Florida Home School Directory

Do you have a service or business to offer the Florida homeschool community?  If so, you can add it for free to the Florida Home School Directory. 

The founders, Lee and Kristy Mikell, who are friends of mine, are also the proud parents of three home school children. The Florida Home School Directory was created out of a need to quickly find a variety of services and products for their home schooling journey.  From tutors, to groups, to educational events, the Mikell family really needed a central place to find all of these things.

Have you ever needed to find a particular group or service in your homeschooling journey, but weren't sure where to look?   

Using it is simple!

When each Provider Member joins the directory {which is free}, they chose categories for their information to be listed.  As you find a need in your homeschool, you choose all of your criteria and the Provider Members that have enrolled in that particular category will show up.  You can then contact them directly and seek their services.

Find Out More :  You can find out more about listing or seeking services at the Florida Home School Directory.

Disclosure:  I have received no compensation from writing this post and all opinions and experiences within this review are my own.
 

 

FREE World History Resources

I wanted to share with you a post by Maureen over at Homeschool Mo.  She posted some wonderful and FREE online World History Resources on Wednesday.  Several of the links include FREE online games.  I bookmarked almost all of them to go back later and take a better look. 

I listed only a few below, so make sure to visit her site for the rest.  I hope you find some of these links helpful!  Thank you to Maureen for letting me post about them!

Adventures in Ancient Greece
BBC History for Kids
Ghosts in the Castle
Hoernersburg Lego Castle and Medieval Lego Town & Cathedral Tour

 

Does Your Family Need To Go On A Media Diet?

The following information was recently passed to me so I'm passing it along to my readers!

New Free Media Diet Calculator Planned to Launch Dec. 26

Aims to Bring Awareness of Family Media Intake Versus Real Life Interaction

Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 15, 2010… After a season filled with record-setting cell phone and gaming gifts to teens and tweens, iShine is announcing the upcoming Dec. 26 release of the Family Media Diet Calculator.  The calculator is a new tool providing customized awareness to families in regards to how much time they spend connected to media in comparison to the amount of hours they spend plugged in with real life interaction and content consumption.

By visiting http://www.familymediadiet.com, parents nationwide will be able to plug in amounts of time their families spend texting, browsing online, consuming television and more. They will then be able to print a free custom analysis of where their families are spending their time in comparison to their involvement in recreational and faith-based activities along with family time and reading.  The campaign is not an anti-technology movement.  It is about use awareness and being intentional about the content.

It is estimated that the 20 million tweens in this country spend 25 hours a week watching television and playing video games and only one hour in church.  George Barna (The Barna Group), a pioneer in research on Christian culture, recently noted that kids spend more time absorbing media than anything else in their lives, except sleeping. A recent article in The New York Times titled “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction” also discussed the effects of technology compared to focusing and learning.

“We as parents must be deliberate of what media our kids consume, understanding that it is forming the way our kids look at everything – self image, friends, parents, leaders, themselves,” remarks iShine Founder and Chief Creative Officer Robert Beeson. “If we as parents aren’t actively forming the person our kid’s are becoming – make no mistake – someone else is.”

iShine, known for bringing family-friendly media options through tours, music, television and radio mediums, is sponsoring the free Media Diet Calculator. The organization will also be releasing a new interactive Bible for tweens with Tyndale House Publishers in Feb. of 2011.