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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Introducing the L.E.N.S. photo challenge

The LEarning Never Stops photo challenge

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was working on a bloggy secret project... well, here it is, bloggy friends.

I will be hosting The LEarning Never Stops photo challenge each Saturday here at
Home is Where You Start From. To play, enter your photo each week. Hopefully they will highlight learning happening in some form-but I know that some weeks it's just not realistic, so focus on the challenge part, and make sure you link up!

The Challenge part? - each week I will give a challenge that your entry needs to use/or highlight.

Entries will be accepted Saturday morning through Sunday-ending at 10 p.m. pacific time.

Two winners will be announced Tuesday evening. The winners will have their winning photo displayed here on my blog with links to the winner's blogs. (some weeks I might even have tangible prizes..we'll have to see how that works out..)

To enter, simply sign in with the linky I will set up, please enter the link to your specific entry only, not to your main page. Entries that do not meet the challenge subject, or are inappropriate will be deleted. This is a family-friendly blog, only G rated photos are allowed.
Feel free to grab the photo above, if you'd like to use it in your post-I will have a button soon.

Two important details:

please do not set up separate linkies at your own site, I want the entries to all be in one centralized place...here.
each week's photo entry needs to be a new photo(new to this contest photo), please do not re-submit photos already entered.

To Be eligable to win:

you must post the the name of the challenge at your blog, and link back here.
your photo must follow the subject/theme of that week
you must visit 3 other entries...and please try to leave an encouraging comment. This contest is not only about improving our photography skills and promoting family learning, but it is also about connecting to other bloggers.

The L.E.N.S. photo challenge is all about highlighting education and learning together as family. I also hope we can work together, learning new photography skills as we progress through each challenge. If you edit your photo, please share a little about what you did in your blog post.
Blogging is all about community and connections, I hope we will all discover new favorite blogs.

I hope you will join me next Saturday, May 29, 2010.

The challenge subject will be : A love of reading
Submit a photo that speaks to you about a love of reading, or about sharing a love of reading, what a love of reading looks like, or something along these lines. Get creative!

Labels: Lens, memes, photo challenge

posted at 1:00 PM
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12 Comments:

At 1:11 PM, Dana said...: This is such a great idea and can't wait to be apart of it!!
LOVE your headed photo!!
At 1:25 PM, Hen Jen said...: oh Squee! A comment already for the meme!

I love memes, but I'm a little afraid no one will come...

Thank You so much for the comment! I look forward to seeing your photo next Sat!
At 5:02 PM, Christi said...: Count me in!!
At 7:06 PM, Lori said...: Please count me in too! I love this idea and I put it on my calendar already. And I love the first topic, my wheels are already spinning.
At 8:22 PM, SillyHille said...: I found you from Pixel Perfect, and I love the photo challenge idea. My 22 month old doesn't read, so I hope that "Looking at books" counts?
I'd also love to read more about your homeschooling choice! My (previously mentioned) young daughter isn't ready yet, but it won't be long before we need to get her going, and I really want to homeschool but I don't even know where to begin and how to convince my husband that my instinct to do it is right! Any suggestions on reading material for a mom just putting her toe in the water??
At 3:12 PM, Hen Jen said...: Christi,

can't wait to see you entry!

Lori, looking forward to seeing what you have planned, as well!
At 3:15 PM, Hen Jen said...: SillyHille,

yes, looking at picture books with your baby does count! Reading to your baby encourages a love of reading! If you follow along sometimes with your finger as you read, you are teaching her that we read from left to right, and you are training her eyes to track as she reads. By stopping and commenting on the pictures, or asking "what do you think will happen?" or "oh no!", etc, you are teaching reading comprehension.

I'd love to see a pic of your baby looking at/or playing with books, or of you reading to her!

I'll email you about the homeschooling :)
At 5:47 PM, LJS said...: My favorite thing --- reading! Count us in for a photo!
At 9:04 AM, Courtney said...: LOVE this! I'm so in!
At 12:13 PM, Laura said...: I may join in on this!
I love photography and I love to read :)
At 2:47 PM, Mommylebron said...: I'm in! Added it to my bloggy to-do list! :)
At 5:47 AM, Lizzie said...: I'm in Jen!

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