Homeschool Zoo Annex: Educating for technology

Monday, July 20, 2009

Educating for technology

In this day and age, it's important for homeschool families to include some technology and computer savvy in their curricula. Building is one good way to introduce your children to html, java, and php languages. It's also a good way to let them learn to design web pages in a way that's interesting and appealing to readers.

Setting up a website can be as easy as using one of the free servers or even purchasing a domain and getting hosting. It's pretty inexpensive to get these things and they can teach your child a world about producing pages for others to access and read.

One of the big rewards of creating web sites or blogs is to see how many people are visiting the site. It's fun to see how many visitors you've had each day and to learn that some have subscribed to your site updates.

Experimenting with various keywords to see if they are productive seo tools can help your child learn about future business and marketing tools he or she may need as he graduates and enters his own career. It's even fun to enter your own keywords into a search engine to see if your web site or blog ranks in the top ten hits for that word or topic.