laughing lioness Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 What virtual courses will your high schooler be doing and how are you scheduling it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 We're doing Lukeion Latin 1a. This is a weekly class, with homework. Set class times. We're also doing OSU German Online German 2. I wasn't happy with how long it has taken us to get through German 1. So this year, I'll be printing out ALL of the work assignments at the beginning of the course and dividing it up by how much I want done by the end of each month. The kids can always work ahead, but if they are behind, it will mean they don't have liberty for free time activities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyS Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 We'll be using: -Lukeion Latin 2 -Home School Connections Election Class (8 week course about the election, scheduled around and after the election, I am very excited about this one) -Yale American Revolution (we've actually been using this and I have to say we find the lecturer very engaging) -Course Repository: AP American Govt/Pol and AP US Hist. Wow. Until I wrote it out like that, I didn't realize we were doing so much online. Hmm.:001_unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 My son will be using: - the second half of Destinos (www.learner.org) for Spanish II along with some extra grammar practice - the latter part of the American history course at www.hippocampus.org In the second semester, the plan is for him to do two MIT OCW courses, Kitchen Chemistry and one of the introductory computer programming offerings. I haven't finished scheduling Spanish yet, but I think it works out to a video a week supplemented with readings and written exercises from the text and grammar book. That allows us to take a few weeks off for projects or writing assignments or exams. I pondered just expanding the syllabus on the MIT OCW course (essentially taking two weeks to do each chunk, since their course is designed for a single semester), but it didn't work out neatly with our schedule. For American history, I went through the list of lessons and topics, decided which ones I wanted to use, added them up and divided that by the number of weeks in our school year. It works out to about four per week. Then, I matched up the readings and other resources I want to use and put those in the right weeks. I'm using lots of other free online resources, but those are the only ones that are full courses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 I'm using lots of other free online resources, but those are the only ones that are full courses. Jenny, Keep talking to me ;)...what else are ya using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Jenny, Keep talking to me ;)...what else are ya using? Okay, let's see. I'm using a few of the videos from the Georgia Public Broadcasting chemistry course: http://www.gpb.org/chemistry-physics/students/all I'm using those to supplement the free CK12 chemistry text here: http://www.ck12.org/ I'm going to have him do some of the simulations on this site: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/chemistry/general And, of course, I'm adding some of the chemistry-themed Khan Academy videos, too. For American history, in addition to the Hippo Campus course, we'll do some of the lessons here: http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/ For American government, I'm planning to have him play with some of the games here: www.icivics.org Creative writing in the first semester will be largely the Young Writers Program materials from http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ For art history, I'm supplementing excerpts from The Annotated Mona Lisa with a series of short videos here: http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ For music history, he'll read sections of the text my daughter brought home from college and will also listen to the appropriate pieces of music via videos on YouTube. (I'm tossing in a few podcasts from www.classicsforkids.com, too.) I think that's about it for next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourOaks Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 For High School this year here is what my dd has scheduled virtual online: FreedomProject Education Advanced Economics 1 & 2 FreedomProject Education Logic 2 (Material Logic) Veritas Press Academy Omnibus 3 Primary Memoria Press Composition 1 (2nd semester) MyHomeschoolMathClass (Jann in TX) Algebra 2 Spanish 2 live online with a friend of mine who taught Spanish 1 last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourOaks Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Oops, forgot a couple. . . As part of her American Govt she will be doing the Constitution 101 Course from Hillsdale College I just signed her up for CurrClick Live Newsletter Class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Okay, let's see. I'm using a few of the videos from the Georgia Public Broadcasting chemistry course: http://www.gpb.org/chemistry-physics/students/all I'm using those to supplement the free CK12 chemistry text here: http://www.ck12.org/ I'm going to have him do some of the simulations on this site: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/chemistry/general And, of course, I'm adding some of the chemistry-themed Khan Academy videos, too. For American history, in addition to the Hippo Campus course, we'll do some of the lessons here: http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/ For American government, I'm planning to have him play with some of the games here: www.icivics.org Creative writing in the first semester will be largely the Young Writers Program materials from http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ For art history, I'm supplementing excerpts from The Annotated Mona Lisa with a series of short videos here: http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ For music history, he'll read sections of the text my daughter brought home from college and will also listen to the appropriate pieces of music via videos on YouTube. (I'm tossing in a few podcasts from www.classicsforkids.com, too.) I think that's about it for next year. I have a question about learner.org. When you click the symbol do you only get an audio version unless you pay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I have a question about learner.org. When you click the symbol do you only get an audio version unless you pay? No, it's free to use the videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 No, it's free to use the videos. I here audio but see no video. I was listening to the western Tradition. What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I here audio but see no video. I was listening to the western Tradition. What am I doing wrong? For me it opens in a new browser window, but not on the browser bar at the top. It's stacked on my shortcut bar at the bottom, for some reason. If that's not your problem, I have no clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 DD 14 will be doing three (or four) classes through Florida Virtual School: Honors Algebra II AP Human Geography AP Art History She was supposed to do driver's ed this summer, but we couldn't fit it in with the move and a vacation coming up soon. She may do that sometime this year through FLVS or we may just wait until next summer. I am not doing any scheduling for dd this year, but FLVS generally does a good job of keeping kids on track. They split each class into two semesters. They are self-paced, so the only requirement I've given her is that she finish semester one of each class before Christmas break or else she will need to continue to work on them through her break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) DS is going to be doing: Lone Pine Classical School for Latin 3 OKState Spanish Online for Spanish 3 (and when we're done with 3 I think we'll drop it in favor of just reading on his own until next year) Kinetic Books Physics Calculus videos from NCSU (but not enrolled - just using their online videos and the textbook on our own) Probably one more AoPS class for AMC exam prep A Coursera course from UPenn for Greek and Roman mythology The only at home classes we're doing next year are Environmental Science (and volunteering with a local water quality group), and History and Literature of the Great Lakes. As far as scheduling, Latin has its own schedule, the water testing is going to take a morning a week (currently three, but when school starts we'll drop back), and the rest is free-form... I made up a syllabus of deadlines for various parts, but it's mostly up to him how he gets things done. Edited July 18, 2012 by KAR120C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I here audio but see no video. I was listening to the western Tradition. What am I doing wrong? Huh. I don't know. As someone else said, the video players opens in its own little window. Is it possible it's behind whatever else you have on your screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Huh. I don't know. As someone else said, the video players opens in its own little window. Is it possible it's behind whatever else you have on your screen? It seems only some of them work by opening a new window. I am using Google Chrome which has Adobe Flash Player built in on a brand new computer. I'm not sure what is going on. I'll have to investigate it more later on this evening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumiller Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 My son will be using: In the second semester, the plan is for him to do two MIT OCW courses, Kitchen Chemistry and one of the introductory computer programming offerings. Wow, Jenny! I spent a good part of my day yesterday looking over the MIT OCW options and the two you mentioned above are exactly what I decided on for my son. :D I'm even thinking of looking more seriously at their German OCW offerings. I briefly scanned it yesterday, but my brain was too fried to make a decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Wow, Jenny! I spent a good part of my day yesterday looking over the MIT OCW options and the two you mentioned above are exactly what I decided on for my son. :D I'm even thinking of looking more seriously at their German OCW offerings. I briefly scanned it yesterday, but my brain was too fried to make a decision. That's funny! I guess, as they say, great minds think alike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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