Photostream idea: Home schoolroom show and tell?

Longtime readers know I do not make "homeschooling blogs" a regular part of my blog reading diet.  It tends to make me restless and unhappy about all the things we are not doing (as opposed to happy and peaceful about all the cool things we are doing).

The exception is when I am actually searching for inspiration and ideas, particularly about something specific.  And late July is a great time for that, because the school year is still a few weeks away and the possibilities don't seem so constricted.

I thought of that when I happened upon an interesting photostream this morning.   Lifehacker has this Flickr "Workspace Show and Tell" which is mostly a set of annotated pictures of cool home office setups.

Now what I would like to see is a similar show and tell for home schoolroom setups. Homeschoolers with Flickr accounts could post photos, explain the ages of the children, how the schoolroom fits into the larger home, and tell why the space works for them.

Yes, this is one of those things where I throw it at the Internet and say, "Somebody should set this up." I've never used Flickr and I'm afraid if I did it, nobody would come to my party. Anybody else interested?

 

UPDATE:  Dorian Speed of Scrutinies and Convolare Design is possibly going to help me put this together.  If so it will be the first time I accomplished anything via Google+.  In return I will tell her what color to paint her dining room.


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8 responses to “Photostream idea: Home schoolroom show and tell?”

  1. Good idea. But how about just a carnival of homeschool rooms? People can post the link in your combox to wherever they saw fit to post their pics. You could eventually make a mega-post tour if you were feeling crazy.
    [That said, I don’t have a homeschool room. I have a homeschool house. But maybe I could borrow someone’s camera and take pics of the relevant sites.]

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  2. I know a lot of people who have homeschool houses. So my thoughts are it could be to show the various workspaces/storage solutions/decor that works.
    E.G. using a big laminated world map as a major focal point of the (ahem) “art” in my living room.

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  3. It sounds like you don’t want to put a whole lot of work into it because this is just a seasonal thing, so you’ll probably not want to go this way. But… if you decide to go with Flickr, you can invite other Flickr users who already have photos of homeschool rooms posted in their sets to add them to your pool. When I was adding quilting photos on a regular basis, I was asked to add a few of them to other people’s photo pools.
    A quick search for photos tagged with homeschool and homeschool room found some photos already there.
    Oh I just saw your update. Dorian knows all the ins and outs of Flickr. Her domestic church Flickr pool is great.

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  4. Hey, thanks! We could do a mega-post tour, too. I like the idea of a photo pool because it is easier for lazy people to browse…
    Let’s get this party started!

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  5. Here’s the photo pool at Flickr. I tried to contribute something valuable, but the truth is that I desperately need other people to contribute so that I can have some hope of learning from them.

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    bearing

    Ok, I joined the group. How about i upload some photos and add some commentary over the weekend — anyone else eavesdropping can too — and then we publicize it Monday?

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  7. Sounds like a great plan!

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    bearing

    How do you go about asking other people on Flickr if you can steal their photos for your photo pool? I did what Melanie did (searched for homeschool rooms) and nearly died of covetousness.
    For, um, the photos.

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