Sean Novak

Category: Homeschool

My wife and I home school our children. I have grant ambitions to provide a great education and create tools to help other homeschoolers provide great educations to their little ones.

  • Homeschool web app Work in progress.

    Lately I’m building a topics hierarchy. It could otherwise be called categories, or taxonomy, or whatever else, but for some reason, “topics” seems to fit the bill.

    This is a first run at the UI, basically I need it to add, edit, and remove a nested hierarchy of topics. Only admin users will see this, so it doesn’t have to be pretty, just functional.

    Each topic has a color, which I suppose should trickle down to it’s child topics. This way there will be some visual separation among the different lessons.

    Here I have some initial topics, generated by ChatGPT, these will certainly change. I may use KhanAcademy as a template. They have certainly put careful consideration into their taxonomy.

    Also, pay no attention to the branding. I’m still undecided between, “Homeschool Link (homeschool.ink)” or “Learnalot.net”.

    I would love your opinon @ x.com

  • ChatGPT for Homeschool Planning.

    I’ve been absolutely blown away by ChatGPT. I’m still reeling by the implications of it’s abilities. I’m hoping it only improves from here, as I suspect it will be dumbed down as it starts to impact some high-level professional job positions.

    There are quite a few ways that we might use ChatGPT to plan for homeschool. It’s GREAT at generating lists. Now, our primary task is simply to ask good questions.

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  • Lessons Learned, First Year of Homeschool in Review

    Ahh Summer! We are currently on our Summer migration North to Maine, from Florida. Now is a good time to revisit the past year in review. Spoiler alert, it was a huge success. In this short article I’ll cover where we started, what worked, and how we adapted through our first year of homeschooling our daughter, Eva.

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