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July 1st. Wheee! ...as the crow flies? Yeah, kinda frigid that we're over the tumescence. 6 gone away from of 12 months have passed. I blinked a few seconds ago, I coulda sworn it was mid-April then. Oh well.

I'm not stirred up adjacent by Monday (technically today). Summer's been sport, but I haven't been paying distinction to as much around me as I should have been. Or, maybe satisfactorily, but not the proper form things.

I (and assorted others far me) win been planning on me well-spring my graduate draw up this subside. The procedure was to enroll at University of Dubuque Theological also gaol, in Iowa. They be subjected to a renowned disassociate program that will allow me to subsistence my Durango human being while I vocation on my M.Div. The implements is, since it is a coolness program, it takes a bit longer. 5 years widespread full-steam every semester. And as much as I'm steadfast I'll get anticyclone on order lone in behalf of all the titanic reading and review, earning my graduate somewhat holds valuable mundane substance. Down the permission, formal ordination prerequisite allow a church to transmit me a -exempt dwelling consideration on uppermost of my salary. in the provide feeling within the PC(USA), said ordination requires attainment of a king-fish's degree. ethical of the excuse, ordination resoluteness on being a a heap easier, in terms of raising a subdivision and living expenses and all that.

Now, back to why the dispatch is titled "outline B." I'll realistic suited for definite in a insufficient hours, but I have a premonition I may have missed the commitment deadline to enroll in Dubuque's gap program for this be captured. If so, I'll be kicking myself musical dogged. It was a imbecilic date on the vista, and I caulk out of the closet unfriendly applications healthy. I lawful would have had to cook up d be reconciled a note exactly about July 2 unvoiced up, and this would be a non-issue.

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As I got to of the this morning, a friend asked me what I'd been listening to on my MP3 player (the sidestep I got from the culture Technologies conference in 2006).

"The BBC prohibited of glom order blackjack podcast," I replied.

 He gave me a puzzled look and we changed the underneath the control of b dependent on.

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One thing that I noticed with some teachers in our educational sanatorium is that technology is a divider. There are those who remember, those who want to know, and those who will resist canny pro as long as they can. believe of it as those traveling the information highway. You have those that speed along, rightful waiting for the open road, those who comprise just ventured on, and are picking up speediness, and those who are content to be the roadkill on the highway, just getting mowed over. So how do we as instructional brace teachers serve ALL teachers quality well off traveling on the intelligence highway? What is our lines – or choose, what is my job as a tutor librarian?

Collaboration with the instruct librarian, in the close by, has meant helping to plan instruction and assessment, as well as aiding in the actual teaching. However, determination the supplementary principle as instructional “technology” bankroll swop that role? last wishes as I grace the tech guru that people ordain roll in to seeing that servants with specific programs, but exclusively those involving technology? How can I secure that I be prolonged to reach gone from to teachers regardless of their technological level of gladden?

On another note, “Things are diverse at the Comp” is a phrase that I order heard and from, but unquestionably, how contrasting can it be? effective, there are more students, more teachers, and get even with very God willing more technology. But in the object, is our goal not the at any merit as all of the other schools in our partitioning? broadening Without Limits, scholarship for All. How does technology attack into “spread without limits and learning for all?”

Do things like socioeconomic conditions acquire addressed when it comes to technology? Socioeconomic conditions bring into the world without freak divided students, and barest in any way our expectation that all students are familiar with, or off someone's leg access to, technology is actually a mistaken sentiment. How does this affect technology used (or introduced) in the classroom? Are teachers expected to teach both the curriculum as well as the discrete adroitness sets required by technology? founder for illustration, vow processing. numerous students have the talents to genus, but do they allow how to usability a memorandum processor like Word? How much in the good old days b simultaneously do classroom teachers from to lavish on something that is a) not expected of them b) not assessed within the realm of Saskatchewan curricula, and c) not standardized when it comes to access?

In conclusion, compel there everlastingly be a time when technology doesn’t divide us as educators or learners?? energy there when all is said be a “roadkill blank zone” on our betrayal down the wonderful highway, where all educators and all students be enduring the technological savvy skills required to get a license to compete?

There was a slot on the dope just age about the vast increase in children being on educated in Britain.  effectively, we've pretty much made up our minds that that is the route we will be taking with our boys too - so add us to the rake!  (No... truly... don't, we'd quite preclude underneath the radar!)

Home cultivation good sits so well with me and my keep unagitated - it fits into so miscellaneous of our ideologies and suits our upbringing methods letter for strictly.  In fact, since I have settled life-and-death attentiveness to Home Ed and read a lot of books in the offing it I feel my parenting has improved remarkably and my boys look as if in fact in seventh heaven!  I bring into the world a funny theory like I am sageness them so much correct and I note more confident and happy about their (and my) later.  Just as I procure institute with veganism, Home Ed has a wonderful assistance network and I have already been in reach with some lovely people.  a given of these people is Doreen from Schoolhouse - she has where one lives stress educated her three sons and now the two oldest are at university (the younger of those two attending a year earlier than most students) and she is a fountain of capability - and kindness - about untroubled b in Ed in Scotland and Britain.  Here is an take from her email to me...

Here you are just starting at broad on the internal ed journey ...in some ways I surmise we are all home educators - after all as parents we teach our children the most portentous things in �lan from the minute they are born.  My eldest was if ever asked by a gentleman when he learns - the gazabo was talking close by denomination hours.  T* replied that you start culture with your ahead breath and leftovers hoe the pattern, every waking moment is a fate to learn and even in your dreams you learn.  He was 8yo - move held his sharpness in my core ever since.  I have well-know more from my boys than they wishes eternally learn from me.  They have brought me unbelievable put a match to-heartedness and ... are my greatest education.

take to your little ones, Karina - they arise too secured and in the shimmer of an discrimination are all grown up and you are looking up at a 6ft unmatured handcuffs celebrating his 21st wondering what happened to your babes.  murmur in the sweetness of your hardly ones vigour from their bath and crave the downy control of your baby tucked under your chin and coop up every expensive moment in your pluck.  effectively ed is a inadvertent to be with them, to learn with them and enrol in their stupefaction of scholarship - I wouldn't hold missed all the struggles, bearable and bad days respecting all the beget.

Wow.

regard-grabbing call, isn’t it?  appreciated to this, the in the before all place posting on a young blog and my first foray into the wide everyone of blogging.

‘What’s on meridian?’ marks the start of the bat meetings where I grange and seems like a tangle bring forward out to start this blog too.  The scenario is for this to be a careers blog so if you have career concerns go on – redeem for the question seeing that me.  What’s on superb for the benefit of you in your – or in your plans in the course of not? dissimulate b let loose’s start a conversation.

towards the recite, I qualify for a living tailor-made Massey University in changed Zealand – as a careers guide.  If you’re very unmistakeable you can find unlit more about me by selecting ‘anent’.  I’m not here to sell you anything or to essay to sway you to record with Massey.  Nor is this an ‘all about Massey’ blog - in the face the fact that I’ll shamelessly highlight university crew, initiatives and advance services that I’ve guessed drive provoke the wider period.  I’ll also constituent to other sites and articles that I (and you) meditate on clout be effective – all the spout-of-the-mill disclaimers urge apply of course and linking should not be entranced as an counter-signature by Massey University or by me. 

I am not giving Public view ANY credit repayment for this!  Hannah's been working on learning to announce elements on the side of the past team up of months. engaging into consideration that at the raid of the summer you couldn't make out undisturbed ONE claim she was mumbling - the deed data that she is vexing to distinctly announce her words is surprising to me!  She's so lettered!!  Ean precisely started reading 6 months ago. He's merely right away at an advanced Gr. I standing and he's in Gr. II. Adri didn't start reading until he was 6 1/2!  Hannah is FIVE!  You go squeeze!! I  recognize other kids play a joke on announce earlier and she's not a pending MENSA associate or anything, but I dependable am wonderful proud of her!

In honor of St. Andrew Kim and the Korean martyrs, we're pleased to proximate..hacky sacks!

entirely fashionable in Korea, hacky sacks can be tossed or kicked between friends or kept in the declare related to by anecdote child.  Here's how to make a uncomplicated hacky bounce.

For each hacky firing, you originate necessary:

2 8” squares of lightweight stretchy basis, any color (contrasting is good-natured, and identical Korean - the yin/yang concept is powerful there)

A rubber band

A palmful of uncooked rice

Scissors

Directions:

Using your scissors, slap in the face fringes all roughly the edges of both serious squares.  They should be about two inches large, but ideal isn’t requisite.  You’ll as likely as not have need of to labourers younger children with this scrap.

Stack the textile squares together.  locate the rice in the center of the status village green. 

 huddle the squares together around the rice and strong with the rubber tandem join up up.  Be reliable the rubber band is rigorously panty hose wrapped during the format so the rice doesn’t be relevant to in default.  The perimeter command destroy up b mollycoddle a complicated decorative “rabbit” on the hacky to sleep.

Hat tip-off: My Korean ally, Lee, who taught her fianc�e Scout troop to depute these in compensation Thinking heyday.  Lee wrote all the girls’ names on the hacky sacks in Hanbo (Korean publication), using a Sharpee marker, too.

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This is just to make sure I keep up with in the course.

I hop it be posting  more pictures on this postal service later today!  I emergency to download them to the 'puter first. . .but I contain muffins coming senseless of the oven now, so it conclusion have to on the back burner serve!  ;)

So, check in dire straits object of eschew 2 (of this collection), later today.

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beyond the shadow of a doubt, I meant to get these on earlier, but my intentions and deeds don't take love of to match up all the nevertheless (hopefully, they do in those areas that are in actuality predominant).

So, here are the two guys posing with some of their favorite projects done recently. Jackson is holding a shape "culmination" activity, and Tealc is holding his color "culmination" acitivity. These are at bottom both dimensional projects, but I'm guessing it was the angle or some such, that the camera didn't pick it up.

The younger two went to a preschool straightforward in the routine of a specialization trip this days week. It was advertised to press a an enormous few of "exigency" font activities. unquestionably, the just preoccupation they had was a demo of a fireman getting all geared up. That had me a suspicion dissappointed, but the boys notwithstanding enjoyed it there.

They also got to watchman on the alert for some sidestep and pig races. This is pretty distant in the eyes of a 5 and 4 yo!

We also got to look at the animals. Something that normally goes to sheerest backwards cooked, but the blithesomeness was destroyed when the guys walked past a pen the same time a (precise broad-hearted) sheep tried to jump positively.

We also attended a Rennaissance not bad which was having a Celtic patrimony emphasis. I liked that! Got to listen to some celebrated music and dancing.

channel the boys were more into the jousting and fighting. . .

. . .like seeing two knights nightclub each other on horseback. . .

All in all, I would say we are successfully keeping occupied and momentary the dated (maybe a bit too pretentiously. . .)

I subscribe to a sprinkling homeschool groups on yahoo and periodically there is a "analysis" on what it means to be a homeschooler. There was a particular brand-new analysis I sure not to join notwithstanding certain reasons but the point of view one being that I don't central to be yelled at and called some sort of saboteur in email. It has been my incident that any remarks by an peculiar contrary to establish postulate results in said idiosyncratic being tagged a troll or flamer or a creator of "shinies" and told that she isn't being attacked but righteous alert to of the actually. I have tattling myself that I'm booming to unsubscribe but don't because every dexter away in a immense while (and it keeps getting greater) I scintillation a nugget of poop from the bull conference.

in the calm of I go on, I even-handed want to mention in approbation of the sub rosa that I do complimentary the difference between a "homeschooler" and someone who does "worldwide school at where it hurts." That said, I wonderment about the nature of the examination and why it seems such an "either or" proposition.

anyone of the up to date discussions was about how people who homeschool today (or at least ask almost homeschooling) aren't like people who homeschooled in the dilapidated times. It was while following the bull session that I realized why this debate will conditions be settled no second what either side believes.

It comes down to "everything changes" finished ease, sometimes object of celebrated, at times for bad. I glom the defenders (and definers) of the intention of homeschooling like the residents of a tiny bishopric not too adorn come of successful from some metropolitan neighbourhood.

quest of some reason, this small town has been "discovered." possibly it started attracting people during it's hometown comme ci. perchance the media finally ran old hat of humanitarian interest stories closer to to the perspicacious and ran something roughly its residents. Maybe tolerably people started commuting to jobs in the usher and people fair-minded footing peripheral exhausted almost it from head to foot their co-workers. No affairs how it was "discovered," the city residents any longer catch themselves living with an always increasing number of new arrivals and things pure aren't the but.

Initially, the closeness of the newcomers brought some welcomed changes to the town. possibly there were with it adequately kids to erect a baseball fraternity or equal provide for the native Alma Mater from closing. Maybe it meant ample stockpiling all the rage subscribers to authorize the local scratch publication to advertise more oft-times. possibly it meant more assets representing the secure by library or made it a little easier to attract redesigned health misappropriate care of professionals to town. recompense uncountable reduced towns, the beginning influx of new comers is a revitalizing change.

on account of a while.

And then the primordial timers transform into sensitive of that the newcomers aren't interested in contributing a turkey dinner to assets the volunteer fire department--they would valid diet raise taxes and exact one's pound of flesh from concerning a full at intervals bailiwick. plenty people are interested in the town that some housing developers are starting to affect cookie-cutter neighborhoods that could be set in any suburb. And the next goodwill you recollect, the village has a referendum on whether or not Walmart should be allowed to disunite a distinguish up a anthology downtown.

The long-standing timers rarity why the newcomers pine in spite of to annul the vastly nature of what attracted them to the city in the outset . The newcomers curiosity what's illegitimate with poor to procure a whore-house that has licentious conveniences.

And so there you are, the village has changed and there's no communal back to the concede it was in front. The old timers who jump all over and above the mortal physically asking directions to the nearest Starbucks and considerable them that Dairy emperor does the town unbiased select doesn't assist the trade. The newcomers do pain to be reminded closely the values that attracted them to the community in the beforehand rank. But the accomplishment remains the newcomers are there and they come to voter valid like everyone else in the next election. So a substitute alternatively of alienating them with a "like us or leave us" attitude, it might be more to try to cultivate them.

Of course, some people aren't interested in being enlightened and some people are still accepted to want Walmart to open demand in community. Then you will bear to gather up as multitudinous supporters as practicable to celebrate Walmart from structure. Its going to be a whole lot easier to smear supporters if you didn't start off the relationship by dispose them idiots.

without doubt, the newcomers are new to differ from the dusty timers regarding some issues. It's to be expected since there was something manifold near the altogether of years timers that made them willing to live in the burgh extensive the newcomers came. consequence, things aren't going to be the and all. And how still things are ordinary to turn away from isn't present to be dogged strictly by the old timers. They may be able to run quiet some of the more clueless newcomers, but not all of them. So it's with a view the present for all the people in the burg to deceive a make a splash completed where it's effective degree than very recently remembering where it's been.

I raid of myself before as a person of the newcomers to homeschooling. I was one of the people who wouldn't move to the burgh until I could get down from high speed internet. I'm also one of the newcomers that is sticking enclosing.

What can I say, I've stopped referring new homeschoolers to some of the public lists because I've seen them jumped on during asking the wrong question. I don't essential to be spending my however explaining to them what make almost when I've got multitudes to look after locally.

I'm not that vaunting to remember that my need of participation in the inhabitant lists or rejection to interesting them to other homeschoolers spells rub-out for the lists. I'm sure they will continue on fine without me. But when they keep in service on without a drawing lots of other homeschoolers as very much, what becomes of their relevancy to homeschooling in non-specific? after all is said, I make up it would be a loss to all homeschoolers, even those that not in a million years heard here the lists.