Here is an article about Betty Clay, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, who recently passed away at age 87.

New Splash Page for GGC -
Girl Guides of Canada (National Office) has updated their front page/splash page. It now includes links to all the provincial council websites, as well as information about Guiding in Canada in different languages. The national website itself has information about the new Honduras Twinning Challenge, as well as information about applying for the top jobs for the National Camp in 2006 (deadline May 24).

A neat tool for self-evaluation of Guiding knowledge is the "Rubric for Guider Evaluation" at the BC Council website - I just mentioned it on the National Link list as well.

"A rubric is an assessment tool. Assessment involves finding out where people are at a given moment in time. Before being able to make suggestions about areas upon which one might increase their knowledge, it is imperative to consider the individual’s developmental stage. Analytical rubrics (such as the one provided) enable the assessor(s) to easily ascertain the performance level on many criteria.

A RUBRIC
o Defines what is important
o Establishes a threshold of acceptable performance
o Allows the assessor(s) to distinguish between levels."





I'm off to co-facilitate a Beyond Stage 3 training session this weekend (in Alberta we call it Great Horned Owl).

From Google news - Guiding Monopoly and more

An article about a Guiding monopoly event in the UK. (saved article)

And an article from the Toronto Star about White Oaks Area day in March (article now unavailable).

A UK Guider plans to run in the London Marathon on April 18 in full Guiding uniform, in part to raise money for WAGGGS. (saved article)

And a Whistler BC RCMP Constable plus Guider went to India and Sangam in February and March, there's an article about her trip in the local paper. (saved article)

The Girlguiding UK website has a series about leadership entitled Motivate, including the September 2003 issue that is specifically for Guiders with Young Leaders working in their unit (equivalent to a Senior Branches member working in a girls' unit in Canada)

Music and job-hunting ...

Music is certainly an important part of Guiding/Girl Scouting, especially at camp, and an article in the Spring 2004 Leader magazine of GSUSA traces the history of music in Girl Scouting. (saved article)

Job-hunting isn't something we may connect to Guiding/Girl Scouting, but there's an article in the same issue of Leader about how volunteering can help you find your "plum job". (saved article)

Just for my husband Ed, now you can add comments (but if he says anything he shouldn't, I'll delete it!)

I found an interesting article about a Muslim Girl Scout troop in Brooklyn. (saved article)
And the pdf for the April issue of Blue-Print, the Alberta Guiders' newsletter is now online.

Since I like to look around the web for new Guiding updates and resources, I thought it would be neat to share them with people here. So, for my first entry, check out the latest issue of the Link Connections national newsletter for Spring 2004 - and while you're at it, why not check out the newly released Link Adviser Training Module as well, at the Link Resources section of the national Girl Guides of Canada website.