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The Eclectic Telegraph: December 2007
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Saturday, December 29, 2007. Second Semester in Your High School? December is always hectic. It's the time when we start to think about any warm weather travel plans we have, but it also the time when we look at what worked the first part of the year and what we are planning to do the second part of the year. Having an acclerated student is always a challenge. Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (OLI). Stanford on iTunes U. ITunes U (launches iTunes). Happy New Year from the Eclectic Telegraph!
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The Eclectic Telegraph: December 2006
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Sunday, December 31, 2006. The Awesome, Ever Amazing, Disappearing Brianiac. By Amy Cortez, Editor - The Eclectic Telegraph. Picture the Looney Tunes character Taz, the Tasmanian devil. If you're parenting a gifted, highly gifted or even profoundly gifted student I am sure you can make the connection. Go ahead and allow yourself that small indulgence of a chuckle at your situation. Then give yourself a high five because that job, parenting a gifted child, is a tiring job. If you are parenting. My biggest...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: November 2008
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Teens and That Parental Chant: "It's Almost Over". Before you leave for work I want to know what your plans are for the week. Make it a list of goals for the week. Get that list on my desk by 10:30. I'm going to do the research paper that's due in my English class this week, I am going to write my TaeKwonDo paper. Those are your plans for the week? So those two papers are going to take 30 to 40 hours to do? I'm not going to write down a list. This from my 16 year old). OK Here'...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: April 2007
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007. So, How Do We Fix the Public School System in Ohio? Do homeschoolers here really care? Because if they [governement officials] are looking to reign in other choices [vouchers] for reasons like:. It's undemocratic," he said, and it signals an abandonment of the public school system. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. Parents fight to keep vouchers. BY DENISE SMITH AMOS, Cincinnati Enquireer, Friday, April 13, 2007. Gunman dead after bloody campus rampage. Study gives teachers barely passin...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: November 2007
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007. The Mystery of Lonely "F". May as well do it just this once- right? How do you measure one's knowledge? We can look at effort applied, we can look at and measure assimilation of an "accepted" base of "facts" about a subject. But what if you have a student that absorbs the obtuse items along with all the "accepted" facts and he prefers to remember and assimilate the obtuse? Does that student get a "failing" grade when we try to measure - say with a standardized test? What if th...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: May 2008
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The Gifted Kid and His Unfinished Projects. By Amy Cortez, Editor Eclectic Telegraph. It's Springtime. The weather is breaking. Summer is around the corner. Lazy days ahead - right? If you're homeschooling a gifted kid, perhaps the lazy days have been around all winter. The gifted student can be the most wonderful individual and the most frustrating individual all within the span of minutes. Why can't he just finish the dang project? The perfectionist ultimately will:. Avoid tryi...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: March 2009
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Thursday, March 26, 2009. But My Kid Wants to Build Robots. Abbreviated selections from my soon to be published book! Life After FIRST Lego League, Upstairs Roomba. The other robot system we have learned from is the Vex Robotics Design System. This set is a bit more complicated and might not be good for small hands, but medium hands with big minds will have a great experience with this. As with Lego. This company supports competitions all over the United States. What is Mechanical Engineering? A subdivi...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: Teens & That Parental Chant: "It's Almost Over"
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Teens and That Parental Chant: "It's Almost Over". Before you leave for work I want to know what your plans are for the week. Make it a list of goals for the week. Get that list on my desk by 10:30. I'm going to do the research paper that's due in my English class this week, I am going to write my TaeKwonDo paper. Those are your plans for the week? So those two papers are going to take 30 to 40 hours to do? I'm not going to write down a list. This from my 16 year old). OK Here'...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: October 2008
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Saturday, October 04, 2008. The Art of Judging Words - Voting on Homeschool Issues. By Amy Cortez, Editor Eclectic Telegraph. I am on a number of homeschool email lists and with a presidential election coming up you'd think they'd be buzzing with discussion of issues. They're not - not really. At least the ones I am on. One of the lists run by one I consider to be the " Yoda. I have been meaning to reply, but haven't been able to craft the right words. Some of us on this particular list are not Christian...
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The Eclectic Telegraph: July 2008
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Summer Pursuits: Year Round Homeschooling. By Amy Cortez, Editor Eclectic Telegraph. Summer. When I was a kid Summer meant watermelons and fireflies, lazy days with best friends. Summer now means a lot of research to find resources and materials for our next year homeschooling. Summer also now means that I get a two week vacation while my student goes to study something totally brain-melting at Purdue University. My student feeds his brain, I paint my toenails. The folks that are ...
