Archive for April, 2009
Another CC’er in Washington!
8 Apr 2009Oh, yes indeed! Glenn Cummings from S. Maine CC has been appointed Asst. Secr. of Education for vocational and adult education. Yes we can!
Next we rule the world!
7 Apr 2009The Chancellor of Foothill-DeAnza CC district has been appointed the Under Secretary of Education. Martha Kanter, you are my girl! I’m sure Foothill is crying at the loss though. Good leaders are tough to find and hold on to. This is great for CC’s. I know she won’t let us down so here [...]
Masks and Layers, I own you.
In: Cool Tools
6 Apr 2009In this installment of I’m Learning Photoshop, I took on the Working with Masks and Layers chapter from PS CS4 Classroom in a Book. Ok, masks are not easy. This lesson took me two hours. Masks are like taping off things you want to retain like taping off the trim when you paint a room. [...]
Community College All-Stars
6 Apr 2009Awesome article in USA Today about the “magical” community college. Try not to get all weepy when you read it: USA Today
Nursing, Second Life and Educause
4 Apr 2009This new article in the Educause Quarterly http://tinyurl.com/c3ug6e,
Virtual World Learning Spaces: Developing a Second Life Operating Room Simulation by Stephanie Gerald and David Antonacci from the Univ. of Kansas illustrates how SL can be used in medical education. They’ve created some really fantastic simulations for students. My favorite part is that the students’ interactions [...]
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Change Redux
4 Apr 2009Ok, I had to bring this topic back because I have found that I cannot, or should not, change the name of my blog to be less representative of my work as a librarian. I like being a librarian. I worked really hard to become a librarian. Like many people who are entering the [...]
Cooking with Grandma
In: General Whatnot
2 Apr 2009I love this series so much. Man, I really miss my Gram!! What a great idea for this filmmaker to bond with his grandmother in this way, and to let her tell her stories. This video has been viewed on YouTube over 200,000 times. How that must blow Clara’s mind. They [...]
I’m learning Photoshop once and for all
In: Cool Tools
1 Apr 2009I have PS CS4 Extended. I thought I could learn it on my own. Ha! Then came the endless stream of books that I either bought or brought home from work that I just knew would tell me everything if I stuck them on a shelf near the computer. I did make efforts to [...]
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