About Eye2theWorld
Designed for all who realize learning continues throughout life, and that with the assistance of technology, future potentialities are limitless.
Eye2theWorld is beginning a partnership with Goshen Middle School, “Building Bridges Between Cultures.”
Introducing our new ezine, Eye2theWorld! Designed for all who realize learning continues throughout life and that with the assistance of technology future potentialities are limitless. Take a look below, and if you like what you see, visit often. You can also opt to subscribe to receive our articles by email or RSS using the links to the right. Your only cost will be a few seconds of your time.
We know your time is limited. We also know there are many people who have ideas that they can share with you via interviews, articles, books and web sites. We intend to pick some of the “best of the best” that we feel can benefit you as you think about your life ahead. Education is at the heart! In these issues we’ll select materials designed to stimulate ideas. Send us your comments. Our mission is your concerns. Are you concerned about:
- • How the state of education today affects your career, your family, your community, and your country?
- • Whether you have the skills to be secure and satisfied with your life, both personally and in your professional career?
- • What we need to know as we become more inundated with innovative educational technologies?
- • New ideas that can help you, your children, and others learn faster and better?
These and other ideas will be featured in Eye2theWorld, this new ezine created to give you, regardless your age, a voice to help you prepare for your future. You can be a part of this exciting venture by regularly visiting this site!
In essence, this is what Eye2the World is all about. Learning is about seeing. As many students have said after making a discovery, “Now I see!” Our tagline, “Seeing Tomorrow Today” means that you can build your knowledge and skills so that you envision the future more intelligently. We can plan accordingly together. Our mission is to help you to start to build your future today.
WE WANT THIS TO BE YOUR SITE FOR INFORMATION RELATED TO EDUCATION AND WHAT YOU’D LIKE TO SEE AND HEAR.
 Joe Rueff |
Joseph Rueff, President of Eye2theWorld, Inc., has been associated with education in various degrees for more than 50 years. Joe graduated from DePauw University with majors in American History and Political Science, and received a comprehensive secondary school teaching certificate in social studies, qualifying him to teach any social science course offered in middle schools and high schools. He then received a Master’s Degree from Indiana University in School Administration. He taught social studies at North Side Junior High School in Elkhart for 11 years, chairing the department for one year before leaving to coordinate a special program in social science research with Purdue University. As a part of that work he was involved in editing and national marketing of a social studies program titled “Our Working World”, published by Science Research Associates. Joe has also taught and coordinated economics programs for teachers with the Indiana Council for Economic Education at Purdue, has been an adjunct instructor in the School of Education at Indiana University South Bend, and since retiring in 1990, started four non-profits devoted to education, especially related to the use of telecommunications technologies as learning tools. Read more about Joe Rueff… |
 Juana Watson |
Juana O. Watson is Professor of Latino Affairs with the Graduate Theological Foundation, an adjunct of Oxford University.
Born in Calnali, Hidalgo, Mexico, Dr. Watson arrived in Indiana in 1978 and, while furthering her education, worked to educate non-Latinos about Latino issues. She has founded two Latino/Hispanic community centers and the non-profit organization Badges Without Borders (Placas Sin Fronteras) which provides public safety personnel with education in the Spanish language and cultural and diversity training in order to increase the quality of service to communities in Indiana. Dr. Watson holds the Master of Arts in Latin American and Caribbean Studies with a Latino Studies concentration from Indiana University. In 2005, she was requested by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to serve as Senior Advisor for Latino Affairs in the Office of the Governor, a position she occupied as Senior Advisor for Latino, Immigrant, ethnic and International Affairs until late 2008. Her responsibilities in this position included, but were not limited to, advising the governor on Latino Affairs, providing counsel to the governor on policy issues related to the Hispanic community and visiting various communities and organizations to better represent the interests of the Latino community of Indiana. Prior to her position with the Daniels administration, she was appointed by both Indiana Governor O’Bannon and Indiana State Senator Garton to the Indiana Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs. Dr. Watson has also served in the capacity of Advisor to President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico as a representative of Mexican immigrants of Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. In 2008, she earned the Doctor of Education from the Graduate Theological Foundation. In 2009 Dr. Watson was recognized by the Indiana Women’s Commission as one of six outstanding women in Indiana. Dr. Watson presently serves as Vice President of Eye2theWorld, Inc., in Goshen. She directs the organization’s Michiana Office for Multi Ethnic and International Affairs. Areas of Service E-Tutorial Offering |
 Ganesh De Silva |
Originally from island nation of Sri Lanka, Ganesh De Silva attended Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, on a tennis scholarship. Having played for Purdue tennis at #2 and # 1 positions, he graduated with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering. He also continued his tennis career playing in the pro circuit and later qualified as a Teaching Tennis Professional. As an engineer, he worked in the Housing, Automotive, Air-Conditioning and General Engineering Consultancy and as a tennis teacher, coached at various Indiana schools in Lafayette, and Marion and Elkhart Counties.
He sponsored his sister and brother to attend Lafayette Jefferson High School, where both of them got a tennis ranking of #1 in the Indiana. They continued their education at the University of Illinois, and Indiana Wesleyan University, respectively. Lately, he has assisted 14 boys and girls from Sri Lanka to obtain tennis scholarships at Universities in the U.S., and thus follow the American dream that he has achieved. More information can be found at http://nitf.tripod.com/ Ganesh is married to Shani, a native of Sri Lanka who is also an environmental engineer. She partners Ganesh in their engineering consulting business, Delta Engineering U.S.A. Ganesh and Shani reside in Elkhart. Ganesh acts as General Consultant to Eye2theWorld and specializes in international projects. Most recently he chaired the development of an International Trade Fair which was co-sponsored at the Concord Mall in Elkhart with support from the Mall, Sam’s Club, and the Elkhart TRUTH. |
