I consider myself an unschooler, as you might have guessed from the domain name. As of April 2007, however, this website has very little to do with unschooling. There are tons of resources out there for unschoolers, and this page is inteded to collect a few.

Please begin with your local library and librarians. I love libraries. Libraries are the awesomest thing in the world. And librarians are crazy people who you can go to and say, "Help me find information about war photography" and they'll help you. University libraries can be nice as well, but mostly I like their databases of journal articles. So yeah. Start with libraries.

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• Wikipedia, of course. I don't take anything here as absolute truth at face value, but the greatest thing about Wikipedia is the links that lead to other links. Tonight I started with James Nachtwey and ended up at the Open Architecture Network. Their offsite links at the bottom of each page frequently open up productive avenues of research.
• W3 Schools is where I learned HTML and CSS and where you should too.
• Project Gutenberg is an incredible collection of books in the public domain. Think Shakespeare, Austen, Alcott, oh man, just about everything written before Walt Disney.

Video

• The TED talks are videos of amazing people talking about amazing things.
• PBS's NOVA puts many of its programs online in conviniently short segments.

Also:The Internet Archive has:
• cached versions of past websites,
• movies (documentaries, old cartoons, art movies, Charlie Chaplin, "What To Do In A Zombie Attack", etc),
• audio including the Live Music Archive which may or may not be a learning resource per se but has recordings of thousands of live music shows, radio programs, recordings of the Naropa classes which include things like Alan Ginsburg reading poetry, a couple hundred audio books, etc.
• and text. Yay text. I like text.

And BBC Languages has all kinds of resources for learning French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Greek, and more! Yes, more. Like Urdu.

Alligator Boogaloo helped me learn ukulele. A handy-dandy compendium of chords and lyrics, with even handier-dandier chord diagrams on the side of each one.