Home Education and Technology
It’s time for another TOS Blog Cruise. This week’s question asks: “Do you use technology (iPods, Computers, Videos, Digi. Cams,etc.) in your home school?” Yes! We do use technology in our home school. Slowly, over the course of several years we’ve added more and more technology to our home school. We started with simple computer games to reinforce what we were learning. The girls had games for learning math facts or playing with the idea of typing or even learning some spelling words. As we added more Sonlight Cores to our day, I needed help with reading aloud. Technology to the rescue in the form of audio books! I found myself checking to see which books were available on CD’s. More time passed and we discovered that the computer could be used to play downloadable audio books directly from our library using Overdrive.com. So now we check Overdrive.com before checking the regular library. For the 2008-2009 school year we added a computer based curriculum to our home s