Comments on: microscopes and more

By: mamacrow

mamacrow — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:46:52 +0000

‘SB was in an odd mood – i think the child/adult changes in her brain not knowing where to put themselves!’

brilliant, that’s exactly it! (my eldest is 15)

aural story telling is an ancient tradition that far pre-dates writing… I don’t think it will ever truly die! It’s an intrinsic part of being human, a way to preserve our group identity as humans

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:06:13 +0000

I have been thinking of getting my blog made up into one of those printed books for just those reasons.

WedEd looks great as always, how lovely to have a group of you with skills to share.

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:50:26 +0000

ooh, and only just realised you have a gravatar michelle v apposite

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:00:10 +0000

youare right, the blog didn’t start as a message to the future, it started as a way to interact with other distant home educators. but, i think it is a possible voice to the future. there will be so many voices i think, photos etc, that our descendants are oe likely to be drowned in info

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:18:48 +0000

“The 1086 Domesday Book, instigated by William the Conqueror, is still intact and available to be read by qualified researchers in the Public Record Office. In 1986 the BBC created a new Domesday Book about the state of the nation, costing Â£2.5 million. It is now unreadable. It contained 25,000 maps, 50,000 pictures, 60 minutes of footage, and millions of words, but it was made on special disks which could only be read in the BBC micro computer. There are only a few of these left in existence, and most of them don’t work. This Domesday Book Mark 2 lasted less than 16 years.”
http://www.dpconline.org/events/previous-events/306-digital-longevity

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:14:35 +0000

I used to blog so that other people could read and get to know us, such that when out and about with other home edders who I’d got to know a bit through their blogs, it wasn’t all one sided. Then it was also a way of tracking achievements for LA report writing. Now it is to remind myself of what we do as I have a shocking memory, serves to remind me of the fab days we have, else they get lost in the mists of time. C likes me to blog her life, so she will nag sometimes and M reads it as he likes to read what we’ve been up to. Even if he was there with us he likes to read about the day!

It’s not a record for time immemorial. If I thought that I’d want to be having printed copies done as I think the electronic formats could be corrupted or in the future a different format used entirely such that it would not be possible for the data to be accessed.

By: zoe

zoe — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:30:34 +0000

It was a lovely day, great that everyone could make it SB did a great job with her arts award and am looking forward to more kid planned art Re family history, I love listening to my auntie and parents telling stories of long dead relatives and have been meaning to spend time with my auntie going through the many photos that belonged to my nan and ft grandma,scrapbooking and writing notes/stories to hand down. Really must sort that out. Also why I blog really.

By: Caroline (Frogmum/TMFH)

Caroline (Frogmum/TMFH) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:18:43 +0000

re your first paragraph ~ I think that’s why I blog and why I encourage my children to ~ it’s a record for time immemorial ( I hope) of us, who we are/were and our journey in life. I like that I still have childhood diaries stashed away somewhere, but I never kept it up for long. My blog is now… almost over 8 years old!