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General Helps
Adoption Learning Partners
free on-line Lifebook course
Dear Friend of Adoption Learning Partners:
I am pleased to announce the launch of our newest course, Lifebooks: Creating and Telling Your Child’s Story.
Developed in conjunction with professionals from the Illinois Department of Children
and Family Services and other adoption experts, Lifebooks will help adoptive
parents understand the importance and purpose of a Lifebook as a lifelong project, identify and understand its components, learn when and how to use it, and provide
the opportunity to create pages that can be the start of a Lifebook.
Users select a specific path that best describes their child’s adoption: child welfare or fostering, international
or domestic adoption. Sample layouts
and texts with colorful graphics, context-specific questions and answers, and powerful adoption stories provide additional
guidance. Many of the resources are available
as printable files and, as with our other courses, you can always return to review the course online and to continue work on your Lifebook.
Lifebooks carries 1.5 hours of
training credit and is available free of charge on the Adoption Learning Partners website. Certificates of completion
are available for a $30 fee.
I hope you will visit the website and enroll in this exciting new course. Thank
you for your support of Adoption Learning
Partners.
Sincerely,
Vicki DuFour
Executive Director
P.S.
If you don’t need a certificate, please consider making a donation in any amount to help us continue to develop courses for the adoption community.
Title Page Helps
One of the easiest ways to get the characters for your child's name without
having a translation program installed on your computer is to use www.tigernt.com or another onlien Chinese dictionary. Here
are the step by step instructions for tigernt.com.
Before you start you need to make sure that you have the MS Mincho font
as part of your MS Word Program. It is standard for most Word packages, but if you don't you need to go to the microsoft site
and download the MS Mincho font (the one used for all Asian characters).
Go the tigernet.com website and click on Chinese-English online dictionary.
You want to make sure the input is in pinyin and the Chinese output is in GB. Type in your
first pinyin word. Example:
My daughter's name is Fu Hui Ying. So I would type in Fu and then hit the "look up" button. There are 79 entries for Fu. I
know that Fu means "Good Fortune" or "Good Luck", so I scroll down the page looking for the right translation. Once I find
it under Fu[2], I highlight the character on the left handside
and right click my mouse so that I get a menu that has copy
in it. I click on copy and then open up MS Word and then right click again to bring up paste. You have now "pasted" the character
into a word document and you can highlight the character like you would any other text and you can increase the font size,
make it bold etc... You can
do this for all of the characters of your daughter's name.
Birth Page Helps
Here is a link for China weather:
After you click on the appropriate city, there will be a link in the lower
left that says "History and Almanac". I believe the dates go back to about 1996, or at least they did for the Guangzhou example
I chose.
I found this website that gives specific dates for zodiac signs, I think you were looking for something
like this recently:
http://www.silkroad-childbook.com/chinese-zodiac-sign.html
Here is a site that gives the actual chinese character for the zodiac animal:
http://www.chinese-symbols.com/chinese-zodiac.html
Today in Asian History
Historical events on your child's birth date.
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/thisweek/
Province Page Helps
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