Homeschool Minutes: 06/16/09

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Create an e-card and help out a charity!

Best of all, it's free to you! Go to FrostyCard.com and create an e-card and Wendy's will donate .25 to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. In addition, all Father's Day Weekend, for each Frosty you buy at Wendy's, they will donate .50!

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From the web site:

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99 Texting Acronyms Every Parent Should Know

How do you text the words "Potty Mouth?"

The folks at I Hate the Media have a post about how kids are using technology, as well as a list of 99 common acronyms most parents are ignorant of. I am posting the article, but will give a link to the posting containing the list of acronyms, since a lot of them are offensive:

Texting, instant messaging and chat rooms use a strange, new language that’s filled with acronyms designed to quickly communicate and easily disguise a myriad of sex and drug terminology. It’s beyond the comprehension of most adults.
Some of the acronyms have been created so that kids can continue their conversation with friends while a parent is watching over their shoulder, confident the old folks are clueless. For example, if you saw your daughter sending the message, “PAW GYPO & Ill GNOC later” would you know she just scheduled a time for a n@ked video camera session after you go to bed for the night? And what’s more frightening than not knowing when your 13-year old keyed LMIRL in a chat room, it meant “Let’s meet in real life?”

So here you go. Here’s the Rosetta Stone of texting/chatting/emailing. A comprehensive guide to acronyms, phrases and lingo to look for on your kid’s phone or computer. Some are outright disgusting and we hope you never see your kids use them. Others are harmless on their own but still important to know in context.
If you feel guilty taking a peek at your little darling’s computer and phone, remember one thing: You paid for them.
LOLTWOM (Laughing out loud, they won’t outsmart me).

The list of 99 acronyms.

Education Overhaul = A lot of "tracking"

President Obama on overhaul of U.S. education:

"I want to be able to track every child throughout their educational trajectory, so we know what they are doing. Secondly, I want to track children back to teachers, so we know the impact the teachers are having on those children. And third, I want to be able to track those students back to teacher, and teachers back to the schools of education, so we can understand which schools of education and which feeder programs are producing the teachers that are producing the students that had the most gain.”

National standards here we come.

H/T Home Where They Belong)

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A Contest to Enter!

Kris at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers is giving away a copy of the book, I am Learning all the Time, and a "Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers On Board" decal (from Distictive Decals) for your vehicle window to two lucky winners. (Each winner will receive a book and a decal.)

Go to Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers to find out how to enter! It's easy!