If, like me, you were dying to know the difference between a marsh, a swamp and a bog, here’s a link that will sort it all out for you before your next nature walk. If, on the other hand, you’re sound on wetlands, but somewhat confused about our winged insect buddies’ private lives, this site will explain why that old Don Ameche movie was called “Cocoon” rather than “Chrysalis”.
If you’re sick of the same-old, same-old browser and would like something much snazzier, which makes blogging so easy-peasy that you may be inspired to start several more blogs, I urge you to consider my new blog of choice, Flock.
I have the Eco version, but the orginal version is great for anyone who likes the idea of posting to their blog(s) within their browser, being able to share photos, feeds, media streams or anything else seamlessly and effortlessly and so much more that I haven’t even explored it all yet. I’m a big Firefox fan. I’ve been using it since the Mozilla dragon was an egg, which may be why I like Flock so much. It’s built on the Firefox framework and seems to like all the Firefox extensions and add-ons I’ve stuck onto it so far. I especially like the keypad scrambler that encrypts my keystrokes at the kernel level and the “no-flash” option which turns flash into little icons that I can turn on or not, as I wish.
When you tire of playing with Flock, may I suggest you learn a new language or brush up on the ones you slept through in high school at Mango Languages. Like the web site says, “Don’t mangle a language, mango it.”
With a foreign language under your belt, perhaps you’d like to try your hand at some art. For the art-impaired like me or someone young, Carmine’s Landscape Adventure is just the ticket. I opted for the sleepy landscape, but you could go for adventure or a landscape that shows the weather.
Art is nice, but knowledge is power. If, to your chagrin, you find one day that your almost-adult son doesn’t know the fifty states and their capitals, or, worse yet, that you don’t, take heart. Most Americans don’t know how many states there are, never mind their names and major cities. You can learn everything you need to know about the 50 states at any of the web sites on this page. And with that I’ll leave you and return to satisfying my curiosity via the Net. Happy surfing.
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Tags: homeschooling, learning online, unschooling
3 Comments
you speak bloggy forked tongue and remind me my lack of knack for foreign languages let alone tech talk —
we have a bog here in IL, it’s a bog, marsh, prairie and something else all in one place and pre-kids I went on an evening bat walk that was actually pretty darn kids - there were these two kids who knew the name of all the prairie flowers - I was impressed. I personally think I was something botanical in a previous life because sometimes I will see a weed and know it’s name, surprising myself let alone the person with me!!
Wow. Such interesting new sites to explore! And, I thought I’d be spending today doing housework. Apparently not
Holy mothballs, Karen, a bat walk! Now that is cool. Hey, maybe you were a “yarb” woman in a former life, doling out herbal cures and potions to make people better. I wouldn’t be surprised.
I’m a bit linguistically challenged, myself, in spite of two years of Spanish and five years of French - the French was a 60’s education experiment from 3rd grade to 8th grade. However, I can say “mas cervesas, por favor” and once told a French-Canadian co-worker that another woman had put a spell on her husband, while I was trying to tell him that she was pregnant. So much for accelerated foreign language education, I guess.\
Lynn, surely you don’t have to resort to my puny ponderings to escape from housework. I subscribe to the theory whose author escapes me at the moment, “They say housework never killed anyone, but I’m not taking any chances.”
Shine On,
Lill
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