Greetings from Budapest

I’m currently spending some time with Share Educational Services, based in Budapest, Hungary.  I’m learning so much about the challenges of educating kids abroad.  It’s fascinating to find out how missionaries and expatriates network with each other and come up with solutions on the fly for meeting their kids needs.  Homeschooling is growing internationally, but so are attempts to squelch this option in Europe.  There is an opportunity here ( and a great need) for homeschoolers in the States to consider helping organizations like Share provide services and resources to families living in very remote regions of the world.  If you’d like to look into what Share is doing, then check out their website: shareeducation.org

I will keep you post on what I’m doing.  Sunday I head to Greece for a conference there.  Tomorrow, I get a walking tour of Budapest.  Love having built in tour guides where ever I travel.

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How to download videos to your computer

YouTube and other Internet sites have tons of content you might want to use in your homeschooling, but, frequently the surrounding content is offensive. So, here’s what to do — download those video clips to your computer and keep them on hand for later use. Don’t want to load up your hard drive with these large files? Then, keep an external hard drive close at hand ( I carry one in my purse.

Here’s a link to a blog I follow with the instructions for downloading these files and even changing the format:
http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/04/24/how-to-download-video-not-just-from-youtube/

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The World Your Kids Are Entering

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21st Century Homeschooling

Here are the handouts from my workshops at FPEA this past weekend.

 

http://groups.google.com/group/debrabell?lnk=iggc

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Welcome

This past weekend I had the opportunity to speak at the FPEA conference in Orlando, FL.  Here’s the YouTube clip I showed during my session on 21st Century Homeschooling.

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