General Homeschooling Online Resources
http://www.hea.asn.au/
Home Education Association Inc. (HEA) has been formed to support, promote and encourage the practice of home education. Great source of articles, support available, discounts for homeschoolers, insurance for events.
http://www.shen.org.au/
Sydney Home Education Network facilitating communication and interaction among home educators in the greater Sydney region. Regular events organised.
http://aussiehomeschool.com/
really helpful forums and classifieds
http://www.design-your-homeschool.com/
On the design-your-homeschool website you can find a step by step guide to designing your unique homeschool.
Charlotte Mason Online Resources
http://www.simplycharlottemason.com
http://www.amblesideonline.org – have put together a curriculum to follow through all school years. Plus has free download of Charlotte Mason’s original writings.
http://www.ohpeacefulday.blogspot.com is a blog with the journey of a family doing Amblesideonline, with added Australian content.
HEAPS of yahoo groups including:
Amblesideonline
CMandFriends-ANZ
Natural Learning Online Resources
Websites:
http://homeschoolaustralia.beverleypaine.com/articles/naturallearningindex.html
and
http://homeschoolaustralia.beverleypaine.com/articles/unschoolingindex.html
A great Australian based website with lots of articles and links on Natural Learning and Unschooling (also on Homeschooling in general)
http://www.holtgws.com/index.html
A collection of writings from Holt and other prominent natural learning and unschooling advocates
and
http://www.holtgws.com/growingwithoutsc.html
Home of the Growing Without Schooling Magazine
http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/
The home of Life Learning Magazine – a great resource! Avilable on line and in print. Back issues also available.
http://www.unschooling.com/index.shtml
American based with lots of essays and articles from experienced unschooling families
Online forums/email discussion lists:
Australian based discussion forums:
http://joyouslearning.info/
http://liberatedlearning.info/phpbb/
Australian based email discussion group owned by Beverley Paine:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningnaturally/
American based email discussion groups but with international participation:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlwaysLearning/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlwaysUnschooled/
Blogs:
Australian:
http://hablog.beverleypaine.com/
http://artunderthefigtree.blogspot.com/
http://karismaskids.blogspot.com/
http://valleysprite.blogspot.com/
American:
http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/
http://www.sandradodd.com/unschooling
Life Learning Blog Directory – A selection of unschooling blogs mainly American but still relevant and inspirational for all readers
http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/blogdirectory.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
An inspiring talk by a school reformist on the TED website.