Input from Friends From Around the World from Way Back

Input from Friends From Around the World from Way Back
Column Title -- Christian Living's Educational Blog JoLeAn's Educational Tidbits with Uncle Joseph & Aunt Naomi Thompson.
Theme – Educational
In the late 1960’s through early 1970’s we started & published a newsletter with articles from persons from around the world. Now that I’ve retired from full time teaching I’m going through many, many boxes of materials that I’ve kept over the years & sorting through it, sending some to missions to use in their educational program, donating other materials to other causes, etc. Some, I need for the curriculum development work that I am still doing or for our camp programs. I just found some of these old news letters which I was looking for. They made me think, “How did I ever get these?? We did not have computers, internet, etc. back then. How did we get this information from people from all around the world??? I had to think a few minutes for the answer. Everything was by mail (it was a lot cheaper to send a letter in those days); starting in high school, I began writing to pen pals. Again, I had to jog my memory as to how I got these pen pals. I remembered, there used to be teen magazines with articles containing pen pal names, addresses, & other information. Also the group that encouraged me to start these new letters was The Faith, Hope, & Charity Missions, which was NaomiLeah’s family’s organization. Many in her family & her friends were missionaries and this was a group that supported them in pray, writing them letters, etc. It was between my pen pals & my writing missionaries, etc. that I was able to collect the information for our newsletters. I am still looking for the boxes with the original letters with snap shots of the pen pals & missionaries along with their last names. I just hope they did not get lost: I’ve been looking & looking for my white nursing Bible which had my family tree in that my grandmother filled in when I first went into nursing. Because of back problems, I later left nursing & went into education. When I went to Bible College I had taken educational classes also. I took nurses training & attended Bible College right after I graduated from high school.  I’m including the ethnic connections, if we have them, as at the time I asked the contributors to try and include information that they sent us that reflected on their ethnic back grounds. Enough on all of that; I just wanted to put some back ground to these articles. Nellie
Topic		Sent in by	From/Ethnic Connection
1.	Resources	Abigail	From Israel
2.	Language Arts	Blythe	From Wales
3.	Social Studies	Erica	From Norway
4.	Science	Gretchen	From Germany
5.	Math	Jolanta	From Poland
6.	Schools	Katrien	From Netherlands
7.	Professional Development	Larissa	From Russia
8.	Young Children	Madison	English from Wisconsin
9.	Arts	Melantha	Greek from Indiana
10.	Camps & Fieldtrips	Natalie	From Ecuador
Note – I’ll gradually add the above listed articles as comments, as I get them done; just scanning them is not working as the formats are too old. Nellie

Looking for Presenters for Educational Conference in Michigan

This last summer, our family consisting of parents, six sisters & two brothers’ families, plus cousins and other extended family met for a family reunion in Upper Michigan at Granddad & Grandmom McGahan’s old homestead. It was nice being there all together after so many years. I remember spending part of my childhood there on the old farm. My husband & I later drove down over the bridge into Southern Michigan. We thought that it would be an excellent location for an educational conference. My sisters and I own small educational consultant businesses in our own area; awhile back we decided to join them together, but still keep them individual for the most part. By joining we all share education materials etc. and hoped in the future to start putting on educational conferences across the county (USA) as we are widely stretched from shore to shore & beyond. Some of our cousins also had their own education consultant businesses and joined us. We’ve invited a few others to join us and are now looking toward developing these educational conferences. We are looking at having one in Western Michigan in the summer of 2012 or 2013; giving us plenty of time to plan. What do we need to do in school to guarantee our children success in life? This is our theme. We hope to hold small conferences in each of our own areas on this topic also. First we have to see if we can find presenters.

While in Michigan, we met a young gal who was all hung-go on education and after talking to her, we decided that area would be a good location for one of these workshops. She was talking of taking signatures for recall because of this person’s lack of concern for education in Michigan. We asked her for a few names of people who might make good presenters for our conference.

Right now if anyone is interested in being a presenter, please let me know through my face book page; I do not get on there real often but opened it mainly for my educational professional contacts for our private educating consultant business. I am very busy with my jobs (I also still work for a school district as their educational consultant / special education director and am a college professor) and help care for a large family. All of us six sisters still work our regular jobs and are hoping to retire in the near future and start these conferences across the country. We use our extended names for our private educational consulting business only to keep it separate from our employment; what we write / say under our private business are not to be related to our employment. Although we use the same educational materials of well known educators in both; in our employment we have to stick strictly to their guides and in our private business we can present other materials, etc. To keep the separate and so we may have more freedom, we decided to use our extended names.

Thank you, JoAnneLeighette Gleason McGahan

Nellie's Educational Tid-Bits

Nellie’s Educational Tid-Bits

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Here to save teachers time – I have already done the research--

Follow ndezinski on Twitter for listing of educational web sites, educational magazines,, fieldtrip locations, & other neat educational information & materials.   www.twitter.com/ndezinski I will add new sites regularly.

Just look through my list of tweets, find the ones that interest you, & chick on to check them out!

I have found so much good educational material & information!  Some teachers, leaders, & parents can copy off, while a large amont students will need to use the computure Take advantage of them. I used a lot of it when I was teaching & now am using it to write up camp curriculum along with sharing it on our educational blog which is linked on www.christianlivingclmasafamia.blogspot.com

Thank you, Nellie Dezinski

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