Teaching homeschool students requires the parent to be well prepared for any eventuality. There is a good chance that whatever you have planned for the day, will not be what you end up actually teaching. At times you personally may not be available even though you intended to be. In these cases you can use these web based tools to ensure that your students always have something to study.
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Google Drive
This is an online storage space provided to you courtesy Google. If you have a gmail id then you can activate your Google Drive easily. You can use the drive to upload worksheets of different subjects and grades. In case you find something that you would like to use with your child in the current grade or at a later stage, just save the document. You can label the folders with grades and subject names to help you store and access the worksheets with ease.
Google Sides
You made a great MS PowerPoint presentation to explain a certain topic to your elder one and now you need to teach it to your second child, but for all your hunting you just can’t find it. Use Google Slides to make the lessons which you know you will be re-using. That way you can easily access the lesson online even if your computer hard disk at home crashes or gets infected with some virus. Plus presentation slides help make a great visual impact on the homeschool students enabling them to learn well.
Build a Website
It really is not so difficult to build a website with different sections for a specific subject that you want to teach. You can prerecord videos and upload them to You Tube, then set up the links on your website along with links to the worksheets associated with that specific topic. There are a number of places where you can build websites for free including on Google Sites, Weebly and WordPress. Just add the capsules you want to use and fill them up. Its a great way to have easy access to all the study material you have worked on. Plus you can share the website in part with other homeschooling families as well.
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