Homeschool Community Networking

I am Ann Zeise, your guide to the best and most interesting and useful sites and articles about home education on the web.

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Homeschool Community Networking

* Web Wonk ­ One who spends a lot of time online, subscribing to email lists, web surfing or building websites, posting regularly to message boards, and/or hosting chats, and maybe writing articles and books.

Building Your Support Group Site

Building a Support Website
Join our homeschool webmasters email list. Get help and ideas for building your support group's website.

Do You Yahoo?
Yahoo is easy for any member of your support group or family who is even vaguely internet sauvy to set up what amounts to a full community-type website... and best of all it is free!

Local Site Wish List
What homeschooling families would like to find on web pages from library, parenting, and community organizations.

Making Your Homeschool Support Group Website Special
The very top support group sites do not try to duplicate the efforts of state association sites or comprehensive homeschool websites, but focus instead on what they know that the "Big Guys" do not: their local resources.

Protection Online
Children should never to give out their full name - in fact, let them make up a nickname to use online. Something other than "HotChick12!"

Online Communities

Blogs
Online journals, usually the thoughts, opinions and daily life of a homeschool family.

Chats
Sometimes you just need to talk to someone "live" about homeschooling joys and concerns.

Mail Lists
Email lists to leave questions and messages about homeschooling. Follow the directions carefully.

Message Boards
Places online to leave questions and messages about homeschooling.

Newsletters
Periodic, subscription email publications of helpful homeschooling information.

Online Shorthands - A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling
OFL. My dh does that, too. CUL8R. If you need help with this lingo, look here.

Meeting Offline

Home = Education Conference Photo Album
Meet many of my online buddies, fellow homeschool web wonks, and favorite homeschooling writers.

Online Buddies Bash
You've been corresponding for months online, and now you'd like to meet in real life. Here's a way to organize a casual session during a conference so that you can meet in a safe environment.

Community Building Resources

Developing Your Online Persona
As I look back over my nearly 13 years online, I realize that I have integrated into my real self the more interesting persons I was portraying online.

Free OnlineDatebooks
Share your homeschooling plans online, coordinate events with others, even store files.

Google for Homeschool Resources
Google.com has become the search engine of choice. I use it to research homeschool information for my website and for our homeschooling. Here are some tips to make you a power user.

Homeschool Web Clip Art
Graphic artist Michelle Thoburn drew "homeschool is cool" web clip art just for us. Link back to her please!

Off Topic E-Conversations
Often through the "off topic" chit chat about daily family life, list members build a certain amount of trust.

Web Writing
Teri Brown writes on how to become a paid published writer on the web or for homeschool-related magazines.

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Website Design Products

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Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Microsoft

Features:

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* Enhanced publishing features and options help get your Web pages online more quickly

 

Mac Version

Windows Version

Features:

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* True visual CSS Level 1 and Level 2 authoring and previewing give real-time style rendering and feedback

 

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

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CS3 Upgrade or New

* Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites using both a visual design interface and a streamlined coding environment;
* Create CSS-based web pages with comprehensive tools, including the CSS panel, layout visualization, the Style Rendering toolbar, Browser Compatibility Check, and prebuilt CSS layouts;
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* Integrate XML data using a drag-and-drop workflow.