Animation

Animation goodness! The tutorials provided in the links below are a great to start a journey with this wonderful software. Python is embedded within Blender which  is a 3D open source (free) software. Learn graphic design and movie making with the links below:
         *Blender Guru
         *Blender Tutorials

Music Theory For kids

Visit The Piano Discoveries Theory Tutorials  and learn more fun music theory!

Graphic Design Course

Week 1
Illustrator tutorials


Week 2

Illustrator
How to vectorize an image Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator cs5

Photoshop
Patrick Brown - Digital Artist & illustrator - Speed Painting Tutorial & Reel

Graphic Design for beginners

If your kids want to learn graphic design you might be interested in Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe CS6):

How To Get Started with Adobe Creative Cloud - 10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do

After you install it then you want to start exploring and learning the world of graphic design with all the tools offered with the Creative Tools:


How To Get Started With Photoshop CS6 - 10 Things Beginners Want to Know How To Do

How To Get Started with Adobe Illustrator CS6 - 10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do

How To Get Started with Lightroom 4 - 10 Things Beginners Want To Know

How To Get Started With Adobe InDesign CS6 - 10 Things Beginners Want To Know


And make sure to explore more of Terry White's Adobe tutorials.



Adobe Flash Course

Please study and tackle each as described below:


Week 1-2
Basic Flash Tutorials

Week 3
Adobe Flash CS5 Tutorials


Animation

Great job opportunities for those that know how to use Python when it comes to the animation industry. Python is an open source software and just like goody gum drops are sweet and delicious the best part about Python is that it is free!



Animation goodness! The tutorials provided in the links below are a great to start a journey with this wonderful software. Python is embedded within Blender which  is a 3D open source (free) software. Learn graphic design and movie making with the links below:
         *Blender Tutorials

Classical Conversations inquiry

Is there an online community with this method of learning? Can students take a few subjects from CC to complement their other studies? What if a student wants to take other languages than latin in highschool?



We have a specially designed online community known as "CC Connected." Classical Conversations combines the classical method of learning with a biblical worldview. It is a method: Classical Conversations families meet in communities where parents train parents to implement home-centered education well.

We empower and support parents not only through our Classical Conversations Communities across the country but also through our online community, Parent Practicums, and academic retreats. All of these services ultimately equip parents to educate their children with the classical tools of learning and a biblical worldview so that they might impact the world for God’s glory. You are your children's primary teacher, and so you ultimately decide what curriculum to use outside of CC. I encourage you to attend one of our free parent practicums to gain a better understanding of CC. You can find one happening near you by visiting this site: http://parentpracticum.com. Blessings 

Classical Conversations Challege 1 (9th grade level)

Literary Interpretation from Charlotte's Web for spring semester Challenge I.

 

2010 Challenge I Shakespeare presentation -Shakespeare's life

 

Recursos para Homeschooling

Ahi varios estilos de enseñanza. Tradicional ( como escuela publicas), privada, y homeschooling. Muchos homeschoolers usan uno o incorporan varios aspectos de diferentes estilos. Entre la educacion privada y homeschooling encontraras estilos muy estructurados y otros prefieren estilos mas flexibles. Unos se enfocan en mucho lectura y escrictura.  Otros en aprendizaje por medio de una clase con explicaion verbal. Otros prefieren aprender haciendo. En estos estilos ves los diferentes sentidos que se usan para aprender: la vista, el oido, y el tacto. Cada mente aprende diferente y eso es lo que como educadores en casa tratamos de detectar con nuestros hijos para poder ayudarles a amar a aprender.
Otros estilos de educacion privada y/o de homeschooling:
Usan mucha memorizacion y musica. Tambien les gusta aprender haciendo. Se enfocan en el poder retener informacion y comunicar esa informacion en forma verbal y en accion. Es un curriculo Cristiano. Encuentra una comunidad cerca a tu casa.
Es una forma de aprender haciendo. Es interactivo. Establece uno con una perspectiva Cristiana
         
Counting Coconuts
          
Living Montessori Now.
Los niños aprenden seleccionando de una variedad de entornos pre-seleccionados de aprendizaje. Ellos escogen que aprender y cuanto tiempo gastar en ese aprendizaje. El ejemplo en el video es en ecuador en una  economia diferente a la economia de una ciudad moderna. Asegurarse que los entornos pre-seleccionados tengan una perspectiva Cristiana y que sean alog que les beneficiara en su futuro y en la economia en la que  van a decidir vivir cuando grandes. Una economia donde ahi agricultura es diferente a una donde ahi tecnologia.
           
 Con este metodo el estudiante selecciona lo que quiere aprender. Es bueno proveerle con materiales y recursos que le ayden a su futuro. No quiere decir que pueden pereziar todo el dia. Pero pueden gastar todo el tiempo que quieran en esa materia(s) de interes. Cuando se trata de estudios avanzados de secundaria y universidad la preparacion es primordial. Estos estudiantes son motivados y se aseguran que aprenden todo lo uqe es necesario para su futuro. Varios emprendedores de empresa son "unschoolers". 

En esta pagina de internet puedes aprender de este metodo y ellos tambien tienen recursos de como implementarlo en la barra de seleccion a mano izquierda de la   pagina. Veras que tienen diferentes grados. Me gustan alguans ideas de ahi. especialmente las de dictado o de actividades manuales. 

Music Theory



 Tips and Tricks:





Memorize



What happens to a balloon released into the air?

The kids and their uncle released a balloon into the air last night after celebrating my nephew's birthday. So today the little ones wondered what could have happened to the balloon. We talked about different posssibilities. Then one of them help me find this youtube video. It is really cool!




 Here is more fun about space:

Science off the Sphere: Yo-Yos in Space

Chris Hadfield on how eyesight is affected in space

Drinking in space station



Classical Conversations

Click Classical Conversations to check out some good schooling material on Latin, Science, Grammar, and Geography for kids. Explore the playlist contained in above link.


The following link has a playlist full of videos on Classical Converstions for the upper grades.
Classical conversations for youth