Homeschooling

Welcome Homeschoolers!

FreshBrain is a great resource for use in your program. It is progressive, educational, safe, fun and FREE.

FreshBrain provides a safe social-networking-based website where teens can explore, connect, create, and share with technology.  In the FreshBrain environment teens participate in fun and educational activities and projects while learning the technology and 21st century skills that they need to be successful.

Benefits

  • Great way to provide something interesting, educational and fun
  • Complete, providing Activities, Projects and Learning paths with Tools and support required
  • Great way to work remotely - do joint projects, work with others
  • FREE!

Examples

Homeschooling is both amazing and challenging.  You can provide your child with the type of education that you believe is best for them.  But it can be a daunting task to stay current with technology, provide fun and educational marterial and insure that they have the opportunity to work with others.  Here are some examples where FreshBrain can help - all available FREE.

Current Technology

FreshBrain strives to provide teens with the larest technology. We scour the internet for new tools and technology to make available to our teens across a wide variety of technology areas.

Some wonderful examples are:

  • GIMP - a graphic editing program that provides very similar capabilities to Photoshop.
  • SAM - stop motion animation tool that is impressive yet easy to use.
  • Glogster - a website that allows for the creation of multimedia posters.
  • Audacity - sound recording and editing.

The list goes on and on.  Check out the Tools section on FreshBrain.

Fun and Educational Content

It isn't enough to have good tools and a great platform (freshbrain.org).  You also need good projects, activities and learning paths that are fun and educational.   FreshBrain has a great base of content and is continually adding more!

Check out Getting Started for ways to find this content.

Collaboration

The FreshBrain website (freshbrain.org) is designed to enable safe interaction and collaboration.  It is a social networking platform where teens can see what others have done, ask questions through forums, and work together on projects.

This is especially valuable for homeschooling.  It allows teens to use the latest technology to work together on projects virtually.  There is no need to be in a room together, or even in the same state!

Some features of the site that support this collaboration are:

  • Projects - collaborative environment to work together, share files, track status through updates.
  • Forums - the place to have discussions, ask and answer questions.
  • Chat - the abilityfor two friends to have a conversation online
  • Friends - a way to connect with others who have similar interests

Getting Started

If this sounds interesting to you, please check out our Getting Started page.

If you would like to talk to us, please contact us - homeschooling@freshbrain.org.