Blog-At-Your-Own Pace

Below you will find great info about the Blogging 101 course that I have as a give-away. Five lucky readers will be able to win a free 8-week blogging course.  Just leave a comment stating your top three reasons for wanting to take the blog course or wanting to make your blog better… The give-away will end May 15th at mid-night.  For an extra entry,  follow @blogwritingcourse on Twitter.  Leave a comment letting me know you are following.

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Whether you are an absolute newbie blogger, or have had a blog for a while but want to improve it and grow your audience, BlogWritingCourse.com is your source for blogging how-to’s!  Head to BWC.com for TONS of free blogging info, and even a completely free automated Intro to Blogging course.  Then, if you decide blogging is for you, BlogWritingCourse.com offers  Blogging 101 - – an eight-week,  self-propelled, comprehensive course that will guide you through all the basics of creating and establishing your new blog. The units covered in the Blogging 101 curriculum include:

1. Introduction to Blogging (all the basics for the beginning blogger)
2. Laying Your Cards On The Table (blog titles, platforms, and start-up instructions)
3. It’s All About Me (blogging safety, “About Me” pages, and blog design)
4. Build That Content and Make It Snazzy (writing quality posts, commenting, and adding media)
5. It’s The Little Things That Count (sidebars, widgets, categories, and static pages)
6. Mi Blog es Su Blog – – Building Community (growing a readership, blog promotion, and blogrolls)
7. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (more blog promotion strategies and making money with your blog)
8. Looking Back and Looking Forward (tips and strategies for continuing to grow your blog after the course)

When you have completed the Blogging 101 course, you will have not only learned the basics of blogging, but you will have your VERY OWN BLOG, several quality posts, and very possibly a growing following of readers!  Whether you are a mom wanting to chronicle your family’s  exploits, an entrepreneur who wants a place to showcase their new business, a middle or high schooler who is looking for an interactive writing platform, or anyone who simply wants to explore themselves and the world around them more deeply, Blogging 101 is ready to help you accomplish your blogging goals.

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 I am a course alumni and LOVED the course! Leave a comment listing the top 3 reasons you want to take the course. For an extra entry, follow BWC on twitter @blogwritingcourse.

 

Blog FREEBIE Now

Below you will find great info about the Blogging 101 course that I have as a give-away. Five lucky readers will be able to win a free 8-week blogging course.  Just leave a comment telling me your top three reasons for wanting to take the blog course or wanting to make your blog better… The give-away will end May 15th.  For an extra entry,  follow @blogwritingcourse on Twitter.  Leave a comment letting me know you are following.

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Whether you are an absolute newbie blogger, or have had a blog for a while but want to improve it and grow your audience, BlogWritingCourse.com is your source for blogging how-to’s!  Head to BWC.com for TONS of free blogging info, and even a completely free automated Intro to Blogging course.  Then, if you decide blogging is for you, BlogWritingCourse.com offers  Blogging 101 - – an eight-week,  self-propelled, comprehensive course that will guide you through all the basics of creating and establishing your new blog.The units covered in the Blogging 101 curriculum include:

1. Introduction to Blogging (all the basics for the beginning blogger)
2. Laying Your Cards On The Table (blog titles, platforms, and start-up instructions)
3. It’s All About Me (blogging safety, “About Me” pages, and blog design)
4. Build That Content and Make It Snazzy (writing quality posts, commenting, and adding media)
5. It’s The Little Things That Count (sidebars, widgets, categories, and static pages)
6. Mi Blog es Su Blog – – Building Community (growing a readership, blog promotion, and blogrolls)
7. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (more blog promotion strategies and monetizing your blog)
8. Looking Back and Looking Forward (tips and strategies for continuing to grow your blog after the course)

When you have completed the Blogging 101 course, you will have not only learned the basics of blogging, but you will have your VERY OWN BLOG, several quality posts, and very possibly a growing following of readers!  Whether you are a mom wanting to chronicle your family’s  exploits, an entrepreneur who wants a place to showcase their new business, a middle or high schooler who is looking for an interactive writing platform, or anyone who simply wants to explore themselves and the world around them more deeply, Blogging 101 is ready to help you accomplish your blogging goals!

 

FREE Blogging Course

Did you just say a FREE blogging course??

Yes.  Yes, in fact I did say a FREE blogging course.  BlogWritingCourse.com is proud to offer new or potential bloggers a free introductory course into the world of blogging.  That means that if you have been entertaining the idea of starting a blog, but felt that you really didn’t know where to begin, then we have a course for you!!

Intro to Blogging is a fun and interactive automated course to help you get your feet wet in the blogosphere.  There are a series of videos, short readings, and interactive exercises which you can take over a week or so, taking perhaps a total of two hours.  During this time, you’ll discover:

- how easy it is to blog

- what the basic lingo (vocabulary) is

- some basics about online safety

- whether blogging is something for you or not

Don’t let a lack of knowledge intimidate you from starting a blog or even taking a blog writing course.  By signing up for and taking our free pre-course you know what it’s all about. You’ll understand the lingo. You’ll know how to stay safe online and you’ll know how to create and promote your own blog.

Join the growing number of bonified bloggers who have gotten their start in blogging right here – – at BlogWritingCourse.com!

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Blog Writing Course has partnered with me to offer 5 readers a free Blogging 101 course which is the next course after the free pre-course.  I am a course alumni and LOVED it! Leave a comment listing the top 3 reasons you want to take the course. For an extra entry, follow BWC on twitter @blogwritingcourse.

 

Blog Give-away

Do you have a diary? Do you have your own blog? Why or why not? A blog is much like a diary, or it can be if you choose to go that direction.

I love writing. I remember keeping a diary as a very young girl and adult. When my daughter was born, I kept a diary for her for several years. Some day she will enjoy reading it. Do you find that writing helps you express yourself, even if nobody ever reads what you write? Blogging can be great therapy. I read an article the other day about how blogging gives therapeutic aid to patients. I am not surprised.

If you own a business, even a home business, blogging is a great way to promote that business. Do your relatives live far away? Blogging is a super way to keep friends and family up on the goings on in your family. Are you an expert in some area? Other folks are always looking for help. Your blog might just be the ticket. Some people even blog together. Then there are “vlogs” (video blogs). Blogging is also a great way to get kids to write more. If they are blogging about their passion, they will enjoy what they are doing. There are lots of different ways to express yourself via a blog.

Don’t let blogging cause anxiety because you don’t know all the ins and outs. I recently took a free intro to blogging course and it was great. I was able to learn at my own pace because the course was automated. I went on to take a full eight week blog writing course that covered absolutely everything I needed to know and then some! It was invaluable. It will take some time for me to implement all I learned, but I am making headway and having the time of my life as I go.

How about you–are you ready to start a blog? I want to help you if you really want to learn about blogging. I contacted the site I took my courses from and they have agreed to partner with me and offer 5 of my readers a free 8 week blogging course–Blogging 101. Click here to look around the site. Sign up for the free pre-course to blogging, then come back here and leave a comment telling me your top 3 reasons for wanting to take the blogging course. The contest begins today, April 25, 2011 and ends May 8, 2011. For an extra entry, click to follow them on Twitter–@blogwriting-and leave another comment telling me that.

 

Free Chemistry Curriculum Giveaway!

Giveaway from Friendly Chemistry: A $100 Teacher & Student Curriculum Set!

After a quick read through the introduction of Friendly Chemistry, you’ll find that, hmm, chemistry is a little more interesting than you thought. Read a bit longer and you’ll find yourself surprisingly absorbed in elements and molecules.

The writers and publishers of Friendly Chemistry are Joey and Lisa Hajda, two very qualified teachers. They describe Friendly Chemistry like this: “Friendly Chemistry was written using simple language and a host of analogies to make learning (and teaching!) chemistry easy. We believe that the chemistry concepts presented in Friendly Chemistry are NOT watered-down. The concepts are just explained in ways that are readily understood by most learners. Coupled with these explanations is a host of teaching aids, labs and games which makes the learning concrete and multi-sensory. Students find the course fun and painless. Parents often comment, ‘I wish I had had this when I was taking chemistry. Now it all makes so much sense!’ “

Visit the Friendly Chemistry site for answers to questions about the program for homeschoolers or for answers to questions about using the program in private or public schools. The set retails for $100 ($50 for the student edition, including manipulatives + $50 for the teacher edition).

http://www.freelyeducate.com/2010/07/giveaway-from-friendly-chemistry-a-100-teacher-student-set.html#tpe-action-posted-6a00e55098fdaf8833013485c69dba970c

 

Free Art Program for High Schoolers

Giveaway from Spears Art Studio: A Full High School Art Curriculum! (and Free Lessons for All!)
Spears Art Studio, Inc. offers “fine art and private & homeschool K-12th grades Christian art curriculum supporting the grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric stages of Classical education.”

Spears Art Studio giveaway of a full high school art curriculum

This art curriculum is Christian based, with many projects working with Biblical themes. Each lesson is accompanied by a suggested set of Bible verses to read.
One of you will win a CD-rom of the

Spears Art Studio High School Art Curriculum

value $34.90, international shipping included

giveaway for high school art curriculum
Here is a description of the curriculum from the publishers:

Spears Art Studio High School Art Curriculum, A Study from a Christian Worldview© is a student manual written for HOMESCHOOL FAMILIES AND CO-OPS, PRIVATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, and INDEPENDENT STUDY.

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Seven Major Themes, 36 Lessons, 75 Art Activities, 36 Sketchbook Assignments
* Supports the Rhetoric Stage of Classical Education

* Addresses:
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o art elements – line, shape, space, color, texture, form

o principles of design – repetition/pattern, proportion, contrast/value, emphasis/ focal point, balance/symmetry/asymmetry, unity, variety, harmony, movement/force/rhythm

o perception skills – edges, spaces, relationships, light/shadow, gestalt
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processes – drawing, painting, sculpture, fiber, printmaking, graphic design

* Contains:
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o connections in each lesson – Scripture, art history, contemporary art connections

o 144 visual memory exercises

o unit tests and answer keys

o helps: tips and subs; how to evaluate artwork, etc.

o analyzed for National Visual Art Standards

o 162 pages total, 177 black and white illustrations, 52 color illustrations

* Accreditation option

There are many free lessons at the Spears Art Studio website. These are full lesson plans, ready to download and save or print:

http://www.freelyeducate.com/2010/07/giveaway-from-spears-art-studio-a-full-high-school-art-curriculum-and-free-lessons-for-all.html#comment-6a00e55098fdaf8833013485c155a5970c

 

Girls Planner – Day by Day… Me Refined

The reason behind the title . . . as each day goes by in this amazing stage in a tween/teens life your being refined into the individual that God has intended for you to be. It’s a process and it happens bit by bit, day by day. While I was pondering different titles this song just kept coming to mind.

Purify my heart
Let me be as gold and precious silver
Purify my heart
Let me be as gold, pure gold

Refiner’s fire
My heart’s one desire
Is to be holy
Set apart for You Lord
I choose to be holy
Set apart for You my Master
Ready to do Your will

Brian Doerksen / 1990 Mercy/Vineyard Publishing

What’s inside -

The planner is compiled into an 8×10 coil book, small enough to carry yet big enough to track your life and the memories along the way.

* In between each month there is a full budgeting page, complete with a spot to chart your long term savings goals!
* There is also a social page with room for goals, priorities, journaling, etc.
* Your day is set up to ‘hold it all’, from the priority for the day, homework planning and evening plans. At the end of each week you have spots designated for ‘assignment updates and deadlines’, ‘need to get done list’, and what you can’t forget for that week.
* The rest of the planner consists of room for notes, ‘did you know facts’, math help formulas, contacts etc.

here’s a glimpse inside . . . Girls Planner

The Homeschool Lounge is giving one planner away. If you are not a member of THL, you can find out more about them at:

http://www.thehomeschoollounge.com/