Luke is an home educating Dad from Auckland who has set up a network for New Zealand home educators. He will be moderating it and has experience in creating online communities. It is a place where all the different home ed groups can put something about themselves. Individual home educators can also join the forum and can interact, ask questions, share resources etc.
What’s the point?
There are so many groups and it hard to know how they fit together. We hope this would become a focal point where everyone is listed in one place. A hub. It is an organic website so the whole thing will change to fit the needs of those who join.
I’ll give an example: I created a group for NCHENZ ( National Council of Home Educators) you can join “the group” on the website. This doesn’t mean you belong to NCHENZ but you can read what NCHENZ is about, ask questions, and explore then if you are interested in actually joining NCHENZ you would go to the NCHENZ website www.nchenz.org.nz and join.
I hope that local groups will put their info up there too, so anyone moving can check out what is happening in their new area. Also those thinking about home ed can see what is going on.
In the general forum all those common questions will be answered and the not so common too.
So please consider joining us at
http://homeeducation.ning.com/
Welcoming all New Zealand home educators.
