January 21, noon at my house, chat about unschooling.
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.
Announcements, notes and transcripts of Sandra Dodd's unschooling chats
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Chat on January 21, a Thursday
I'm sorry to be having a flakey season, but I am.
Some of the people who responded about chats preferred Thursday.
This week I'm sick with a head cold and am spending most of my time happily in bed. I don't mind, but sitting up isn't comfortable.
Next week, Thursday January 14 is Marty's 27th birthday. Holly will be here to help me make food for all our extended family. It will be the first time we're all together without extra people.
The week after that, the third Thursday, noon in New Mexico, I'll be here. The topic can be progress or questions since the last chat days, and ideas for future chat topics. People children are all older, and we've lived through some changes, many of us, and a few holidays. Come and share successes.
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.
Some of the people who responded about chats preferred Thursday.
This week I'm sick with a head cold and am spending most of my time happily in bed. I don't mind, but sitting up isn't comfortable.
Next week, Thursday January 14 is Marty's 27th birthday. Holly will be here to help me make food for all our extended family. It will be the first time we're all together without extra people.
The week after that, the third Thursday, noon in New Mexico, I'll be here. The topic can be progress or questions since the last chat days, and ideas for future chat topics. People children are all older, and we've lived through some changes, many of us, and a few holidays. Come and share successes.
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.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
A chat transcript, Openness to Experience
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!
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!
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.
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