doesn’t it? My son and my daughter love learning digitally. Boom Cards are digital task cards that play on any modern browsers (released within the last three years) on interactive whiteboards, desktops, laptops, netbooks, Chromebooks, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and phones, and Kindle-Fire tablets. Boom Cards apps are on The App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Kindle Fire store. And now, you can buy digital task cards right from TeachersPayTeacher’s stores!

See more information about how Boom Cards encourage independent learning in my homeschool. They may be just what you need as well.

Using Technology for Independent Review

I am so excited that my 8-year-old son Raisin is finally becoming mature enough to be a lot more self-directed this year! It’s just in time. This year my daughter is going to be home preschooled, and I also have a soon-to-be-walking baby! It’s going to be crazy enough, so I’m really grateful anytime my son can use technology for independent review of the subjects we’re studying!

Have you started school again yet? We started last week, simply because I want this year to be low-key, fun, and less stress. Days off when we feel like it. No pressure to push through. I’m determined to adopt more of a laid back attitude toward “getting stuff done.” So far, so good!

We utilize the computer and tablet many times during our casual school day. Some people give a limit on screen time, but we do not. For us, screen time is an integral part of our day. The more I use computers and tablets for my son’s independent review, the more I find opportunities to use it!Continue Reading

Teaching with Technology: Stop Motion Videos (Sea Anemones)

We gave new life to our sea animal research project by turning our research information into a stop-motion video!

My son’s science class in our co-op finished learning about the ocean just before break. Although there is not often take-home work, the teacher did in this case give the class an assignment: learn about a sea animal and report back to the class in some sort of presentation (a poster, a pamphlet, etc.). Since I absolutely love everything to do with the Coral Reef, I strongly encouraged him to so something coral reef related. (I would have been happy with something else if he really wanted.

It was finally time to give him all the pieces of my Coral Reef Unit! When he found the drawing component a bit too tedious, we changed is final project into a stop-motion video using a simple app on his tablet!Continue Reading

Using Streaming Movies in Homeschooling to Enhance Learning

Digital Task Cards: What is Boom Learning℠?

Using Technology for Independent Review

Teaching with Technology: Stop Motion Videos (Sea Anemones)

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