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2014 High School and Beyond Conference
"Forward Confidently"
Was held November 15, 2014
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If you would like to purchase your own copy of the talks, please let our office know. For $5, we will send you the full collection of talks on your choice of USB key or on CD.
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Are you Here to Give or Get?
Kenneth Noster
Matching career to calling is far more rewarding than making decisions based upon income, prestige, or other incentives pushed by our society. Considering your experiences, abilities, and interests, what is being asked of you? What is God designing you for?
Home School Grad Panel
Evan & Natalie Muller, Katheryn Ahlf, Blair Bishop, Nathaniel King
A panel of home schooled graduates discuss a variety of methods by which they effectively, and not so effectively, applied their high school years. Ask them questions that pertain to your own life and aspirations. The variety of approaches and outcomes demonstrate that every home school path is somewhat unique.
A Look Back at High School Through College
Brianne Adrian, B.Ed
Looking back at decisions made during home schooling and since, Brianne is able to offer solid advice to home school youth. Find out how home schooling has provided the keys to her success in study, work, and life.
Its Time to Get Serious
Paul & Mark
A father and youth argue over the benefits of self-discipline and daily purpose, compared to living in the moment and enjoying life. How do you make the most of life and the daily gifts you are being given?
A Variety of Approaches to High School at Home
Patty Marler, Kelvin & Dorothea Presakerchuk, Jeff & Lisa Bekolay
Continually reminding themselves that curriculum is much more than the resources being used, parents reflect on how they needed to adjust their approach and learning materials in order to achieve their goals and those of their children.
Be Confident, Thou Shall Prosper
Tim Hoven
A dynamic speaker, a home schooling father and owner and operator of Hoven Farms, a certified organic, multi-generational farm, Tim demonstrates how it is not only socially responsible to plan for success in our lives, but how the Bible strongly affirms the value of this striving. Tim’s presentation will stimulate discussion on the merits of good business sense, the joy of serving others, and the importance of friendship in our lives.
May 2024
Theme: Laughter
Deadline: Mar 15
July 2024
Theme: Delight Directed
Deadline: May 17
September 2024
Theme: Intentionality
Deadline: July 19
November 2024
Theme: Adapt
Deadline: Sept 20
January 2025
Theme: Persevere
Deadline: Nov 8
March 2025
Theme: Choice
Deadline: Jan 17
May 2025
Theme: Plan
Deadline: Mar 21
July 2025
Theme: Response
Deadline: May 16
Send articles, letters to the editor, submissions, feedback and suggestions for future themes to magazine@wisdomhomeschooling.com
The WISDOM Family Magazine is a compilation of articles from educating professionals, parenting experts, special needs consultants, home schooling parents, students, and more. We welcome your submissions.
To send us an article, letter to the Editor, project idea, or anything else, email it to magazine@wisdomhomeschooling.com . You can also mail your articles or photos to us at WISDOM Family Magazine, Box 78, Derwent, AB T0B 1C0.
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The WISDOM Family Magazine is a bi-monthly publication, free to WISDOM home schoolers and available for a small subscription fee to non-WISDOM families.
This great resource is full of information, inspiration and ideas. You will find encouraging and uplifting articles, curriculum reviews, success stories, and "how-to's" from homeschooling professionals and veterans.
Password managers are good.
Without a password manager, you either end up using the same or similar passwords everywhere—making it easy to compromise multiple accounts once someone figures out a password—or storing passwords in an insecure manner.
Most web browsers now offer to remember passwords. This is a good start, but it brings about two challenges:
- What if you want your passwords somewhere else? Some systems will syncronise login info, but that requires you to use the same browser on all your devices.
- Often, there's nothing preventing someone from logging in with your saved password if they borrow your device, since the browser doesn't suggest using a master password to unlock the saved passwords. This also means nefarious software could get access to your saved passwords.
This is where a third-party password manager can save the day. They use plugins so that your passwords are accessible in every browser and on every device you might use.
I’ve used several over the years with a partial goal of knowing what's out there, and my personal favourite is Bitwarden.
- Free — with additional paid features, but I don’t use them and I doubt you’d need them either.
- Verifiably secure and trustworthy — their system both will not and cannot allow anyone/thing to see the saved passwords without unlocking with a master password, and they get things audited by an independent third party.
- Works on just about any platform you might be using.
- Passwords are synchronised with a central server (in encrypted form), so when you add/update a password on one device, it’s accessible everywhere else as well.
So if you were to give one a try, I’d start with that one!