Yearly Archives: 2011

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Welcome to our Summer Splash! Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the BiblePrinciples Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 21, 2011, sorry, you missed it.

 

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar ToGo to one blessed attender of the BiblePrinciples Facebook Party. Keep reading for instructions for entering.

 

Looking for Freedom & Simplicity™ in Biblical Home Education?

 

Real Books and Family-Friendly Natural Methods
+ Biblical Foundations and Reasoning for Excellence
= L.E.D.

 

Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ is a way of looking at Life and Learning, based on seeking Biblical Wisdom through Universal Principles with Unique Applications™.

 

This multi-session Seminar presents the foundations and the vision of Biblical learning for excellence in the lifestyle of the Christian home. In our Seminars you will learn not only the Philosophy, Principles, and Practical Application of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™, but you’ll also experience Times of Refreshing, Reflection, and Renewing the Mind. Hands-on Discipleship yoU!™ exercises will help you integrate L.E.D.™ into your own life.

 

 

The winner of this drawing will receive the Freedom & Simplicity™ of L.E.D. Seminar by download. You’ll get the audios, handouts and slideshow files of the complete Seminar. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them!

1) Post a comment below as to why you think you’d enjoy this Seminar.

2) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this Subscribe link will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House.

3) “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, and invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” it too! – and comment below to tell us you did.

4) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com ”  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)

Winner of the Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship Seminar ToGo will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

 

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another FREE GIFT.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us.

 

 

Party Prize 3

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Welcome to our Summer Splash! Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the BiblePrinciples Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 21, 2011, sorry, you missed it.

 

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving  Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory to one blessed attender of the BiblePrinciples Facebook Party. Keep reading for instructions for entering.

 

 

Looking for Freedom & Simplicity™ in Biblical Home Education?

The Bible is the heart and LifeBlood of all we learn and HisStory is the Backbone. Everything has a history and it is all His Story.

The Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory – L.E.D. Learning Guide will walk you step by step through the learning and teaching process in HisStory, beginning with Biblical foundations, principles, and rudiments, through the processes for studying and planning, to presenting and documenting the lessons. Provides an overview of what to study – time period divisions and content/ aspects within them.

How to plan, learn, and document a LED study of History.

 

 

The winner of this drawing will receive Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory (ebook). You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them!

1) Post a comment below as to why you think you’d enjoy this book.

2) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this Subscribe link will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

3) “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, and invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” it too! – and comment below to tell us you did.

4) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com ”  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)

 

Winner of  Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

 

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe – and get another FREE GIFT from Me and My House.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us.

 

 

Party Prize 2

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Welcome to our Summer Splash! Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the BiblePrinciples Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 21, 2011, sorry, you missed it.

 

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving  Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom to one blessed attender of the BiblePrinciples Facebook Party. Keep reading for instructions for entering.

 

 

Looking for Freedom & Simplicity™ in Biblical Home Education?

The Freedom & Simplicity on R Road to Biblical Wisdom – L.E.D. Learning Guide answers your ‘how to’ questions about  Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™.

 

Come along with us on R Road, and learn the R’s you can apply, simply, to learn anything you desire, from a Biblical perspective. Each R along the Road is a simple method that leads to excellence in learning, so we can grow in Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge and walk in liberty. Nearly 100 pages of detailed information and application tips.

 

 

The winner of this drawing will receive Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom (ebook). You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them!

1) Post a comment below as to why you think you’d enjoy this book.

2) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

3) “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, and invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” it too! – and comment below to tell us you did.

4) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com ”  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)

 

Winner of  Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

 

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us.

 

 

Party Prize 1

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Welcome to our Summer Splash! Facebook Party Giveaway! If you aren’t at the party on the BiblePrinciples Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to get your Party Favor. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 21, 2011, sorry, you missed it.

 

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving the PIPEline of HisStory™ to all attenders of the BiblePrinciples Facebook Party as a Party Favor, just for you! Keep reading for the download link.

 

History is God’s Story, and it is best taught within a framework – seeing the Big Picture. Ruth Beechick says that this framework should be simple enough for a child to memorize – no more than about 12 items. The Principle Appraoch® utilizes this same concept in their Chain of Christianity.

 

The PIPEline of HisStory™ is a set of pictorial representations of major links on the PIPEline of HisStory™ to give your children this framework. Use for a wall or notebook Timeline framework. On a wall you can fill in the details of HisStory, under each link in this framework, with small timeline figures.

 

Use these with our Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory guide or any history program to give an outline of God’s Story throughout time. Easy to use! FREE BONUS links included!


 

This Party Favor download will expire at midnight (Central time) on Tues. July 21, 2011.

 

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe. Using this link will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us.

 

 

It’s Party Time – Tonight!

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My BiblePrinciples home ed friends and I are having a Facebook Party tonight! (Tuesday, July 21st.) Join us for a Summer Splash Kick-Off!

Chat with other Biblical home educators. Get some great free giveaways and enter to win door prizes from several different BiblePrinciples authors. We’ll also highlight some super articles on home educating by Bible Principles. Starting at 7 Central, (that’s 8 Eastern, 6 Mountain, and 5 Pacific time,) we’ll have an hour of FUN and fellowship. (You’ll have to bring your own food.) 🙂
Click on over to the BiblePrinciples Facebook Page and “Like” it to join the fun. (If you aren’t on Facebook yet, you will need to create your own account there first. So don’t delay.) Go “Like” the page now, then come back to the BiblePrinciples Facebook Page at 7 for the Party!!
Here’s the direct link:
And if you aren’t following our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship Page on Facebook yet, be sure to “Like” it too! We’ll be doing our own Facebook Party next month. Watch for details in our July Newsletter.

 

Human Body DVD Study

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“Finally you can explore human anatomy & physiology in a Creator-honoring way!”

 

I just ordered the new human body study by Answers in Genesis, Body of Evidence. I’m especially excited about this because it is in DVD format. We also own Biology 101, another DVD science study from a Biblical perspective, and really like it, but I’ve wanted to add something deeper on the Human Body, in DVD format. This looks like it’s that.

 

Here’s what our friends have to say about Body of Evidence:

Do you understand how your body works and why God designed it that way? How do you respond when modern “science” says there is no connection between mankind and our Creator?

To answer these questions and more, our friends at Answers in Genesis just released a new 8-DVD study course that teaches human anatomy and physiology from a Christian worldview. It’s called called Body of Evidence, and it is designed to equip Christians with a biblical understanding of our bodies and to help students defend their faith and combat the lies of evolution.

 


Body of Evidence is insightful, biblical, and hosted by former medical university professor Dr. David Menton. Dr. Menton is an excellent teacher loved worldwide for his humorous and insightful talks that leave audiences in hushed awe at the Creator’s wisdom. In this series, Dr. Menton employs anatomical props, models, and microscopic images to teach students about God’s amazing designs as he takes students on a fascinating teaching-tour through the major systems of the body.

Topics covered in Body of Evidence include:

  • Cells & Tissue
  • Skeletal System
  • Integumentary System (Skin)
  • Cardiovascular System (Heart)
  • Respiratory System (Lungs)
  • Digestive System
  • Urinary System
  • Hearing Ear & The Seeing Eye

Geared for teens and adults, Body of Evidence is a 16-part series on 8 DVDs and comes with a study guide containing more than 600 questions. As a curriculum, this course is designed for a junior high/high school audience. This course is also excellent for anyone studying the human body, and is a tremendous outreach tool for declaring a biblical view of the handiwork of God.

 

Also available through our CBD affiliate links.

 

301370: Body of Evidence 8-DVD Set Body of Evidence 8-DVD SetBy Dr. David Menton / Answers In Genesis

Explore the amazing evidence for design in human anatomy and physiology! This 16-part, 8 DVD series is taught by Dr. David Menton; employing anatomical props, models, and microscopic images, his humorous and insightful talks will take students through the major systems of the body. A self-test book will help viewers to learn even more! DVDs cover: cells & tissues, the skeletal system, the integumentary system, the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, the urinary system, the hearing ear and seeing eye. Teens & Adults. Eight DVDs with two 40-45 minute sessions each and 1 64-page self-test booklet.

 

 

 

 

iMindMap 5 is here TODAY

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iMindMap 5 was released today. Below are just a few quotes from the CEO of  iMindMap on this innovative rebuild of this awesome brainstorming, organizing, notetaking, outlining, planning, … software, that I love and use all the time. One aspect you’re sure to love is that iMindMap 5 Basic is FREE.

Why should you care? Learning Maps™ are an integral part of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™, and using a mind mapping app to make them makes it convenient, fun, and fast – not to mention neater.

Click here for more details about iMindMap 5 – and to take it for a test drive.

More on why you’ll love having a mind mapping app for your home education (and what we use them for) here.

Buzan's iMindMap

The ThinkBuzan team has worked extremely hard to rebuild iMindMap completely from the ground up, and I would like to thank them all for their commitment and dedication – I feel very lucky to work with such a great team. Also, a big thank you goes to all of our Beta Testers, Trainers and Users, who provided invaluable feedback in developing iMindMap 5.

iMindMap 5 has lots of new features and a brand new interface, so there is plenty to explore. My favourite features include 3D View, which I love presenting with, and MultiMaps, as I find that I often have related Mind Maps which deserve their own space, but belong on the same page. If you have trialled iMindMap V4 in the past, you can start afresh and take iMindMap 5 for a test drive – come back and tell us your first reactions! Plus our cloud application, iMindMap Online, is also released today. I look forward to hearing your feedback!
And remember, it doesn’t end here. iMindMap 5 will offer our most aggressive update plan yet, and we expect to make improvements and enhancements regularly, so you will literally see the software evolve in front of your eyes.

As part of the iMindMap 5 launch, we have also released a brand new edition, iMindMap Basic, which is totally free! This is our way of getting everyone around the world to think and work differently for better results. It something we have wanted to do for a long time and are delighted that it is finally possible.

– Chris Griffiths
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Available in 4 editions: Basic – Elements – Pro – Ultimate

 

King Alfred’s English

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What does King Alfred have to do with the English we speak today? Plenty and we should all be thankful for this King of 11 centuries ago.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed reading King Alfred’s English: A History of the Language We Speak and Why We Should Be Glad We Do. It was a fun, quick and easy-to-read book, but one that packed a punch. I think teens will wish all their required subject reading was this enjoyable. Laurie White presents this subject, not in a dry, boring way, but as a living story that easily explains how we got from point A to point B. She does a great job of bringing understanding to basic historical events, just in case your not familiar with them. In other words, you don’t have to have your history down pat ahead of time to understand the flow.

 

This book about the English Language really gives a great concise history of England itself. The invasions, the literature, and all that shaped the conglomeration we speak today. It also includes a good overview history of the English Bible, and the role it played in developing the language we all, Christian or not, speak. Laurie does a good job of showing the leading causes that led to the consequences that developed our language.

 

This book will be added to our children’s required reading list, and I don’t think they will mind at all. I suggest you add it to your high schooler’s English course – and that you read it too. Not only will you learn some great useful information about the history of our language, those things will help you teach English also. You’ll know why, things are the way they are. And you’ll enjoy your reading time along the way. So will your students.

 

The author’s website also includes free supplemental material for students working through this book. (I haven’t had a chance to check that out yet.)

 

Order King Alfred’s English today to give your youth a great overview of the History of the English Language.

 

187717: King Alfred"s English: A History of the Language We Speak and Why We Should Be Glad We Do King Alfred’s English: A History of the Language We Speak and Why We Should Be Glad We DoBy Laurie J. White / The Shorter Word Press

One needs only to glance at Chaucer, or even further back at Beowulf, to see that English has not always what we call English. Divided into the major epochs of the language–Pre-English Britain, Old English (which was formed from an invasion of Latin & Old Norse), The Transition from Middle to Modern English, and finally Modern English–this casual re-telling of history will engross you. Mingling history, religion, famous people, and linguistics, the story of English is integrated into the story of Western History. 150 pages, softcover. Supplemental material is available online (website in book) for chapter worksheets, unit tests, links, and suggested movies.

 

The author graciously gave me a review copy of this book to read. Thank you Laurie. I loved it.

 

Ebooks vs. Print books

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In honor of Ebooks 40th Birthday, here’s another post on ebooks. If you want a chance to win the Birthday Present from this celebration, click on over to yesterday’s post and comment, answering the question I ask there.

Are print books relics of the past, doomed to disappear? Will ebooks completely take over? As a publisher that has gone entirely to producing ebooks AND as an avid reader and collector, with a REALLY good sized home library of real print books, (and ebooks,) AND as an owner of an eReader (and several ebook apps) {understatement} – here’s my entirely unscientific, but not unbiased, opinion.

I believe, more than anything else, it depends on the type of book it is – at least at this point. I think we will see 2 different markets emerge, and hopefully a third in the middle. There will continue to be the nostalgics (like me) who long to hang on to the printed word, and continue to buy print books. These love the experience and convenience of picking up a single book and flipping through it at leisure, or settling in and handling and reading from paper – easier on the eyes, easier to go through. I think this is especially true of “story” type books, biographies, histories, novels, etc. – in particular, longer reading books. Hopefully, as long as these people keep buying print books, publishers will keep printing them. I believe there will remain some people who are dead set against digital books, and will never read anything but a print book. So, I don’t believe paper books are going to go away, as long as this market is there.

Another market we will see, as an extreme, pressing earnestly forward into the completely digital world, is those who don’t treasure books as (printed) books to be collected and passed down, but rather thrive on the digital technology and just use books for the present needed information. They see no purpose for continuing to print books, when everything can be read on a device. These will greatly increase the digital market, but I’m not sure they will do much to diminish the print market, as they probably weren’t huge buyers of print books to begin with. I believe the type of reading these 2 markets do, will determine which books survive in print, and which will be solely available digitally.

I believe reference type books, activity and work- books (if they can be interacted with onscreen), quick-read, and probably even ‘how-to’ books, as well as “short and shallow” books, will eventually go to almost entirely digital form. As our society continues to become more mobile – running to and fro – the ebooks are definitely going to gain. In fact, there is no doubt that ebooks are the wave of the future – not just a passing fad, but also hopefully not an underminer of the past. Hopefully, those of us on the middle ground, will keep good books available in both formats.

As for the homeschool market, although I hope all home educators will nurture in their children a love for printed books and at least keep a few dearly cherished ones, I know for homeschoolers who travel extensively or have large families and small homes, – and even small budgets (that covers most) – ebooks can be a lifesaver. I also hope that, especially with the growing availability and popularity of eReaders, that those who home educate digitally will realize that small, compact, lightweight, and digital does not have to be (and shouldn’t be) reduced to soundbite information seeking, bells-and-whistles inter-activities, and flashcard/workbook binary questions/answers. I am pleased to see more and more publishers making great books available in electronic form. I dream of a world where substantial, real books of mind-developing quality walk hand in hand with convenient digital delivery, without overthrowing the paper and ink business.

In the homeschool market, I also hope that the popularity of ebooks doesn’t do away with live homeschool conventions. Much as I love online conventions, they don’t take the place of physically meeting people and physically seeing and thumbing through books. So while I’m dreaming, I see the vendor’s booths at live homeschool conventions with computers or iPads for taking customers’ orders for ebooks, and the customers getting instant delivery to their devices.

As you can see, I’m on both sides of this fence. I love books of all kinds! I’ll take a “real” book in my hand, whether it’s hardbound, spiral bound, paperback, or e-ink – even audio. At this point I am happy for both print and digital books. I hope it stays that way.

And — Maybe I’ll go back to selling at conventions again. 🙂