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Tutoring Surveys Our Fall 2008 tutoring evaluations are now online. 
Register Online with MyOASIS Most OASIS centers now offer online class registration through MyOASIS. OASIS Journal 2008 
is now available from amazon.com and
barnesand noble.com.
This year's book is a larger format, 352 pages, and a great buy at $14.
Get free shipping on two copies. It makes a great holiday gift!
OASIS Newsletter The September issue of Outlook has the latest on our Immigrant Experience and Active Start programs. Connections Class Evaluations If you have taken one of our Connections computers classes, your feedback will be very helpful to us! Click here to complete a quick survey. Here's a great way to honor loved ones You can honor or remember someone important in your life with a gift to the OASIS Tribute fund. More information | |
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Enrich Your Life!Cast Your Vote! What should our next humanities program tackle? 
Last week we voted for national, state and local candidates across the country. Now you can vote for the next major OASIS humanities program.
We offer three program ideas to consider: health & medicine, technology, and the American city.
Vote today to help us choose a topic for our next proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities. The polls are open now through Friday, November 21. Seize this chance to let your voice be heard!
Suitcase Brings the Immigrant Experience to Tutors and Children 
A small, black suitcase is traveling to each OASIS Tutoring Program this fall. Inside, tutors will find America: Land of Immigrants -- five new packets of session plans and books to explore with their students the experience of becoming an American citizen, understand what it is like to be the "new kid," and share some of the symbols that represent America to the world.
All the new activities also available on Tutor Power. This is a great way to share your own heritage with your students, and help them explore their own. For more information, contact your OASIS tutoring coordinator.
OASIS Stories of Immigration Published by Ellis Island Foundation 
While Mikhail Daghir found after arriving from Syria in 1920 that the streets in America were not paved with gold, his daughter Gladys Powell says he still found freedom and opportunity to make a good life.
Powell wrote about her family's story this spring with guidance through the Albuquerque OASIS "Tell Us Your Story" class. Hers and other OASIS members' stories are now published on the Ellis Island website.
More.
Cell Phone Coaches Draw a Crowd 
Cell phone coaching events co-sponsored by OASIS and AT&T continue around the country this fall. Recent events in cities around the country have drawn crowds of people eager to learn how to use their phones more effectively.
In San Diego more than 100 people signed up for one-on-one help to learn how to use any brand of mobile phone.
Lois considered herself a computer whiz, but not a "phoner." Her grandkids tease her for having a cell phone but not using it. She didn't even know her phone could send text messages, but now will be using it.
More of these events are scheduled across the country in the next several months.
More about cellphone classes offered by OASIS and AT&T.
Video Shows What Volunteers Love About TutoringYou too can help a child learn to love reading and learning! Check out our video of OASIS tutors sharing their experiences for the inside story on this rewarding program. "What I like the best is that I'm helping someone who needs a little extra help," says Mary Jane Lamping, one of the tutors who spoke with us on the program. "And I'm helping teach that person to love to read. I love to read, and if I can do that, it's wonderful for me." Learn more. | |
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