Make some time to take in the sites ;)

If you're a homeschooler or an educator of any kind, or you're just a little geaky with the cool stuff online, you have to check out skoool, Learning and Teaching Technology. Yes it's mispelled. I don't know why they do that. It's an Intel project that's been implemented in countries all over the world in several different languages. It's done in conjunction with each countries Ministry of Education but it's accessible worldwide for free. For some reason, there's no portal in the U.S., but we can still use it (insert a smiley face here).

Most sites are Science and Math based tutorials and interactive content. The best places to check it out are through the Irish portal at http://www.skoool.ie/, where it has the most available content for "junior cycle" or "senior cycle", that's the same as "key stage 2 and key stage 3" at the UK portal http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk/index.aspx and what we would call junior and senior high. If you head over to the Australian website, the presentation is not nearly as cool, but there is interactive content of the same caliber available for students as young as 4-9 (Hey that's the range they give). About 5 new portals have popped up since I first came across this stuff last year, so check it out now, then check back later at http://www.skoool.com/ to see how it's grown. This kind of content and availability is what I think the web is really all about.