From February 2014, a chat transcript.
http://chattranscripts.blogspot.com/2014/02/openness-to-experience.html
I finished editing it because I was adding something to a web page, and notice the link was still awaiting completion.
http://sandradodd.com/open
There is the page on openness. I added something to the bottom, from a topic that's been stirred up at Radical Unschooling Info.
SO!! I feel guilty about not doing chats and am willing to start them up again in January, if there's enough interest. My favorite time is Wednesday at noon-at-my-house, partly because it's super easy to remember, middle of day middle of week. That's dinnertime/evening in Europe, 11:00 a.m. West Coast of north America, 2:00 East.
If there are regulars who can't make that time, please propose another time.
If there's interest, please try to stay for as much of the chat as possible. Part of my frustration was people coming in for half and hour and leaving, and all different half hours. We could do one hour instead of two, if that would help people be there.
If there's not enough interest, I could let the chat room go. Donations covered the cost for another year, so it's there until October 2016, when I might let it fade. Maybe facebook is fast enough to cover the desire for immediate feedback and we don't need a chatroom anymore!
Please write if you have opinions, either to me by e-mail or in comments at the blog. If you got this by e-mail, click the title and I think it will take you there. Thanks!
Announcements, notes and transcripts of Sandra Dodd's unschooling chats
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Chat hiatus continues
I just haven't gotten myself back in the mood.
I was sick for a few weeks, then Keith was incapacitated for a while, and when he was better, I got sick again. But it's not just that...
Turns out, I guess, I'm tired of chats. And I'm sorry to say so. But the two hours of the chat plus prep (however slight) and the clean-up (NOT slight, when it involves editing and coding and publishing a chat) takes longer than two hours.
Jill suggests maybe if there's a really good topic, maybe once a month would be good. The chat room is over $10 a month. Maybe that's okay. Maybe that much to "rent a room" isn't bad.
I think if it's not weekly and regular, people will forget. But rather than having a small regular crowd, it might be better to get good topics and advertise widely. I'll think. Input is welcome.
It seems to me to be a better use of time (more satisfying to me, and useful to a greater number of people) for me to work on my webpage, and on Just Add Light and Stir, and to respond on discussions.
Every week (or more often) I discover a web page I started and never finished or announced. This "deprivation" page is an example.
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com
Here's another unfinished page:
http://sandradodd.com/barrage
It is partly, and will (maybe someday) be more links to things from 1994, 1995, that we used to send out on AOL. Here's a transcript of a chat from 1995. Twenty years. I know I missed a few years, but there were weeks with two or three chats a week, too. That's a lot of years.
http://sandradodd.com/chats/detox
So there's some excuses for me and some reading for you! Have fun. :-)
Sandra
I was sick for a few weeks, then Keith was incapacitated for a while, and when he was better, I got sick again. But it's not just that...
Turns out, I guess, I'm tired of chats. And I'm sorry to say so. But the two hours of the chat plus prep (however slight) and the clean-up (NOT slight, when it involves editing and coding and publishing a chat) takes longer than two hours.
Jill suggests maybe if there's a really good topic, maybe once a month would be good. The chat room is over $10 a month. Maybe that's okay. Maybe that much to "rent a room" isn't bad.
I think if it's not weekly and regular, people will forget. But rather than having a small regular crowd, it might be better to get good topics and advertise widely. I'll think. Input is welcome.
It seems to me to be a better use of time (more satisfying to me, and useful to a greater number of people) for me to work on my webpage, and on Just Add Light and Stir, and to respond on discussions.
Every week (or more often) I discover a web page I started and never finished or announced. This "deprivation" page is an example.
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com
Here's another unfinished page:
http://sandradodd.com/barrage
It is partly, and will (maybe someday) be more links to things from 1994, 1995, that we used to send out on AOL. Here's a transcript of a chat from 1995. Twenty years. I know I missed a few years, but there were weeks with two or three chats a week, too. That's a lot of years.
http://sandradodd.com/chats/detox
So there's some excuses for me and some reading for you! Have fun. :-)
Sandra
Monday, August 17, 2015
Sick day, sorry
I'm too sick to think about a chat this week.
I went back to urgent care after five days of up and down, changing symptoms.
They x-rayed me and gave me four new and different meds (said scrap the Plan A antibiotics).
I'm not recovering quickly or easily.
If people want to go into the chatroom without me, that's no problem, anytime!
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
I went back to urgent care after five days of up and down, changing symptoms.
They x-rayed me and gave me four new and different meds (said scrap the Plan A antibiotics).
I'm not recovering quickly or easily.
If people want to go into the chatroom without me, that's no problem, anytime!
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
August 12, chat about Water
Wednesday's chat will be about this page I'm working on, about water.
http://sandradodd.com/water
It's not about water itself, but about effects of, uses of, magic of, unschooling-views-of water. Water in an unschooling life.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
http://sandradodd.com/water
It's not about water itself, but about effects of, uses of, magic of, unschooling-views-of water. Water in an unschooling life.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, August 3, 2015
Not this week, NEXT week
No chat August 5.
August 12, I'll try to be in the chat room for at least an hour.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
August 12, I'll try to be in the chat room for at least an hour.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
No chat, still, have a nice Wednesday
No chat, still, have a nice Wednesday.
I like not chatting.
Maybe by mid-August I'll miss it.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
I like not chatting.
Maybe by mid-August I'll miss it.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
I don't feel good about such small, general chats, and I really don't have the energy to do topic chats.
Thanks for those who've been coming, but I think I'd rather everyone put energy into either Always Learning or Radical Unschooling Info. More people will benefit.
If you're in one of those discussions and things seem too quiet for you, tell a story or bring up something that others can comment on. Maybe Wednesdays, at least, you could remember to put some questions or comments at one of those places.
So no chats for the next five weeks, at least. Vacation until the second week or August, or maybe longer.
Thanks!
Thanks for those who've been coming, but I think I'd rather everyone put energy into either Always Learning or Radical Unschooling Info. More people will benefit.
If you're in one of those discussions and things seem too quiet for you, tell a story or bring up something that others can comment on. Maybe Wednesdays, at least, you could remember to put some questions or comments at one of those places.
So no chats for the next five weeks, at least. Vacation until the second week or August, or maybe longer.
Thanks!
Monday, June 29, 2015
July 1, I'll be in the chatroom at the regular time
I'm tired of the work of special topics, but if you want to shoot the breeze (or discuss something important) with a few unschoolers, come on. 9:30 my time (Albuquerque), so do what you need to do to find the time at your house.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, June 22, 2015
June 24, generic general unschooling chat
Chat, okay, nothing special. :-)
Wednesday, June 24
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Wednesday, June 24
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, June 15, 2015
June 17, Wednesday chat, plain
No special topic. Unschooling chat, vanilla.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, June 8, 2015
June 10, two hours, chat
No special topic, same Wednesday time!
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, June 1, 2015
June 3, non-particular unschooling chat
Sorry I forgot to send an announcement last week. I don't want to do a topic and a transcript, but I'm willing to chat for two hours this Wednesday, June 3. :-)
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
May 20 CHAT! Helping new unschoolers
Helping new unschoolers.
What do they think they need?
What do they need?
Think about how it helps us (how it helps you) to help others.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
What do they think they need?
What do they need?
Think about how it helps us (how it helps you) to help others.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
An antique chat transcript
Ideal Homeschooling Moment, from 1996. I've put up a chat that came up in files saved on my computer.
No live chat this week, so tide yourselves over with that, or something. Or feel free to chat without me—I'm having a great vacation, and will be spending Wednesday with a six year old girl, because Kirby and Destiny (who are living with me and Keith for a while) have jobs beginning probably on Tuesday.
Also, on Wednesday, Holly will be starting a new job 250 miles from her recent job. She's moving from Socorro, New Mexico to Chama, New Mexico (where my sister lives) for the summer, at least, and will be working here: High Country Restaurant and Saloon.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
No live chat this week, so tide yourselves over with that, or something. Or feel free to chat without me—I'm having a great vacation, and will be spending Wednesday with a six year old girl, because Kirby and Destiny (who are living with me and Keith for a while) have jobs beginning probably on Tuesday.
Also, on Wednesday, Holly will be starting a new job 250 miles from her recent job. She's moving from Socorro, New Mexico to Chama, New Mexico (where my sister lives) for the summer, at least, and will be working here: High Country Restaurant and Saloon.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, April 13, 2015
April, May... Happy days!
My chat hiatus continues! I don't want to do chats for a while. Please read here, instead:
Just Add Light and Stir
Thinking Sticks: Playing with Ideas
Or listen to some of Amy Childs' quarter-hour shows about unschooling. Lots have me in there, somewhere. The Unschooling Life Podcast
The chatroom is there, so if anyone feels like showing up, or inviting friends (any time) to use that room, please do
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Just Add Light and Stir
Thinking Sticks: Playing with Ideas
Or listen to some of Amy Childs' quarter-hour shows about unschooling. Lots have me in there, somewhere. The Unschooling Life Podcast
The chatroom is there, so if anyone feels like showing up, or inviting friends (any time) to use that room, please do
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Chat vacation
No official unschooling chats for a while, but the room is there, so if anyone feels like showing up, or inviting friends (any time) to use that room, please do.
Thanks,
Sandra
Thanks,
Sandra
Monday, March 30, 2015
Deschooling ideas (clever new ones!), April 1
Please bring a NEW deschooling question (your own, or one you've heard), and a different sort of unschooling idea than the regular ones we repeat all the time. Let's mix it up.
What can a family do to begin to recover from school, and what can someone do when after a few years a school-thought or fear jumps up and shakes the family?
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
What can a family do to begin to recover from school, and what can someone do when after a few years a school-thought or fear jumps up and shakes the family?
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
March 25, general unschooling chat
No fancy topic for the last Wednesday in March. Come and share your unschooling news or progress.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Seeing Unschooling More Clearly, March 18
Read this, please, before the chat: http://sandradodd.com/seeingit
The chat will be about a plateau reached after deschooling, in which a parent moves from looking for schoolish things to perceiving the same world in a new way.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
The chat will be about a plateau reached after deschooling, in which a parent moves from looking for schoolish things to perceiving the same world in a new way.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Just a chat, not a topic chat, March 11
Come to the chat room and tell us what's happening. Bring a joke or a bit of trivia, or ask a question we can toss around.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
March 4 chat on Spirituality
Sometimes it seems that the changes people make as they deschool and then become competent, confident unschoolers tend toward enlightenment of one sort and another.
It's a little embarrassing for me to even propose the topic, yet I think it's very true that profound changes in a person's awareness and perspective ARE in the realm of the spirit.
There's this, to think about, but please bring stories and ideas. http://sandradodd.com/spirituality
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
It's a little embarrassing for me to even propose the topic, yet I think it's very true that profound changes in a person's awareness and perspective ARE in the realm of the spirit.
There's this, to think about, but please bring stories and ideas. http://sandradodd.com/spirituality
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Unschooling Chat, February 25, 2014
No particular topic—we decided a couple of weeks ago to go to topic chats on first and third Wednesdays, and general discussion of whatever on 2nd, 4th and (when there is one) 5th Wednesdays, for a while!
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
February 18, Collections
Collections—hobbies that involve collections, or something like that! Kids' collections, parents' collections, inherited collections or those of friends, or museums.... What's with collecting? What's it good for?
If you have a minute, maybe think back or look around for collections of things in history, or other places.
If there were to be a link, I suppose Focus, Hobbies and Obsessions. There was a chat on that (the page from The Big Book) on January 31, 2013
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you have a minute, maybe think back or look around for collections of things in history, or other places.
If there were to be a link, I suppose Focus, Hobbies and Obsessions. There was a chat on that (the page from The Big Book) on January 31, 2013
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
February 11 chat
Last week we decided to go to two topic-chats per month for a while, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. The 2nd and 4th (and 5th, when applicable) will be general-whatever.
This week is a 2nd, whatever-topic week!
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
This week is a 2nd, whatever-topic week!
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Topics chat, February 4 (idea-getting)
It would be good to decide some chat topics in advance. Also I'm considering a place for more serious topics in some other forum and would like advice and ideas for where, and what to call it.
And if people have current questions, we'll have time for that, too.
Thanks!
Sandra
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
And if people have current questions, we'll have time for that, too.
Thanks!
Sandra
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Humor, laughter, joy, January 28 chat
Uplifting, lifting up, happy amusement.
Ideas for, and defense of, laughter in an unschooling life.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Ideas for, and defense of, laughter in an unschooling life.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Games, January 21 chat
Games—Little, big, free, expensive, traditional, spontaneous, formal, international. Thoughts about what "games" are.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Monday, January 12, 2015
Little bits January 14 chat
Little bits make big.... bits.
Think of or dig up a saying/adage/dicho/proverb that suggests lots of little somethings making up a big thing. Whether they're negative or positive, let's play with that idea. Something about growth or perspective, or it might be about packrattery or barnacles on a boat
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Think of or dig up a saying/adage/dicho/proverb that suggests lots of little somethings making up a big thing. Whether they're negative or positive, let's play with that idea. Something about growth or perspective, or it might be about packrattery or barnacles on a boat
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Stuck! Stuck somehow... January 7, 2015 chat
Feeling stuck?
Stuck no car?
Stuck because of winter?
Stuck in a routine?
Stuck in your progress?
Bring some ideas, get some ideas.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Stuck no car?
Stuck because of winter?
Stuck in a routine?
Stuck in your progress?
Bring some ideas, get some ideas.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
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