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It's finished! Or is it?
© Beverley Paine, October 2005, updated April 2008 and again in July 2011 For over a year I've been threatening to renovate my Homeschool Australia website. Well, it's finally done! You're all invited to take a peek and tell me what you think! Started in 1997 this website has undergone a couple of previous major renovations and I suspect will endure a few more before I finally hang up my homeschooling hat! Three years later and I realised that my websites were in a mess again. I thought they had grown too big to manage using simple HTML code. People kept urging me to switch to a Content Management System, such as those used by blogs or forums. We spent a few months looking into different option, but I decided that I have neither the time or inclination to learn how to write php code. Without knowing some of the basic elements of coding in php or database management I would have trouble fixing any hiccups in the programs, plus it would be difficult to tweak the design of my sites. We simply don't have enough hours in each day! Using programs such as WordPress or Simple Machines was attractive at first, but I am wary of losing even the tiniest bit of control over the website. I like the way we are working now, even though I haven't been very good at keeping the sites in good order. We may be using dinosaur technology but it's simple and effective and to my permaculture way of thinking, that is a good idea. Naturally my site won't have the whizz bang interactivity of more modern software internet options, but that suits me too. What it came down to in the end was determining, once and for all, what I wanted to get out of maintaining and building my suite of websites. There are, I have discovered, a tool I use to collect and collate my thoughts on home education; a springboard to the writing of my Practical Homeschooling Booklet Series. And for sharing what I know with the thousands of homeschooling families across Australia. I have dozens of articles in the draft stage waiting to be polished and added to this website, and dozens more for our curriculum website, plus plans to reinstigate the Homeschool Australia online newsletter. We're not finished yet!
And now it is July 2011. A week ago a dear friend suggested I concentrate on making the content of this site more available to home educating families. I intend to take her good advice and over the coming months will release several new mini-Ebooks. To get there though means I need to do some much needed reorganising and tidying on my much neglected suite of Homeschool Australia websites. With over 700 pages this has been a daunting task - which is why I've put it off for so long! I came back from holiday with a nasty cold though and unable to do much else, I've been comfortably lodged on the couch, mouse in hand, doing the tedious and mind numbing work hand building a site map that we enable me to quickly build those mini-Ebooks... as well as keep my unruly site in hand! The past three years has seen me immerse completely in helping the Home Education Association of Australia - a national organisation - both on the committee and as publications coordinator and editor. I leave the Association in good hands with a new committee and having helped to establish a quarterly magazine, fortnightly news bulletin, new upgraded website (soon to be launched!) and annual printed resource directory. It is time to focus once again on the home front and continue once again to provide my loyal readers with the service and attention they deserve. Early this year we passed our self-publishing business over to our daughter who, as a stay-at-home mum of young children will continue to make my books and booklets available at affordable prices. Do drop into Always Learning Books occasionally to keep up with our new titles! You may have noticed that I've added a new section to the site - Quick Start Guide to Homeschooling. That's for those in a hurry! The rest of you are welcome to browse through my new Sitemap - this lists ALL of the articles on this site, now incorporating those from my very popular Australian Homeschool Curriculum website. To help put bread on the table we are inviting homeschooling and educational suppliers to advertise - in a discrete way - on our site. We're keeping it low key and inexpensive, but most of all, all adverts must be relevant to homeschooling families. As a low income family we rely on what we earn from royalties on my books, income from this site and Google Adsense (pays the internet costs). So, if you are feeling inclined, take a look at our advertising packages. Thank you very much for supporting this site - your feedback is most appreciated!
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home.
In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and was a committee member for three years during which time she edited and produced the HEA Newsletter, Stepping Stones for Home Educators magazine, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications.
If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Homeschool Australia Facebook page.nor do they endorse or recommend products (other than their own) listed in contributed articles, pages, or advertisements.