And The Winners Are...

Such a fright! Another school year gone by. The Homestead School has had a great time testing lots of awesome homeschool products as part of The Old Schoolhouse's Homeschool Crew.

The whole Crew recently voted for their favorites in several different categories and a few of Mrs. D's and son's favorites made the list:

Favorite Science Product => Eagle’s Wings-Considering God’s Creation


Favorite Math Product => I See Cards-Pyramath


Favorite Reading Instruction Product => Talking Fingers


Favorite Preschool Product => Go Go Kabongo


Favorite Elementary Product => Speekee


Favorite Special Needs Product => See-N-Read


Favorite Christian Education Product => Apologia


Best Technology Resource => Collectorz


Best Children’s Book => Kregel Publications-Circle C Beginnings


Best Hands-On Resource => Corps of Re-Discovery


Most Unique Resource => GoTrybe


Most Family-Oriented Product => Growing Healthy Homes-Nutrition 101

We're excited to see many of our favorites here.  They each got a blue ribbon (above) to display.  Check out the full list on The Homeschool Crew's Official Blog here.

We're also proud to announce that Mrs. D and son will be on next year's Homeschool Crew, testing and telling about more great homeschool products with The Old Schoolhouse.  Looking forward to a few weeks of rest, and then starting in again;)

Collectorz - All Your Books At Your Fingertips

For all those with ginormous collections of books, hehemm, homeschoolers...here is a terrific way to organize them.  Collectorz.com offers database software to organize your books, music, movies, comics, games, mp3s, and photos.  We received Book Collector for our review.  Just input your ISBN or scan it using one of three barcode scanners offered by the company.  Up pops cover art, author, publisher, title, publication date, plot summary and other book data from the company's online data base.  You can then edit and add details, such as purchase price, where you bought it, who you loaned it to, your own plot summary and notes and just about anything else you want to remember about the book.

For just $29.95 plus $19.95 for the most economical scanner, you can have your books organized better than the local library's.  You can also create and export a page to your website or blog, to share or sell your books.

Anyone with a large media collection will benefit from using these databases and maybe organizing your collection on the shelf a bit.  How many times have you racked your brain, knowing you saw that book somewhere but can't remember where?  Simply add a location note to your list, and you'll find it in no time!  Ebooks and audio books can also be cataloged with Book Collector.

I'm having so much fun, I think I'll try photos next.  Now if they would just come up with one for home videos...

We received this product free of charge in return for publishing our opinion.  No other compensation was received for this review.

Read more reviews about Collectorz.com here:  Homeschool Crew