Robert Prieto's talks

Have you wondered about Minecraft? (Or are you already knowledgeable?)
Would you like to see a year in the life of an unschooling family?

This is preliminary information—the final namea haven't settled, but there are two great sessions planed:

(In the words of Colleen:)

Robert is planning on doing a year-in-the-life sort of overview of what it looked like, for us, to follow Robbie's interests. A year's journey sort of thing, he says - or a journey of connections - along those lines. He says he can work on a formal title :-) Birding, cemeteries, Minecon, history, politics, people, etc. and how it all connected and wove together and led to a great big pile of learning and fun for all three of us :-)

And for the other, he was planning on doing something specifically related to the learning and fun that comes specifically from Minecraft.

He's going to do a Powerpoint presentation for each, with photos, screenshots of Minecraft creations, etc. to give himself talking-points, and give folks things to look at while he's talking :-

Colleens writings have enriched the discussions she's been in, increasingly over the past few years and I'm excited to finally get to meet her, and her family, and to see photos. Her husband, Robert is willing to speak, but Colleen doesn't want to. Her writing, though, is available!
http://sandradodd.com/colleenprieto/

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Some art by Robbie (and his dad, too, on the Lego page titles):

http://sandradodd.com/doit
http://sandradodd.com/BoredNoMore
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2012/12/come-let-us-adore-him.html

Karen James

I'm Karen James. I like to make things (karenjamess.blogspot.com). My husband is Doug James. He works in computer graphics at Cornell University (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djames/). He also plays guitar, piano and Starcraft 2. Our son is 11, loves video games, talking about his ideas, running, jumping, twirling. He is wonderfully curious and loves life. Ethan went to a co-op preschool for a couple days a week when we first moved to Ithaca, NY. When he was done with that, he was done with school. We've been unschooling ever since with ever-growing understanding, confidence, and joy.



Karen might be there alone, or Doug and Ethan might be there too for a while.

About "ALLive in Maine"

I've added a bit to the "about" tab:

http://allinmaine.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Please do read this, and if you're inviting others or mentioning this event in a discussion, that might be a good link to use. :-)

Lodging in Camden

In addition to Laurie's list of where to stay…

When working on flights and a rental car for me and Keith, I came upon this list of places to stay in Camden, along with information about the area:

http://wikitravel.org/en/Camden_(Maine)

Don't gawk at the rich people's houses, and if you wait too long or can't afford the local accommodations, try a nearby town. But please don't wait too long! We're going in the same season lots of people go to see beautiful autumn colors, so reserve a room early! (And don't forget to cancel it if you change your mind beforehand.)

A quieter, gentler gathering

When people go to a homeschooling conference, it's likely there will be speakers who aren't homeschoolers and might not even know any unschoolers.

When unschoolers go to homeschooling conferences, the same thing can happen, in that even the homeschooling speakers might know nothing about unschooling.

Time to wind down slowly, and clarify, to laugh and to smile is missing from big conferences. Here, those things are scheduled. After many years of attending and presenting at conferences, I've heard many times that someone came just to hear me, or just to hear the unschooling speakers. At least half the time, too, the room I'm assigned is busy until just before time, and we have to get out quickly, or parents have to leave to get their children.

Read at the tabs above, please, and consider coming to this gathering in Camden, Maine, Friday September 26th and Saturday September 27th 2014.