Please welcome this week’s Featured Homeschooler Carol from My Heart’s Desire ! You live in my favorite place in the world, Colorado! Tell us about your nature studies. Nature study for us is taking a walk on the 75 acres where we live, driving down the road to one of the lakes or hiking...

…and which ones aren’t? I have found that incorporating a little movement in our day goes a long way toward providing an outlet for energy and aiding learning for an active child. Colin, who’s 7, loves to have physical ways of learning or practicing a concept. Occasionally I’...

Via Sibrenne's blog (in Dutch) I found this great video illustrating what visual thinking is. I think I'm a visual thinker and that makes it hard for me to listen to podcasts without getting distracted. Videos work much better! After my months summer holiday I forgot one of my bankpass codes and I f...

It’s that time of year again. No, not “the holiday season�. I mean, it is holiday time, but for professors it doesn’t start feeling like holiday time until final grades are in and the books are closed on another semester. No, for me, it’s paper-grading time, the time of year when I’m rem...

This video presentation will guide you to discover new ways to make your message heard loud and clear. It will show you how to stay on topic and never get lost in your notes. You will be able to fully get to grips with the techniques for building and holding rapport with your audience and keeping th...

From our friends at TeachingTips.com- The Art of Learning Better: 101 Tips to Find and Fit Your Learning Style Sometimes, information is hard to understand just because it’s presented in a manner that just doesn’t quite appeal to the way we like to learn best. While it isn’t always possible to...