My new hope is that I can get back to making some technology posts. God willing, the family will be together again after a month of separation. The plan is to buy our new homeschool computer for Christmas this year and kick the previously described plan into gear of creating a great homeschool computer using free (as in beer), open source software. With our move, there will be a little bit of a change in emphasis. The goal will be to create a “distributed homeschool environment”. I will restate the goals and then start putting the system together.
Distributed Homeschool Environment
We are currently in the process of moving to the Dallas, Texas. My parents and all my siblings live in the Portland, Oregon (Linux centeral!) and my wife’s parents and siblings all live in the Monterrey, Mexico. Kelly has a homeschool penpal in Vermont, we have good friends in San Diego, one of my old friends is homeschooling his family of four kids in Arkansas, etc., etc. We want them all to be able to participate as fully as possible in the homeschool. I have not really thought about all the things I will need to do to move this forward, but I will start doing that and try to document it as I go.