2012 February 16

Yet another change in home ed styles.

February 16, 2012 By Jax Blunt 22 Comments

Over the years I’ve tried a wide variety of styles of home education. We’ve been structured, used bits of curriculum, tried out Montessori, unschooled, gone childled. And nothing has really worked for any length of time. Which is why we keep changing. I’d love to be able to unschool, but it really really doesn’t work […]

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Carnival of Differences.

February 16, 2012 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

When I thought of doing a carnival of differences, I wasn’t sure I would get much feedback from the blogging world. I’ve been proved wrong, and have been overwhelmed by the support I’ve had so far, on the posts I’ve shared already, on the posts I’ve been sent to include and on the sharing and […]

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Make sure Jetpack G+ publicize settings work for you.
Just a quick post covering the G+ sharing in Jetpack publicize settings, but it caught me out at the weekend, so I thought I’d share in case anyone else has done the same thing. When you set up Jetpack publicize you can connect a number of different networks, including Google+. I’d done this for my […] The post Make sure Jetpack G+ publicize settings work fo
How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress website.
So, you’ve listened to the talks on self hosting your website, you’ve read around on the issues that using wordpress.com or blogger or other free systems might imply and you’ve decided to take the leap. You know you need a domain name, and a host. But what are those things, where do you get them, […] The post How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress
Twitter cards for blogspot users
I’ve previously written on implementing twitter cards on wordpress and in a comment on that post was asked if it could be achieved for blogger. The answer is of course yes, and I found a number of articles claiming to achieve it, but none really seemed straightforward to me, so here’s my own recipe. (To […] The post Twitter cards for blogspot users appeared