In the September issue of the School Messenger, you learned five important reasons why your Christian school needs a website. Now, you're excited to begin, but you don't know where to start. In fact, the terms "hosting server" and "domain name" don't even exist in your vocabulary. Thankfully, starting a school website doesn't have to be intimidating or expensive! Using today's technology and online tools, follow these seven simple steps to successfully launch your website at a minimal cost....

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Does your Christian school use eCash? If so, Alpha Omega Publications® has good news for you. For a limited time, if your Christian school orders over $1,000 in eCash, you'll get an extra 5% eCash for free. Whether you order units for the web-based Switched-On Online® or the award-winning Switched-On Schoolhouse® curriculum, you'll get up to $100 back in eCash!...

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Keeping parents informed of their student's progress in school is very important. In their fast-moving day-to-day activities, parents may not take the time to open Switched-On Schoolhouse® reports to reveal their student's grades and production. Thus, some parents may need a little extra help. One way to help them is to send reports on their child's progression through email. Your students' parents will appreciate the diligence you exhibit, as you keep the line of communication open....

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"All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them" (Matthew 13:34).

The man at the piano played a rousing introduction, and then the notes drifted into a melody that spun a tale of its own. A strong tenor voice broke into music with the words "tell me a story," and the captivated audience at the teachers' convention listened as Ken Medema, pianist, singer, and storyteller, began his keynote address in an extraordinary way....

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Several years ago, I met with a pastor interested in starting a Christian school. The longer we conversed, the more passionate he became about the need to reach children in his community. He explained that the source of his new found passion was discovered in reading a book written by George Barna titled Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions....

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Located in the Puget Sound region of Washington, Cedar Park Christian Schools have a mission to be an institution where "changed lives are changing lives." To best accomplish that goal, Cedar Park made a change from a traditional curriculum. After many graduates of their schools informed them of the emphasis on technology and online learning in college, they decided to make a change to the Switched-On® curriculum from Alpha Omega Publications®....

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The 3rd annual Switched-On® User Group Meeting was held from October 12-13 in San Antonio, Texas. This meeting was a great opportunity for Christian schools to gain unparalleled accessibility to the software, product developers, technical support team, and executives at Alpha Omega Publications®. In addition, the staff of AOP was excited to meet and serve the users of our curriculum....

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Providing your school with the best technology-driven Christian curriculum, Alpha Omega Publications® has recently added a 2009 Switched-On Schoolhouse® course update to our website to enable you to update your school's database server with three exciting, new SOS electives, including Twentieth Century American History, Earth Science, and World Geography....

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