CLICK to read article on TODAYshow.com."Carolyn Morrison home-schooled her two children from 1993 to 2004 — and the tools she had available to her then seem primitive today.
'Our computer was used primarily for e-mail, word processing and games, with CD-ROM resources filling in the gaps left by the paltry online reference sites,' she said. 'We even pre-dated Google!'
And for sure, that was before the term 'social networking' was part of the vernacular.
Internet resources now available to parents who home-school their children not only include the vast amount of information that's online; parents are turning to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and blogs geared to their home-schooling interests for help, humor and how-tos.
'What a fantastic blessing that can be to someone who lives an hour's drive from the nearest library or bookstore,' said Morrison, of Marshalltown, Iowa, who has a popular blog, Guilt-Free Homeschooling.
'Online resources have truly shrunk the world to manageable proportions: There is no longer either a time barrier or a distance barrier between people.'
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