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The snow has finally melted here in Ontario, Canada, and there's plenty of gardening to be done, ..including here at Rotation.org.

Planning, planting, re-arranging, pruning, weeding, feeding -- is it any wonder we at Rotation.org often use gardening metaphors for Sunday School, as well as, for working on our website?  

Here'a look at our garden this Spring...

Planning

This past January, I spent 3 days with our Rotation board planning out the 2015 rotation garden. Our "to do" list is big, but so is our enthusiasm. Here are 3 things we are working on right now:

1. Taking stock of all our Writing Team lessons -- and beginning to do some weeding and feeding to improve this amazing corner of our garden.

2. Working on helping new gardeners share their lesson ideas.

3. Looking at some new teacher training methods, including, "distance learning" through our site.

Are you interested in helping with these 3 needs?  

TELL US  flower Email me at luanne.payne@sympatico.ca

Planting

rotationplanting1Our members are "planting" new lesson content all the time: lesson plans, ideas, photos, and neat things like new teaching guides to videos, and creative new art projects.

What's really great about our plants, is that they are "perennials."  Good ideas and content are here now and will be here in the future when you need them.

Planting your creative lesson inspirations at rotation.org makes them available across denominations, across continents, and across the years!

Make a commitment to do more than just harvest other people's ideas...

PLANT SOMETHING flower

Re-arranging

Long-time members have seen BIG changes in the Rotation.org garden. As our garden and resources have grown, we've overhauled site organization and navigation, and refreshed many of our oldest & best materials.

As you walk the Rotation garden and see something that needs tending or replanting, copy that page's link and post it in our Contact/Suggestions forum or click the "report" icon on the post and leave a message.

SPOT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TENDING flower

Shaping & Pruning

We continue to both ADD new content, and RE-SHAPE older content. Hundreds of great lessons and articles have been updated and improved over the past two years.

In particular, we're making great strides in "readability." This past year we hired a part-time format editor who is winding her way through all the lessons as fast as we can afford her to work. She is improving lesson layout and readability, and doing things like adding lesson summaries and checking web links.  Any time you see something that needs help, post a message to...

SUGGEST A CHANGEflower

Weeding

We continue to "weed out" content that's spent, been superseded by something similar and better, or is no longer up to our evolving standards.

Weeding makes room for new growth, but it also leaves"holes" in some thin areas.  Last year, we identified numerous lesson holes and have been working on filling them through a combination of volunteer and expert help.  As you "walk the rows" of our site, look for "thin" places where you can plant something beautiful. Your idea may just be what another teacher a thousand miles away has been looking for.

FILL A LESSON NEED flower

Feeding

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The idea of improving on what others have shared is central to Rotation Model thinking, and made possible by our website software.

Some of our best lesson posts are those inspired by someone else's post.

BTW:
Don't let the "original post dates" on some lessons fool you!
Even our "old" content is getting refreshed by volunteer editors and added posts.

FIND & FEED AN IDEA flower

Expanding Our Garden Club

Simply put, we need Supporting Members to keep renewing their membership, and new members to become Supporting Members.

If you haven't yet done so, please join today.

Years ago we tended our garden on a shoestring budget. Through the generosity of our "Supporting Gardeners," we have since been able to afford web, lesson, editing, and coordinating help, and the terrific site software the enables our sharing.

And yet, like all gardens, the more we work in them, the more we see needs to be done. We are working on a vision for Rotation.org that's FULL of bloomers and weed-free. That vision takes time, content, commitment, and contributions.

At the risk of stretching the gardening metaphor too far, on behalf of my fellow Board members, Amy, Jaymie, Carol, Anne, and Cathy, let me finish by thanking you for helping to plant and tend this new and wonderful place. We'd also like you to contact us if you'd like to take on a greater role in our community garden.

We are empowered by the reality that we aren't merely raising a budget or bunch of great lesson ideas, ...but that we are helping raise children in the way they should go.

Together in His Garden,flower

Luanne Payne

President, Rotation.org

luanne.payne@sympatico.ca



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