How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
1. The login box on the home page has an option to create a new account. You can click that link or click here.
2. On the registration page, enter the require information, marked by a red asterisk. You will have the option to join some of our public groups if you wish.
3. Agree to our Terms of Service by marking the relevant checkboxes.
4. Enter the CAPTCHA code (used to thwart spambots) and click Create new account. read more »
We don't :-) Requiring people to prove that they're unschoolers opens up a big can of worms, especially trying to define unschooling. The elitism and exclusivity of requiring another human's approval to join just rubs us the wrong way as well. We'll put our trust in people and let the site grow organically. If a prospective member isn't sure of what unschooling is (or perhaps refers to it by a different name), there are some links on the registration page to the following unschooling websites that should help: read more »
On the home page there is a User login area on the right. You can check the Remember me to stay logged in. You can also login at www.unschoold.com/member.
After logging in, you will see an arrow pointing down in the navigation bar next to blogs. If you hover over blogs without clicking, the menu will drop down and show the option to write a blog entry.
You can also go to your control panel and click the new blog entry icon.
1. Go to your account page. (If you see a login page, please login first :-))
2. Click the edit tab under your username.
3. Scroll down the page until you see the Blog Information section. Edit the Blog Title and Blog Description.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Submit
All public forums are listed at www.unschoold.com/forums. Each group has its' own forum. Private groups and forums are not listed.
Forums are connected to groups. To create a private forum, you must create a private group. On the group creation page, be sure to check the box labelled private group. You will not be able to check that box if list in groups directory is checked.
1. Go to www.unschoold.com/groups/create to create a group.
2. Enter the group's title (aka group name) and description. You have the options of tagging the group with keywords and entering a mission statement as well.
3. In the Subscription requests section, select Moderated, invite only or closed.
4. Below that there are several checkboxes. Uncheck list in groups directory. This will prevent the group from being listed publically. read more »
Go to www.unschoold.com/groups/my. You can also click the group activity to get an overview of all activity in your groups.
You can write a group entry one of three ways:
1. In the navigation bar, hover over groups and select write a group entry from the dropdown menu. You can select which of your groups the entry appears in by selecting them from the Audience menu. You can select multiple groups by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking (Command key on Macs). read more »
Yes - and it's easier than copying/pasting multiple group email addresses :-) There are two ways to do it:
1. In the navigation bar, hover over groups and select write a group entry from the dropdown menu. You can select which of your groups the entry appears in by selecting them from the Audience menu. You can select multiple groups by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking (Command key on Macs). read more »
Tags help organize things and make them easy to find. This FAQ page is organized by tags. Questions appear multiple times depending on the tags used. For example, if you wanted to find out how to create a private forum, you might think the keyword should be forum, while someone else may think the keyword should be private. By tagging the question with both keywords, the answer can be found under both forum and private because both tags are relevant to the question. read more »
A group is similar to the concept behind groups at Yahoo or Google - a collection of people with a shared interest. You have a shared messages (like a group blog), a group forum and group polls. Groups can be totally open & public or completely private.
Yes. All the Google ads are enabled for revenue sharing. We believe that websites that rely on members should give something back to the people who make the site what it is. Most social networking sites collect the ad revenue while the members build the sites - we disagree with that. Here's how to do it:
1) Get a Google Adsense account from www.google.com/adsense
2) You'll be assigned a publisher ID that looks something like pub-9999999999999
3) Go to your account, click the Edit tab, and then click *private information*. read more »
We thought site members would appreciate not seeing ads, so most Google ads are visible to anonymous visitors only.
It's a convenient collection of icons that link to everything you do on the site, including editing your profile, writing content, checking your group activity & private messages, inviting friends and logging out.
Yes. There are 3 ways to do it:
1. Go to the member's profile page. At the bottom of their profile is a Private messages section. Click the Write a private message link to send a message to that member.
2. Go to your control panel and click the my private messages icon. You will be taken to your private message inbox. Click the Write a new message at the bottom. You can type in a member name or select someone you've previously messaged from the Contacts dropdown menu. read more »
