Home schooling used to be for people who travelled too much for their children to attend public school, or people who wanted their children to learn a different curriculum. Today, more and more families are choosing to home school their children because they feel they can provide a better education than public school provides.

Two years ago, my wife Suzanne and I made the choice to home school our son Cory because the public school system was unable to focus enough attention on him to meet his needs. End result, a smart kid was falling father and farther behind. Suzanne does the day to day teaching and Cory has been thriving. I’ve been sitting on the sideline observing and helping out wherever I can.

I am a technical writer by profession and a complete computer geek. I spend my days writing about operating systems and networking and then come home to relax by playing computer games and work on my own Web sites. I’m very interested in ways that software can be used to make processes more efficient. So there I was, watching Suzanne and Cory dealing with print outs, multiple notebooks, lost assignments, and lots of headaches on both sides, and I started thinking why don’t you just use a Web site to organize all this stuff? My wife, bless her, said if you can put together something that meets our needs and make it easy to use, we’ll be happy to try it out.

The opinions offered here are my own and do not reflect any affiliation with any company or organization. I talk about Microsoft products a great deal because much of my technical expertise is there. I will attempt to construct and document other solutions in a variety of price ranges, because like most people involved in home schooling, we don’t have a lot of money to spend on technology to make this work.