Starting a new school year
We are working on how users move from one school year to the next in myhomeschoolplan.com and would love your feedback. You can @ reply me on twitter, use the suggestion area, or the comments area in this blog post.
We want it to be super easy, and we want to remove clutter. In other words, we don’t want to automatically move all of your courses from the previous year. What are other key considerations you have for creating a new school year?
Podcasts for Tolkien fans
My kids are huge J.R.R. Tolkien fans. My oldest has read everything including “The Silmarillion.” I often forget to check on itunes for podcasts but checked this past week.
The best way to find good podcasts on itunes is to go to the itunes store, and in the right hand side of the page select ‘power search’ in the quick links box. Then, in the drop-down that says All Results, choose iTunes U so it will filter just for items on iTunes U. In the description area type Tolkien.
Corey Olsen has a series on The Hobbit, and a website, http://www.tolkienprofessor.com/ ; and we downloaded the Tolkien at Oxford podcast, two sessions about Tolkien and language.
Enjoy.
Suggestions
Just a note of thanks and encouragement to all of you. When you are logged in to myhomeschoolplan.com, there is a link at the upper right called suggestions. We use a service called uservoice and we are very happy with it.
You can add an idea, or vote on an existing idea. Currently, reading list has the most votes.
One request I have is if you could use your myhomeschoolplan user id or include an email address. Sometimes I like to get clarification on an idea and if you submit it anonymously, all I can do is comment on the idea and hope you come back and take a look (which is cool if you do.)
So again, thanks for using the suggestions area, keep those ideas come, we really do appreciate it.