| FETC 2008: Multimedia, presentation, and video tools
Adobe announced its Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software for the Macintosh platform. Photoshop Elements 6 streamlines photo editing with clean, uncluttered screens that draw focus to the photos and with new tabs that provide simple access to the program's many capabilities, Adobe said. .
Altadeña students take morning announcements to the next level
Each morning the broadcast club at Altadea Middle School meets 45 minutes before school starts to prepare for their daily morning announcements, broadcasted live into each classroom during first period. And they couldn’t be more thrilled. "Sometimes I have to boot out some students because I don’t want them to burn out," multimedia teacher Glenn Nienabor said. "I’d rather have them here for all three years then quit when they’re in sixth grade." Nienabor worked as sports reporter for the Mesa Tribune for seven years before he began his teaching career at Kyrene de la Colina Elementary School. It was at Colina where the broadcast club originated, and when he was asked to transfer to Altadea four years ago he had no intent of giving it up. "One of my conditions, so to speak, was that I could continue doing the morning announcements and the broadcast club," he said.
Jefferson Awards Nominations
Gore are supposed to be examples for us to live by. But with his movie, his Oscar and lavish lifestyle, it appears he's only talking the talk and not walking the walk. CA
Still Not Convinced - Part Two --Friday, February 23, 2007 From my home, I can peer out my window and see I-65 and I notice that the highway department is cutting back the trees so they don't grow over into traffic. With the millions of vehicles that travel that highway from Chicago to Mobile on a single day…shouldn't every living thing next to it be dead? And that includes the hundreds of thousands of cows that add their methane to the mix. Just sayin'. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what reaction my latest global warming post was going to bring. Somehow, my little ol' blog made it clear across the Northern Hemisphere – from California to Canada to the United States Senate! I sometimes forget how quick blogs are picked up and read, especially if it deals with such a (ehm) hot topic as global warming.
2006 audit didn't fix problems
The purchasing-card program provides commercial charge cards "for purchases that otherwise would have been purchased and paid for by other means, such as petty cash, or through issuing a purchase order and check," according to the most recent audit by Walls, who works for County Commission and was helped by the state comptroller's office. More than 300 county employees had the cards early last year - 170 under Ragsdale and 163 in other offices, including the sheriff, school system, trustee, county clerk, register of deeds and property assessor. But after criticism over personal travel and gasoline charged by Bone in June 2007, the mayor revoked about 160 of the purchasing cards under his control. He also commissioned a purchasing-card review committee, which looked at the manual and the program.
Community update
State Blvd.; 421-1320. G RABILL BRANCH: "Web 2.0" class, 7 p.m. Mondays through Jan. 28, must have at least one year of Internet experience, preregistration required; "Born to Read," infants and caregivers, 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays; "Smart Start Storytime," preschoolers and adult, 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays, designed to help beginning readers; "KIDZ Club," grades 1 to 5, explore art, geography, science, more, 3:30 p.m. Wednesday; "Paws to Read," children, practice reading skills with trained reading dog, 7 p.m. Thursdays; 13521 State St., Grabill; 421-1325. HESSEN CASSEL BRANCH: "Paws to Read," read to trained reading dog, 5 p.m. Mondays; "Smart Start Storytime," preschoolers and caregivers, 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays; "Teen Tuesdays," middle- and high-school students, games and crafts, 3:30 p.m.
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