Most Technical Communications/ Writing classes just reference a particular source for those kinds of things. Here are a couple of free textbooks: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/ https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/technicalwriting/ Students at that level should be able to locate the information they need in a resource, such as a book. If you don't like either of those books, do an internet search for "technical writing OER" OER stands for Open Educational Resource. It's a huge movement in colleges/ universities right now.

Did anyone recommend Christine’s classes? My STEM kiddo liked her SciFi Lit course: https://www.learningoutsidethebox.net/ it was a breath of fresh air after BT AP Lang.

What are your goals for the course? Tech Comm is one of the courses I teach occasionally. If you find a college syllabus you like, just cover a week’s worth of material over two weeks.

Precalculus. Free, friendly, and written by some "pure math" guys. Covers more than plug-and-chug. https://www.stitz-zeager.com/

I hire work study students. Our max is around 10 hours per week. Our students make minimum wage, but my students have a true “work-study”. They can study during their shifts.

Who is the vendor at each school? (Off list is fine). Also, before accepting, make sure living on-campus with a meal plan is not required. Some schools give awesome financial aid for tuition but hook you with a 4-year-on-campus requirement.

Let me know if you (or anyone here) needs to connect with a Rose-Hulman student.

Ummm. That's been awhile. I'm pretty sure that's the year we did British Lit (America Reads + some full length stuff). We counted Rhetoric Alive as an English elective. She did AP Lang the next year. Pretty sure. I wrote all of this out at one point. I'll see if I can find the post. ETA Okay... It was the World Lit year. Pasting from an old post about thesis writing: We did WWS3 as a stand alone in middle school (w/o doing WWS1 or 2). Kiddo had already done LAoW and we ended the WW3 year with They Say, I Say. It seemed to all compliment each other well. I guess we also did most of America Reads British Lit the year we did WWS3? That's one of the few books dd wanted to keep. The next year we did World Lit using an older Holt textbook that had decent writing assignments in it and also wrote across the curriculum, then AP Lang sophomore year. Comparative SciFi Junior year (last year of high school). I teach/ have taught comp from grades 4 (homeschool co-op) through 300 level college classes, so I maybe inserted thesis writing where needed? I don't recall, but WWS3 suited our needs for that year. It got done. We didn't do every assignment on every page, though. ETA We did Rhetoric Alive with a small group of friends as an elective the year we did World Lit. It made a nice prequel to AP Lang (Blue Tent) the next year. ETA2 late elementary/ middle school was a mash up of Writing & Rhetoric, Lightening Lit American (with composition assignments but not comprehension questions), Windows to the World, and Warriner's 3rd course. DD was accelerated to accommodate a co op group that I taught. It worked okay for her because she really wanted to do LA with a class.

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/topics/creativity-and-design/ Free. I have not used any of the design ones.

Subject Transcript.doc I had trouble with the Excel one. This is what we used last year.

I didn't know AIM existed... I can see the value in this. I wish I had it a few years ago when I was tutoring a very behind 7th grader.

I think she has addition, subtraction, and multiplication pretty solid using the Kate Snow books and lots and lots of drilling. They finished 3rd grade Rod and Staff. I guess they are just now starting the Kate Snow Division book. (Now they all have influenza...I think they will be happy to have 2022 over and done with).

I've been playing with the sample for Foundations today off and on between other things. I looked at some of the videos (okay), looked at the handouts (helpful, might be nice to print sections rather than lessons each time), and did a variety of lessons. I jumped up to the midterm review sections and was annoyed because I got a 60% on one of the reviews mostly because of format of my answers. I had the right answer but the computer did not recognize it. The one I actually missed was me not reading directions. :- ) I think Khan is more annoying in that regard though.

I always felt like the teacher needed to understand math to some degree with MM. To be fair, I haven't looked at it in probably 7 years, but my kiddo really didn't like it.

I'm a retired homeschool mom. My last kiddo was very mathy so I am many years removed from elementary math. I am (sort of jokingly) school administrator for my "niece" who is 10 almost 11. They have found their groove with adapted Memoria Press... except for math. They've bumped along with a combo of Kate Snow's operations books and Rod and Staff, but have been crisis homeschooling for the last 12 months with multiple rounds of Covid/ long Covid (POTS/ cyclic vomiting in the 10 year old) and various other issues. I think kiddo is solid on the 4 operations and has most of the rest of early elementary math from life (fractions, measuring, etc.) Mom only went as far as prealgebra in high school (We went to a terrible high school. I personally relearned math just ahead of my homeschooled dd). Kiddo10 is very smart and already on the older side for her grade. She was adopted with some health problems early on so they went with a better-late-than-early philosophy to starting school. She's an old soul and the last kid at home. I can see her not wanting to stay home until she's 19. Kiddo says she hates math and it's a fight to get her to do it. She wants to be a veterinarian and mom is connecting her with a college friend over Christmas Break who is in vet school to talk to her about how important math is. Dad can help some with math. I can too, but not a lot since I live an hour away and work full time. My thought is to have mom continue with math games and such, which kiddo will willingly play, but have her start on Unlock Math Foundations. My thought is that even if it takes her 18 months to do it, she'll be on track for prealgebra when her age grade is 7th. Mom and Dad will have "skin in the game" because they have to pay for it. (That and I don't love Khan after about 5th grade math). Has anyone used this? I am playing with a free trail, but since I relearned math myself with Singapore/Khan/Derek Owens, I'm not sure how it would work for a student who finds it to be at least some new content. Is there another "foundations" type course that would give her solid prep for prealgebra? Remember, Mom has very little number sense outside of day to day math, but kiddo does not need a spiral of math through middle school. I think she can master a topic and move on.

I do a lot of work with free/ OER resources at my university/ consortium. These just came up on an e-list. I have not used them, but they include Hindi, Khmer, Urdu, Arabic, and Chinese. At a glance, the speaking/ audio sections of the Arabic appear to be Egyptian Arabic and the Chinese is adapted from a Mandarin text (Gateway to Chinese). The authors appear to be native speakers. https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/catalog/msulib Hope this is helpful to someone.

Week 13. I got an email this morning from a student asking how to access page 76 of the (free online OER) textbook. The text is listed, with a link, in the first paragraph of the first page of the syllabus. The entire book has been assigned at this point in the course. (It's only about 200 pages with each chapter relevant to something we've covered already). Each assignment is listed in the schedule. Which is attached to the syllabus.

My never again airline is Allegient.

I do have an IRL homeschool friend whose 9 year developed POTS after having Covid for first time last winter. Her doctor said that they are seeing more of this in kids shortly after having Covid. ETA- her dd was not vaccinated. My hubby works with old folks. The ones who recover don't seem to have any lingering effects. All his oldsters are vaccinated.

Thanks all. She's going to give it a go with Spirit. Not really my first choice, but they are direct flights, she doesn't have any luggage, and she's flexible if the flight delays or cancels. I'll be annoyed if it cancels, but her friend is minutes from the airport and her adult brother is minutes from the other airport.

I had it twice in 6 weeks- July and September. I was vaccinated but not boosted. I probably would not have known if I hadn't tested due to immune compromised family. I was only tired for a couple hours each time. Instead of losing taste and smell, I got... more. My formerly annoying-but-take-a-benedryl-and-get-on-with-it allergies bloomed into something that looks a lot like LTP Syndrome (allergic to most plant based foods). I carry an epi-pen and have an appointment with an allergist in January. I'm hoping it will fade like others' taste and smell issues.

One of my IRL friends had to pull the plug on this for her then 7 year old. I don't know the details, but I guess ponies are kind of snarky and her kiddo was picking it up. My teens laughed and told me that there's a "cult" of teen boys- "bronies" who watch it. 🤷‍♀️

Yep. Domestic flight. I'll see if I can book it for her. It's on Spirit.

Dd17 wants to see some friends in New York over Thanksgiving... but she can't seem to book her ticket. When I look at the policies, they seem to want an adult to walk her to the gate. She's going straight from college. Is this going to be a problem. Anyone BTDT?

You may need to "shop" a bit for a school if you want to bring in as many credits as possible. One of the reasons my dd graduated early was that as an engineering student she was pretty much out of transferrable DE she could do. She had one class left that she could take that would transfer directly. ETA- I think engineering programs are pickier in general because of ABET accreditation. I think she only had one class that went in undistributed, and we know that when she took it. (Business applications).