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Wilson Students Celebrate Hmong New Year
On Wednesday, November 24, K-3 students in the Wilson Elementary School ELL program took part in the school's first annual Hmong New Year Celebration. During the week prior to the celebration, students read the book "Dia's Story Cloth," which is written by Dia Cha. Students then made their own story cloths and then held a parade through the school dressed in traditional Hmong clothing or hats that they had made.
After the parade, students played traditional games and enjoyed a lunch prepared by the ELL staff. The ELL staff members dressed in Hmong clothing that they purchased from Laos and China with the help of coworker Samantha Vang.
Staff members, shown from left to right, Amy Moua, Lisa Thiel, Rebecca Muehlberger,
Maria Herman, Kerri Olsen and Samantha Vang.
Sheboygan Area School District Press Release
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LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) -- Police in North Carolina have arrested a man accused of sucking on a woman's toes at a Wal-Mart after convincing her that he was a podiatry student.
Authorities say Michael Anthony Brown was arrested Thursday night at his home in Concord. He was turned over to Lincolnton police. A Lincoln County magistrate set his bond at $50,000 on a charge of assault on a female. It's wasn't immediately known if Brown has an attorney.
Detective Dennis Harris said the woman agreed to try on several pairs of shoes at the store in Lincolnton. Harris says at some point, the man stuck her foot in his mouth. Police say when the woman became upset, the man offered to pay for her groceries.
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And so the dancing began...
Back to School with Newspaper Dancing
And so the dancing began...
22 comments:
Awesome idea! Thank you so much for sharing. I have seen this with hoola hoops but newspaper is so much easier!ReplyDelete
stop by some time :)
Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I am your newest follower! I am a new blogger and love connecting with other upper grade teachers!
Fancy Free in Fourth
- AnonymousAugust 4, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Great idea! I'm going to try this!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Great idea! Would you share some of the tunes that you moved to?ReplyDelete
Gettin' Jiggy Wit It by Will SmithReplyDelete
Rock Around the Clock
Fun, Fun, Fun -Beach Boys
Thank God I'm a Country Boy
We Got the Beat
That's the Way I Like It
...there were more I just can't remember them! :-)
Wonderful idea and very tangible way to reinforce "personal space." KarenReplyDelete
Love this idea, so stealing it! Please please please post about your lap packs - I'm a music teacher without a classroom, and this looks like something that could be really helpful!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful idea I can share with my daughter's second grade teacher. I can also work this into a fractions lesson for my preservice teachers.ReplyDelete
What a great idea. I will have to share this with my daughter's second grade teacher. I can also work in a fractions lesson with my preservice teachers.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 7:43 AM
I am an elementary school counselor and love this idea. I have done hula hoops, but the kids would love to be able to dance as well as learn the personal space lesson. Thank youReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM
As a Pre-K teacher we talk about "personal space bubbles"...this would be a great way to illustrate and have them understand it in a visual way...thanks for the idea.ReplyDelete
Excellent idea with minimal resources! Thanks for sharing! Lisa from Blackburn Primary School Melbourne, AustraliaReplyDelete
Excellent idea with minimal resources! Thanks for sharing! Lisa from Blackburn Primary School Melbourne, AustraliaReplyDelete
This is a great idea. I plan to use it in my social skills classes to help us defeat the Unthinkable, Space Invader. I just started a blog, look for a link to your great idea there!ReplyDelete
Smart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First Graders need this!ReplyDelete
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Fun and creative way to reinforce the concept of personal space!Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
great idea! thanks for sharing:) definitely using it for my movement class:) would love to hear more ideas too:) thanks again:)ReplyDelete
This is genius! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas!ReplyDelete
This is a great activity that could also connect with the musical, Newsies! They dance on newspapers in the Broadway version!ReplyDeleteReplies
I love that idea! :-)Delete
Fun, creative, purposeful. Love it!!! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
awesome idea..I'm so going to try this... thx for sharing :)ReplyDelete


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Andrej Meszaros Signs With Buffalo
by Paul on 07/01/14 at 04:09 PM ET
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Report Of Meszaros Going To Boston
by Paul on 03/05/14 at 03:46 PM ET
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Flyers Lose Meszaros For At Least Four Weeks
by Paul on 01/25/13 at 03:48 PM ET
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via the Philadelphia Flyers website,
Another game and another Flyer has been bitten with the injury bug.
Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren updated the media on the status of defenseman Andrej Meszaros before departing for the team's trip to Florida.
"Andrej Meszaros has a left shoulder injury. He's going to miss some time and right now we're hopeful it's going to be a four-week rehabilitation of the injury. It's a muscle injury in and around the shoulder joint and we just have to get it strong. We believe he's going to be out for about a month."
Holmgren also spoke of the recent plague of injuries the Flyers have had to endure.
"We've lost three players: Rinaldo, Hartnell and now Meszaros to somewhat significant injuries. I'm not sure we're much different than a lot of teams in the league we just have to fight through it and take the approach that it's opportunities for other players."
added 3:00pm,
The Philadelphia Flyers have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with RW Mike Knuble and have also recalled D Andreas Lilja from their American Hockey League affiliate, the Adirondack Phantoms, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. Both Knuble and Lilja will be available for tomorrow night's game at Florida. Knuble will wear #9.
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Flyers Will Know Tomorrow On Extent Of Meszaros Injury
by Paul on 01/24/13 at 11:23 PM ET
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Flyers Lose Andrej Meszaros To Achilles Tendon Injury
by Paul on 08/07/12 at 11:16 AM ET
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INJURY NEWS: GM Paul Holmgren on (D) Andrej Meszaros: "Andrej had successful surgery this morning to repair a torn right achilles tendon."— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) August 7, 2012
More from Paul Holmgren: "Andrej was injured last week during summer training in Slovakia. Andrej will be out indefinitely."— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) August 7, 2012
added 10:31am, from Dave Isaac of Flyer Files,
Subject to change, here is what the Flyers' top two pairings looks like: Braydon Coburn — Kimmo Timonen, Nick Grossmann — Luke Schenn. Where do they go after that?
Well, Andreas Lilja and Bruno Gervais are certainly possibilities, but this is also a chance for Holmgren and the Flyers to give one of their young players a shot to stick around full-time.
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Andrej Meszaros- Two Minutes For Clipping & Throw-In An Unsportsmanlike Conduct
by Paul on 11/19/10 at 01:20 PM ET
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Dana Tyrell, the recipient of the hip-check gone bad, is OK.
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Video- Trent Hunter Five For Boarding Plus Ten And A Game Misconduct
by Paul on 10/30/10 at 11:28 PM ET
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Andrej Meszaros was the victim of the hit.
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Meszaros Find A Home In Philly
by Paul on 10/01/10 at 10:52 AM ET
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from Frank Seravalli of the Philadelphia Daily News,
The Flyers traded for Meszaros on July 1. Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman jumped at the opportunity to unload Meszaros' salary-cap albatross for just a second-round pick.
Despite his heavy price tag, Meszaros - who has 4 years left at $4 million per season - could fit in with the Flyers exactly as he did with the Ottawa Senators, whom he helped guide to the Stanley Cup finals in 2007.
Meszaros was clearly miscast as a No. 1. Although he is paid like a top-end defenseman, he could fit in anywhere on the Flyers' deep blue line from No. 2 through No. 5.
"There is always some pressure, but obviously not as much as in Tampa," Meszaros said yesterday. "I didn't mind the pressure. There is always a lot of pressure. You want to be the best and you want to play a lot. We have eight good defensemen here, and they can play. It will be a good fit here."
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Turnaround in Tampa Starts at the Top
by Jon Jordan on 09/20/10 at 10:10 PM ET
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Before a single tweak to the roster, the Tampa Bay Lightning were already poised for improvement in 2010-11. With the tumultuous era of previous ownership already behind them when the sale of the team to Jeff Vinik was completed late last season, gone in an instant were any and all off-ice concerns and the circus went back to being an annual visitor to the St. Pete Times Forum rather than a permanent resident. With the appointment of Steve Yzerman as general manager, credibility returned to the franchise and new head coach Guy Boucher was widely regarded as the hottest commodity on the off-season coaching market.
Without a solitary player move, hockey life in Tampa was good again.
But far be it from Yzerman to rest on the comfort that fans surely feel by him simply not being one of those other guys. The addition of former Flyers forward Simon Gagne headlines a list of shrewd off-season maneuvers for the rookie GM and the revamped roster could very well translate to the sort of on-ice success that will make Lightning followers quickly forgot about three non-playoff seasons gone by.
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Raw Charge's Five Questions for JJ
by Jon Jordan on 09/08/10 at 12:10 PM ET
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The staff at SB Nation's Raw Charge finishes up their Five Questions, Five Answers series today with my responses to their Southeast Division inquries.
Check out the entire piece here, as well as the previous two installments, featuring my The Bolts Beat co-host, Mike Corcoran and Pete Choquette from Bolt Prospects.
As I touched on in closing out this interview, this division as a whole is on the upswing, making the timing of my expanded coverage even more exciting.
Enjoy the Q&A here… And, please, pay my friends at Raw Charge a well-deserved visit.
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Andrej Meszaros Takes A Shot To The Throat & On The Ice For The 3rd Period
by Paul on 04/08/10 at 11:43 PM ET
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From having trouble breathing to back on the ice.. have to give Meszaros credit for this one.
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Reflecting on Last Years Senators
by Alanah McGinley on 10/03/08 at 05:42 PM ET
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From Peter O'Neil of Canwest in the Leader Post,
Former Ottawa Senators defencemen Wade Redden and Andrej Meszaros rejected Friday speculation that their former team's collapse last year was linked to excessive partying.
The two players, who will play against each other here Saturday when Redden's New York Rangers face the Tampa Bay Lightning, also said they never witnessed inappropriate off-season behaviour involving former teammate Ray Emery, who was asked during an interview with ESPN.com in August about whether he used recreational drugs.
Both players cited other reasons - Redden spoke of a failure to maintain the team's historic commitment to team defence, while Meszaros suggested that exhaustion over the long playoff run the year before ultimately led to Ottawa's second-half flop.
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Meszaros Happy In Tampa
by Paul on 09/26/08 at 09:12 AM ET
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Craig Custance at the Sporting News Today has a look at Tampa defenseman Andrej Meszaros. Meszaros is beginning to feel comfortable in Tampa and hopes the feeling remains for the next six years.
Read more on Meszaros and many other hockey notes at the Sporting News Today., You may have to register, but it takes ten seconds and it is free.
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Too Much For Meszaros
by Paul on 09/01/08 at 09:05 PM ET
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from Kevin Allen of Mucking and Grinding,
Even those of us who believes that defenseman Andrei Meszaros is a good fit for the Tampa Bay Lightning believe they paid too much to get him.
While Meszaros has the most potential of anyone included in the deal between Tampa and Ottawa, it's my assessment that the Senators have spun a bad situation into a good deal for their hockey club.
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Meszaros Wanted Too Much Money
by Paul on 08/30/08 at 10:15 AM ET
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from Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun,
"It got to the point where the dollars were just too much for us," Murray said in a conference call last night. "We thought it was at a point where we weren't going to be able to do it. I wasn't able to make the adjustment with my salary structure.
"The last two years, (Meszaros' play) has left a lot to be desired. I know Filip Kuba well and he's really going to help us. I know he's excited about this change. As for Picard, he's local guy with a lot of potential. We feel good and the first-round pick is also going to help us."
Murray said Kuba, Chris Phillips, Anton Volchenkov and Jason Smith will be club's top four blueliners this season.
added 2:25pm, from the Tampa Bay Lightning,
The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed defenseman Andrej Meszaros to a six-year contract today, executive vice president of hockey operations Brian Lawton announced. Meszaros was acquired from the Ottawa Senators yesterday in exchange for defensmen Filip Kuba and Alexandre Picard as well as a first-round draft pick in 2009 (previously acquired).
"The acquisition and signing of Andrej is a strong statement to our players and our fans that the Lightning ownership group is committed to putting the best product on the ice now and for years to come," Lawton said.
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Meszaros Traded To Tampa
by Paul on 08/29/08 at 09:02 PM ET
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via TSN,
The Ottawa Senators have traded defenceman Andrej Meszaros to the Tampa Bay Lightning for defencemen Filip Kuba, Alexandre Picard and a first round pick (previously acquired from San Jose).
Update 8:39pm ET (alanah): Also noted at the TSN link is this contract info—
Sources add that Meszaros is expected to sign a six-year contract with the Lightning averaging $4 million a season.
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Meszaros Talk
by Paul on 08/29/08 at 06:16 PM ET
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from Adam Proteau of the Hockey News,
Two high-ranking NHL sources confirmed to THN.com Friday that the Lightning are extremely interested in bringing the restricted free agent defenseman to Tampa Bay, but because they currently do not have their own 2009 third round draft pick that would allow them to sign Meszaros to an offer sheet, Tampa's attempts at acquiring him may have hit a roadblock.
From there, the picture gets a little less clear….
Lightning management has been completely rebuffed by Pens GM Ray Shero, who does not wish to be even remotely associated with an RFA offer sheet.
Because of Shero's reticence, the source said, Tampa Bay has been attempting to finalize a trade for Meszaros with Senators GM Bryan Murray that would not include the first, second and third round picks necessary for an offer sheet to work. But, according the source, Murray currently has "no impetus" to work out a trade for the 23-year-old blueliner.
but wait, there is more...
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Who Could Or Not Be Interested In Meszaros
by Paul on 08/29/08 at 02:22 PM ET
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from Craig Custance's Blog,
Since the Andrej Meszaros camp isn't being real helpful in identifying the team that has made a reported offer sheet to the young defenseman, I'm trying to figure it out the old-fashioned way: The process of elimination. Sure, it's not real efficient but on a Friday afternoon when there's not a ton of hockey news to chase down it's entertaining….
I've got a confirmed no on a signed offer sheet from the GM's of three teams I thought might be possibilities: Atlanta, Phoenix and Columbus.
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Meszaros Negotiations At An Impasse
by Paul on 08/28/08 at 04:55 PM ET
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from TSN,
The Ottawa Senators and restricted free agent defenceman Andrej Meszaros are still far apart in discussion about a new contract.
Senators general manager Bryan Murray spoke to the media at the Bell Sensplex on Thursday and addressed the impasse.
"We've tried to make presentations with a variety of offers and terms, but they've been rejected at this point and time," Murray told reporters. "So there's nothing more."
Update 5:49pm ET: Reports that Meszaros has signed an offer sheet.
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Meszaros Still Unsigned
by Paul on 08/24/08 at 09:12 AM ET
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from Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun,
"Right now, asking me if he's going to be in training camp, the only answer I can give is I'm not sure. But we've still got a lot of time and we're fully focused on trying to get a deal done," said Meszaros' agent, Gerry Johansson.
"Our No. 1 priority is to get a deal done with the Senators. That's where Andrej wants to be. I'd say at this point, we're optimistic that we'll be able to get a deal done, but I can't tell you that we're close. We've still got work to do to make this happen."
Summer-long talks between Meszaros' camp and Senators GM Bryan Murray to get a deal done have been fruitless despite hours of discussions.
It's believed the Senators have offered a contract in the range of $3.5 million (all terms US) a season on a long-term deal, but Meszaros is likely looking at something closer to the $4.5 million per year that Shea Weber received on a three-year deal with the Predators this summer.
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Running Out of Money
by Alanah McGinley on 07/11/08 at 12:58 PM ET
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From Bruce Garrioch at the Ottawa Sun,
That means Ottawa only has $9.8 million left to sign winger Antoine Vermette and defenceman Andrej Meszaros while it searches for a second-line winger and a puck-moving defenceman.
The Senators usually like to keep $1 million for injuries or a possible move at the trade deadline, so Murray is in a bit of a pickle as he awaits Vermette's arbitration case.
A league executive predicted yesterday that based on Vermette's 24 goals and 29 assists last season, he'll probably be awarded around $3.5 million in arbitration. The executive said the $3.75-million average salary R.J. Umberger, who had 13 goals and 37 assists last season, recently signed for with Columbus is a good comparison.
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Senators Free Agency Challenges
by Alanah McGinley on 06/10/08 at 08:19 PM ET
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From Ken Warren at Canwest News via the National Post,
The club already has $32.3 million US locked up in the '08-09 salaries of Heatley, Spezza, Daniel Alfredsson, Mike Fisher, Martin Gerber and Chris Phillips.
The Senators must re-sign restricted free agents Antoine Vermette and Andrej Meszaros, while also contemplating whether to re-sign unrestricted-free-agent centre Cory Stillman, winger Shean Donovan and defenceman Mike Commodore, or any other player who may become available on July 1.
Commodore, for one, wants to know who the club's new coach is before weighing his options on whether to return.
read on… *negotiations with Chris Kelley not going well, either
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Well, after reading all these stories I'm glad I stayed with my hunch that this was a money making org and not about publishing poetry. I was suspicious that my very first poem entered, one of the first I'd written (cause it had to be short) had won a published spot so EASILY. I searched for the book and saw this HUGE bound book, with hundreds of poems.... At $85.00 bucks a person, that gave me more warnings... I even found a song my Mother wrote before she died... I was shocked at that, more so when it let me open it and claim it as mine, just by saying that I was the rightful author (I figured through inheritance I was the rightful OWNER....
The deal for the tapes came next, I thought, well, more $$ attached... If this is as good as they say, they should be paying me... ... I'd wait and see....
Finally, the news came about the banquet and the awards I'd win... A $600.00 banquet, sounded even more like a scheme... Most I'd attended were no more than $100-$200 perhaps this was all "top-notch." Well, needless to say, despite the fact I'd gone as far as considering going to this event.... I dug for more on poetry.com and found this sight.... I was relieved to expose the truth before I paid the price...
Still, this is an underhanded way of taking people's money... Preying on their hopes and dreams... Don't worry..."GOD'S GONNA GETCHA" for that....
Thanks for the final INSIGHT... whomever set up this Sight..
WRITERSWEEKLY.COM COMMENT: We stopped posting complaints about Poetry.com long ago because we couldn't keep up with them (so many!). However, this heart-breaking story is one you have to read.
I wrote, 'Saga Of Americans,' a poem about the September 11, 2001 attack on New York. I wrote it for the loved ones everyone lost that day. I e-mailed President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush with a copy of my poem. I wanted them to have as a keepsake for memories of what happened on that day, one we will always remember.
My brother told me to enter it in a contest, because he thought it was very good. A lot of people said it was. So I searched the engines for a place to enter it. I just typed in: poetry.com, you know if you're looking for movies you'd type in: movies.com.
Walla! It was there, poetry.com contest entries click here.... I did and entered my poem. A few days went by. Then I received via-mail that it has earned me recognition. It is to be entered into their hard-bound yearly copy of: 'Under A Quick Silver Moon.' But I can see my poem in it for only $50.00.
I didn't have the money, but was so happy, I cried! I couldn't believe it. I thought about the September 11, 2001 and all those loved ones the world lost, then I thought of their families. God must have put grace into the way I re-arranged the rhyming paragraphs, I thought. Because you were only allowed to enter only so many lines. I had to change my poem around a bit.
More days passed on and with them another letter from Poetry.com. This one stated that I had to initial my poem for permission to put into a CD and Cassette in The Sound of Poetry, in the Spoken Word edition. But of course, I needed to send in more money if I wanted to see it in print. They even went as far as to use how glad the family and friends would be. I couldn't believe it! It was really happening to me! I was so happy!
Finally after all the years of writing behind me, somehow a miracle had come true. I never sent any money. I thought if my poem had earned me all that, I wouldn't have to send a dime. It would just be in print, right? Then it came, the e-mail. I was e-mailed not only a generous way of an invitation to their 2002 March Symposium, in Orlando, Florida but to present my poem, 'Saga Of Americans,' and to receive The International Merit Award and Medallion. I screamed and cried! I couldn't believe it. I waited for my husband to get home. I told him and he was so proud and happy for me that he promised to take me to receive my awards in person, and take the children to Disney World. It was great. It was all working out, this year's vacation to be there! When I searched more via the Internet on the merit and medallion, I almost fainted, they were legit. Then, when I clicked on 'symposiums', of course Poetry.Com came up. That is when I found out how expensive it would be to just enter the symposium for a family of four, myself included.
I would cost more than $2,500.00 to enter! Then we had to take care of our own hotel at $100.00 per day, for three days, and that was because I was supposed to say I am with the IPS.
I called them on the phone that was advertised on the Internet for them. Spoke to an assistant of Dr. Len Roberts, Educational Director (the person who sent me the invite via-e-mail.)
I explained to this assistant that I regretted to inform him I was not going to be able to attend because of the unexpected expense just to enter the symposium. I asked if they could just mail my awards, of course with all due fragility. He declined and said I was not going to receive any awards. Then I asked what they were going to do with my awards. Again he said I was not going to receive anything. I asked if we took our children on the grounds if I couldn't just peek and pick-up my awards, that he wouldn't have to mail them. He said, "No!"
I asked him if anything he just told me sounded right to him. He said they had been doing this for twelve years! I told him I was going to take it the BBB. Then I mentioned how sadly a position I was put under by them, how Poetry.Com had made me a mock before my family and friends, my husband and children. Not that they are laughing or did. But the shame I felt. I told him I would have to explain to my hometown newspaper editor and many other friends, and I also had to let the President and The First Lady know about the let down of, 'Saga Of Americans.'
He said, "Well, I'm hanging up now."
If you do have a class-action please include me on your list. In the meantime, people let the others know, pass the word around. Include it on your web-page, anywhere! Let the people know!!
Thank you, for this site.
Shirley Billingsley wrote:
I have been completely happy with their service. Not one time have I had to "buy" anything. I have been published in numerous books, and on tape. This year I won $100.00 from them for a simple little project that took less than two minutes to complete. I have no complaints about Poetry.com.
Name Withheld
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I teach seventh grade English, and I encourage my students to participate in legitimate writing contests. Over the past three years I have had students that tell me they were SOOOOOO excited that they had already won a poetry contest on an Internet site! I am sure you know, it is always poetry.com. Some proudly bring in the purchased book, and with pride, show me requests they received to participate in bigger and bigger (read $ and $) "opportunities." Have you ever tried to tell a child that the site is trying to sell them something? I am sure their parents are afraid to tell them, too, as they also fear the demoralized child will never submit writing again...
Terry Gibson wrote:
After completing some work during a university creative writing class, I decided to submit some poetry on line. I sent in "Paranoia" because it was my best and very quickly received a letter in the mail.
It was also from Howard Ely and stated that my poem beat out thousands and thousands of people and would be published in "Nature's Echoes", which was, supposedly, released in January 2001. Needless to say, I was excited about it - in fact, I cried. I sure feel silly now though. To finish, I was also going to scrape up the money but decided I'd buy later.
I find this rip-off from Poetry.com extremely disgusting. It quashes the spirit of so many writers -- making us lose valuable dollars and the courage to reveal our love of language elsewhere.
Melanie Stratton wrote:
It was a few years ago, before they were really on the Internet. I had written a poem to my Grandmother, and heard of this contest, so I entered. They sent me a very nice letter saying that I had won and that my poem would be featured in an upcoming anthology. I knew that it was a scam when they told me it would cost me money to publish MY poem, but I wanted my grandmother to see it in print and dedicated to her (before she died). FOUR years, and $85 later, I FINALLY got the book. My grandmother had since died. Paging through the shoddy, flimsy book full of horrible - and I mean B*A*D poetry, I realized that my poem wasn't even in it. Part of me was angry that I was taken. Part of me was glad that my work would never be associated with such an underhanded, cruel operation.
Igwoods wrote:
I was published several times by this company but I could never afford to buy the products (Thank God!). But I wanted to let everyone know that not only was I asked to pay for all of this, but they (Poety.com) wanted me to pay them to take classes in Poetry to advance my writing. I also was sent a letter telling me I had won an award and to claim it I would have to travel to Washington D.C. footing the bill for my accommodations and my guests along with paying to attend the symposium at which my award would be given. Now I tell you, sometimes being a poor person pays off. I saved a lot of money and disappointment.
I've forwarded copies to Angela of all the letters and offers and I hope they will help before someone else has their dreams crushed by Poetry.com's dose of false praise. I now don't know whether I'm a worthy poet or someone who for several months just thought I was. Thanks Angela for bringing the truth to me before it went to far.
Teri wrote:
I entered the competition advertised on the poetry.com website and then received a letter explaining how my poem would be published. I kept the letter which had the poem copyrighted in my name and then visited my poem on the website. However I refused to buy the anthology. When I didn't buy anything my name and poem disappeared off of the website and I couldn't find the anthology. I sent many complaints but never got any answer.
Sapphire Hodges wrote:
I cannot tell you how excited I was to get a notice that poetry.com would publish my poem, the first I've ever published. They had all kinds of little notes on the side of the acceptance letter saying things like "nice prose!!" And they kept saying how they were soo picky and this was a big honour, because my poem was sooo beautiful and they were going to put it in a big beautiful book, (something about nature, I can't remember the name...) Sure it was disappointing when the book featuring my poem cost so much, but the real kicker came later when my brother, (probably out of jealousy, and don't tell him I said that) entered one of his poems. It was a jumble of nursery rhymes and about the stupidest poem ever written, but he also got an acceptance note, in the SAME book as my beautiful poem, with the SAME little "nice prose" notes and the whole 'this is such an honour cause we are sooooo picky' junk. Ouch!!!
What a humiliating rip-off! Who do they think they are?!
Doug Thiele wrote:
I'm a pro lyricist and a published poet. My lyrics have been recorded by major artists, and my latest chapbook of poetry was published by a small publishing house in Chicago.
I'm writing because I was president of a non-profit songwriter organization in Hollywood which, among other things, tried to protect songwriters from scams. The situation with many of the poetry organizations you've described is common in all fields of writing...songwriting, poetry, short story and novel writing, etc.. These organizations play on some writers' unrealistic expectations and suspicions about the business. Their job is to separate writers from their money. We call the song scammers "song sharks." Maybe these poetry orgs. should be called "Poem sharks."
I've seen and dealt with lots of these scams, and your subscribers should be aware of a couple of things. First, anyone who wants money from you for publishing or reading services is trying to rip you off. No legitimate publisher will take money from you up front. Second, what these people are doing is legal. That's right, legal. They're not promising to deliver something they don't. Cavaet emptor.
What you can do, folks, is to support the legitimate poetry magazines and publishers. Yes, it's really hard to get published there, but that's the point. You might want to find poetry outlets that are there for the love of the written word. I'm a peer award winner at PrairiePoetry.com, and can recommend them to you. The fact that Writers Weekly is trying to help speaks well for them as well.
Don't be discouraged...keep on getting your poetry out there. But as they say, "Trust in Allah but tie up your camel. Good luck.
Bidhan Acharya wrote:
The poetry.com sent me a letter dated July 31 and signed by Howard Ely, the Managing Editor. They informed me that one of my poems (The Clouds) was selected for publising and recording in CD. Indeed, I had sent this via email... after looking at a tantalizing ad.. The letter is alluring, but they have also asked me to submit $59.00 (indeed $79.00... but with $20.00 discounts). I am in Nepal and $59.00 is almost my 20 day's salary. I can not afford. Instead I know that publishing organisations do pay the royalty. This one is asking me to pay..... owh.... is it the way the publishers treat with poets...? Thank's god... my friend Danielle made me aware of such..... cheatings...
Name Withheld by Request:
I submitted a poem to their site, was excited at being told it was going to be published in a book. Then, had to pay for a copy of the book for myself. Then was sent a copy of my poem on a plaque that I was also billed for that item. Then I was told I could PAY to go to a writers conferance where I may win an award for my poem. Also was told they\'d like to use my book in another publication and could PAY them to include it. In short, I was foolish, hopeful and ripped off. THEN, I decided to forget that site existed and pretend I wasn't so stupid.
- 08/08/01:
Rick Graves wrote in:
My name is Rick, I started writing poetry to help me deal with the pain of my multihandicapped daughter, A friend told me to send some of them to poetry.com, I sent them one and they wanted to publish it, I was so excited that i sent another,the same responce so I sent the third one to them. I received letters telling me how good they were, When all was said and done, I had sent 3 poems and they were to publish them in 3 books, I sent my 50 dollars to get us a copy. Our book never came.we have contacted them after 8 months of waiting,they told us that they had a publisist oversight and none of my work was published, We have not recived our book, our money,our the recognition that they promised. I will never send then another thing I do. Thanks for your time
JD Brown wrote in:
Back about 4 years ago, before email and web sites became really popular, my wife saw this huge ad in the papers to enter this poetry competition. I reluctantly did and was told that I had won. However, I need to pay X amount in order to see my poem in print in the upcoming issue.
We thought about it and smelt a fish. We decided that we don\'t need to see it so badly. It doesn't take a brain scientist to figure out that for a book that thick and to collect $30 or whatever it was for each poetry published, these people are really selling back to you, books that you helped published - and making a fortune for the swindlers.
Think of all those people who've been had and those who will be because this company is still doing it after all these years.
All we can hope for is that this company gets what it deserves.
- 07/27/01:
Kim Hartley wrote in:
As editor of a weekly newspaper I receive regular faxes from a variety of "poetry contests" some have been from Poetry.com but there are several others as well. I never publish these "calls for poems" because the risk of fraud is so high. Often these companies will use a literary sounding name as the contact person, vaguely familiar sounding. Beware the contests listed in local papers, there are a lot of scams around.
We have received dozens of complaints about this firm. They make it
look like a big honor to "win"...and then you have to pay for the
book your poem appears in. Then they send additional offers to try
to get you to buy other things with your poem on it. One of our readers
sent in a fake poem of jibberish to them and was accepted.
We received so many complaints about Poetry.com that we forwarded info. directly to the Maryland State Attorney General. They wrote right back to us and asked all individuals who have complaints about this firm to contact them directly here:
Tara B. Letwinsky
Mediation Supervisor, Consumer Protection Division
Office of the Maryland Attorney General
200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone (410) 576-6304
Fax (410) 576-7040
Also, Joy Bryant is collecting names of those who have complaints against poetry.com for a possible class-action lawsuit against that firm. She has retained an attorney and they are currently building a list of poets who have complaints. Please contact Joy ASAP via email at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Response WritersWeekly received to its inquires into the matter:
No response to our inquiries.
Excerpts of correspondence submitted by writer(s) filing report:
C. Lloyd:
You mentioned in today's article (March 28/01) that some poetry places are scams. A friend of mine was invited to enter one of his poems {to Poetry.com}. You can imagine his feelings when he discovered that he was limited to 33 characters per line and only 20 lines. Instead of writing them a poem, he explained (in the space provided for the poem) that he wasn't going to bother wasting the time or the effort to enter a poem if they weren't going to at least let him have a decent line length.
The response? They told him that his poem had been accepted for publication.
Angela.... I had just read your email on various complaints/scams, clicked on one of the links and found this huge list of complaints about the Poetry.com people. The information sounded oh so familiar! I went to the Poetry.com website just now to find out if my poem that I posted was there. EEEEEK!!!! I found another one of my poems listed, with the wrong title.....and.... its listed for print in the same book. I NEVER Authorized that one to be printed!!!!! I never even had received a letter telling me that they approved it. I never sent them any money, because after the first letter I figured out that they were after money. I still thought it would be cool to have the book in print. When I received the 2nd letter telling me that I could participate in their Poetry Laurete program for only $149. bucks I was really thinking that this was a money maker for someone. HA! Obviously not me! Yesterday when I received yet another letter telling me that they wanted my permission to put my poem on audio/cd and if I would pay them $30 bucks they could mount my poem on a plaque I thought this is rediculous. NOW... my big problem is.... How the heck do I get my poems off their website? How do I retract my permission to print one poem, and nail their asses for taking my other one? Okay yeah, I feel slightly stupid here, but good grief.....if someone as intelligent as me can fall for this crap, what happens to the little guy who doesn't know any better? On one of the links that I followed from your complaint section of your newsletter mentioned a class action suit agaisnt ISP/Poetry.com. I did email the gal telling her that I would sign the petition. Doesn't this stuff just blow your mind? There has got to be a way to stop these freaks from preying on innocent people. Anna Marie: Hello Angela; I just want to add my two cents to others who have complained about www.poetry.com Yes, it appeared to me too, to be a website generating a lot of exposure for the individual poet, and for me (at first), it was. Then a year or so went by (in which I received tons of junk mail and money requests from them, which I ignored), and they began publishing poems on my page, written by someone who happened to have the same name as me (almost). I emailed them, snail mailed them, called them (forget it, no one answers!), and snail mailed them a second time, requesting they remove those poems from my page. No such luck. I will wager that the one who really wrote them is even more sore than I am! And has just as much luck getting through to them. Please warn your newsletter subscribers that this is a lifetime "hook" and they will have absolutely no access as regards communication with this Mr. Howard Ely, or his staff at poetry.com I have sent no more poems in (for nearly a year now), and when folks ask me where they should send theirs, I tell them: www.poetry.con Keep up the great work on this warning web page of yours, Angela, and thanks for letting us spout. Jason: I have entered seven poems on there site.I was sure to win. But no I didn't. I checked the previous winner he only had one poem entered that was worst than mine. Well anyway, they sent me back letters saying I was invited to Washington DC, and were charging over 500 dollars. I was excited, but I had no money. I thought I would be sure to win one of the monthly contests so I could go. It never happend. So I was reading your site on this fraud, and when I tried to remove my poems they wanted me to call a long distance number. Like thats going to happen. I chang the first poem I entered to just abunch of q's and 1's. Then I tried to enter a short poem called fakers about how they are frauds and it wouldn't go through. So I am going to send a letter to them saying I want my money for that book I ordered that hasn't even came for like two months already. Now if we get a chance to act on this I want more than my 50 dollars back. I will be writting again to them if the first letter didn't help, and this time it will be from a lawyer.
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Ashlee Davis, 18, has taken over the reins of Eco Clothing Agency in Ferensway, which sells everything from top-end designer labels and accessories to vintage and high street clothes.
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In order to acquire the business and the stock, Ashlee didn't turn to the banks or her family's savings.
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"I've known from a young age that I wanted to run my own business.
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Before opening the shop, Ashlee was working at a care home, studying towards an NVQ in health and social care.
However, she has long been honing a working knowledge of fashion.
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David Moon: Apple and Radio Shack a dream merger
By now you've read or heard of Radio Shack's $633 billion takeover offer for Apple — an offer the Apple board appears eager to accept now that Steve Jobs is no longer an obstacle.
Apparently Jobs long wanted to maintain the company's independence and never saw the wisdom in combining these two consumer electronics giants, and thus addressing a weakness that Jobs could never adequately meet as a stand-alone company.
The iPad and iPhone 4 are hot today, but they won't be forever. Do you recall Apple's QuickTake camera or MessagePad PDA? That is the future of the iPad.
But people have been shopping at Radio Shack for 91 years. That is stability. That is staying power. The Apple Lisa was a fad. People will always need weird speaker connectors or batteries.
That's what new Apple CEO Tim Cook understood when he agreed to sell out for $672 per share in cash, plus a share of Radio Shack stock, valuing the deal at almost $679 per Apple share.
Apple only has about 360 stores, usually so crowded that shoppers won't go near them. Radio Shack, however, has more than 7,000 outlets, many of which are located in easy-to-access shopping strips, with plentiful, convenient parking. And the beauty of Radio Shack's business model is that most of its retail floor space is virtually unused.
Analysts expect Radio Shack to slightly adapt it's recently adopted street cred moniker, The Shack, in favor of iShack, to better describe its new focus on all things Apple. Floor space currently dedicated to walkie-talkies and third-tier cellphones will become a vast showroom of Apple products. The area that warehouses the dust-gathering television inventory is expected to yield to an in-store iTunes and iPad app shop.
Programmers are likely already working on apps that will control iShack wireless vehicles, soon to be run via Bluetooth technology.
Apparently the boards of the two companies discussed Radio Shack's acquisition as recently as last spring, but Jobs was adamantly opposed to it. Jobs, a native of Northern California and Silicon Valley, always considered Radio Shack too "blue collar" for his high-tech tastes.
Cook, however, is from South Alabama and was always a fan of the Radio Shack culture, having been one of the original members of the Battery of the Month Club during his college days at Auburn. After college, Cook ended up at Intelligent Electronics, after failing to land a position in the manager's training program at what was then known as Tandy Radio Shack.
In what now was clearly an orchestrated capital maneuver, on March 19 Apple announced it would begin paying dividends. This long-awaited move makes perfect sense, as it will help shore up its new owner's balance sheet.
Apple devotees may question the decision to sell out to Radio Shack, currently trading for $6.48 per share. Don't be so quick to negatively judge the transaction. Skeptics similarly questioned Time Warner's decision to sell to AOL in 2000 — and look how that turned out.
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Merzbow, or Masami Akita, is a former musician who grew tired of his drums and decided to try something new, such as "tapping the floor or rattling the chairs." His form of audio poetry is compared to Dadaism and Surrealism because Merzbow has a continually changing fascination with new objects and juxtaposed sounds. Having collaborated recently with Hungarian drummer Balazs Pandi and Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, Merzbow has a new production:
An orgy of atonality and the unexpected, issuing label RareNoise has described this project as the 'sound of shock and awe' and a 'sonic assault of epic proportions'
Merzbow makes "sound art spaces" in which sounds meet each other and create something he feels is unique and beautiful. Having studied art, he creates at times ambient music, or sounds that create atmosphere and tone. He has also been known to introduce into his synthesized sounds, rhythm and melody to a certain degree. Interestingly, some of Merzbow's creative noise efforts have been used as backdrops for films.
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Hey everyone, I wanted to inform you that the Reagan County Friends of NRA is having our4th annual Friends of NRA banquet on Saturday July 16. I invite anyone from West Texas or anyone that will be in West Texas to come join us.
Here is a link to buy tickets https://www.friendsofnra.org/EventDocs.aspx?eid=6428
For those of you that may not know, the Friends of NRA, is not tied to the political end of the NRA, we raise funds for shooting sports, law enforcement training and firearms safety. We turn around and award grants each year to the area organizations that request help with their shooting sports, training and safety programs.
Anyone that is interested in helping but will not be able to attend, we are having a pre-event raffle for a custom made Sagebrush Safes gun safe that will include 2 rifles to be given away at the banquet. You do not have to be present to win.
Thanks for you help.
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Hi there, thank you so much for this - I printed it out and sat in front of my tv and it worked like a charm!
Was wondering if I could possibly ask you a few questions:
Under 6b - I put my settings on Error 002 fix although I never got any pirate message. (not sure why I chose this at the time but for whatever reason that is what it's been on and all seems to work fine as far as I can tell. BUT, I'm wondering if maybe I should change this? Here's my reason for asking - I've got PAL, RF and NTSC games and so far as I can tell there isn't a pattern to this (whether it's just PAL games or NTSC, etc) but some games just make my remote dead and the screen goes black and I'm forced to power down the Wii. (none of these games are on the alt dol list-mostly kids games) Would you say it's most likely this is happening because some of those games may already have that fix built in and on those specific games I should try to use Anti002fix? Or might it be something else? (I am on 4.2U upgrade by Nintendo in case you need to know that). Maybe I should change this setting altogether to "NO"?
If I may ask another? About the themes - I chose two and downloaded them and got this error on both:
"failed to extract - unsupported format. Try to extract manually."
So I extracted them manually and stuck them in the folder where the RAR file was (sd://config/themes). Is that right and how do I chose it now in the USB Loader because I basically have to just "select it" rather than download it, right?
(BTW- I have to make a disclaimer-I'm a total noob at the Wii but am pretty techy but think I've done pretty well in the past week for someone who never played the Wii before and just decided one day to softmod it and start playing BUT if you are thinking "well, she obviously must have done this", don't (!) because I very well may not have. I followed Messie's 4.2 guide and then got all confused about the BootMii as IOS and the NAND part and sort of don't remember what I did from there - I don't even know if I installed the IOS202, 222, 223 as stated in the directions because I was starting to panic and get heart palpitations at that point. Amazingly enough, since then I have USB Loader GX as a forwarder and am playing everything off of that and so far my kids think I'm a big winner (until we start a game and the screen goes black and we have to start over - that's a bummer).
Another weird thing is that I'm getting an "IMET Header Wrong" error when I scroll through the games using the L/R arrows (when that disc is spinning in the middle of the screen and you can make it spin faster) but only some games. Again, no pattern on this - Cosmic Family, Lego Batman, Dewey's Adventure (NTSC-U), Where The Wild Things Are and Ninja Captains (PAL). I googled that error and I got some code on google that I couldn't really understand. Any ideas?
Thank you for getting to the end of this message!! Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. My OCD is taking over and this is driving me crazy.
OOH OOH OOH, one last thing please! I never put a preloader on. I would like to do what you do for your kids and when they hit the home key they go back to USB Loader Menu. If I install a preloader now so I can do that, is that ok? Will I screw up what I've done so far with the loader?
Thank you again!!!
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MOUNT PLEASANT - The Wando boys basketball team advanced to the Class AAAA Lower State championship with a 70-64 victory over Dutch Fork on Tuesday night.
The Warriors will play Sumter at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Florence Civic Center. The Gamecocks advanced with a 45-37 victory over Goose Creek. Goose Creek's bid for a second straight appearance in the Class AAAA state title game came to an end.
Wando is 23-4 on the season. Dutch Fork checked out with a 19-8 mark.
Jamez Rogers led the winner with 27 points and Matthew Pegram added 17.
Jordan Davis led Dutch Fork with 19, Christian Mills tallied 11 and Deoin Fraiser 10.
Wando jumped to a 21-14 lead at the end of one quarter and 34-31 at halftime. The visitors cut the margin 51-50 after three quarters but Wando outscored Dutch Fork 19-14 in the final eight minutes.
Dutch Fork (64): Jordan Davis 19, Christian Mills 11, Deoin Fraiser 10, Harris 8, Williams 5, Thomas 4, Poole 4, Vincent 3.
Wando (70): Jamez Rogers 27, Matthew Pegram 17, Glover 7, Moore 7, Majewski 5, Delongchamps 5, Behrens 2.
Dutch Fork 14 17 19 14-64
Wando 21 13 17 19-70
Records: DF 19-8; W 23-4
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The University of Massachusetts-Amherst appointed Julie Buehler as vice chancellor of information services and strategy and chief information officer (CIO). Prior to this appointment, Buehler held several executive-level positions with the University of Rochester, including most recently, deputy CIO.
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The American K12 school system is in a state of crisis. When compared to other industrialized nations, our children average lower in language skills, mathematics, and science in a world market that has become dependent on those skills. Cash-strapped schools are unable to hire enough qualified instructors to provide traditional public education. MOOCs can help turn this Titanic around.
Project-based learning school Muskingum Valley New Tech Academy, part of Zanesville (Ohio) High School, will open up to grades seven and eight for the next school year after being open only to grades nine to 11 this past year.
The River Valley School District (Three Oaks, Mich.) has received $1.1 million, the largest grant ever awarded by local investment group The Pokagon Fund. The money will be used to improve security and enhance technology at the district's three buildings.
The New Albany-Plain school board will spend $347,000 to upgrade technology for K8 classrooms, replacing equipment that is eight to 10 years old. Among other initiatives, the new equipment will help facilitate 10 blended learning courses the school offers.
Charlottesville and Albemarle public schools, both in Charlottesville, Va., are ramping up investments in online courses, partly in response to a new state mandate requiring at least one online course for graduation. The district administrators also believe it's the best way to prepare students for the challenges of college and careers.
For the past 10 years, New York University's Polytechnic Institute has run a competition called Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW). Students compete to find flaws in various websites' security measures, and exploit them to gain access to the sensitive information stored within. The National Security Agency and other government agencies have been known to recruit talent from among the competitors.
With the many professional educational technology resources available to the K12 community today, it's imperative that we transition from episodic and ineffective models to an interactive environment that is digitally-based and connected 24/7.
Kim Knott, superintendent of Clarksville (Ind.) Community Schools, is hoping to have an answer soon from the board on whether they can move forward with the project-based and problem-focused high school learning model.
Administrators, teachers and other steering committee and board of ed members say the district has successfully increased the percentage of students reading at or above grade level and helped close achievement gaps in math scores on state standardized tests. However, looking toward the next five years, they feel a rising dropout rate and increasing demand for tech skills will require more digital learning and customized student programs.
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