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Marshall Adult Education
ANNOUNCEMENTS
December 2, 2005
MARSHALL ABE
1.
Looking ahead to Christmas Break,
the office will be closed on Friday,
December 23rd and Monday, December
26th. There will be No classes on
December 23rd or 26th. Teachers may use
their discretion whether or not to hold
classes during the rest of the week.
Please advise the office if you will or
will not be having class.
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2. Sunrise
Apt -- We are officially out
of the Sunrise Apartment. If you should
happen to still have a key, please turn
it in to Barb ASAP.
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3.
The December Class Schedule
has been posted on the web site. Click
on this link to see the schedule.
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MARSHALL CONSORTIUM
4. November
Student
Attendance/Intakes &
CASAS scores
should be to the office
by Friday, December
2nd. Remember that it
is very important for
you to stay current with
your CASAS testing --
and turning the
information into the
office.
Our current statistics
indicate that we have
136 participants in our
program for this
programming year.
(Participants
are students that
have attended at
least 12 hours of
class.)
* Of these individuals
11% have shown a level
change......
* Of the 23 individuals
receiving both a pretest
and post test the level
change is at
65%................
Please review your class
lists and if you see
that an individual has
been in your class for
45 hours OR you think
they may be leaving our
program OR you believe
that they would show a
level change.....Please
post test them!
If you need additional
resources in the form of
extra staff or time to
do this.........let me
know....we will make
those resources
available! Thanks, Pat
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5. Tentative Date
for the next consortium
staff meeting:
January 14, 2006.
Since many of you requested
that Marn Frank return so
you could participate in the
Reading Session you were not
able to attend at the last
meeting, we ask Marn if she
would return and she
graciously said yes. Now,
in order to make her trip
worth while, we again need
to know which session you
are interested in
attending. Let Barb know by
December 16th
which session you will
attend. You can signup for
the meeting on-line. Click
on the link below to signup
and read more about the
meeting including what Marn has
sent as descriptions of the
session
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6.
We
are
looking
for
suggestions
for
computer
training
at
the
next
consortium
meeting.
If
you
have
an
idea
or
suggestions
for
the
training
session,
please
email
me.
(If
I
don't
hear
from
anyone,
we
may
be
talking
about
effective
debugging
techniques
for
algorithmic
thinking,
data
structures,
and
data
transformation).
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7. Staff Reviews
from Pat: I will
begin setting up visits with
each staff in the Marshall
Region in December to do a
Performance Self
Review. At this
time we will also review the
Student Level Change data
for students you have served
since May 1st. Again I
would encourage you to
consider your student's
progress and post test them
if you feel they can
demonstrate a level change.
You can find the Performance
Self Review with the link
below. You can fill the
form out on-line or email
it.
http://www.marshalladulteducation.org/self_evaluation.htm
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SOUTHWEST
ABE
8. On Friday, December
9 in Redwood Falls,
there is a volunteer training
and networking event sponsored
by the Minnesota Association for
Volunteer Administrators (MAVA).
Click on the link below to read
the details about this session.
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9.
The Literacy Minnesota
website has many neat resources
on it. One place you might
want to look at is the Best
Practices they have posted there
at:
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10. There is a new
PowerPoint Presentation called A
Unique Partnership: The MN Workforce Center System
and Adult Basic Education posted on the ABE
Website. You can view it with Microsoft PowerPoint
or you can view the slides without using
PowerPoint. Click on the link below to go to the
presentation.
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GENERAL 11. From Lois Schmidt: Greetings Nonprofit & Community Organizations;
On behalf of my
colleagues at Bremer, I extend a
special invitation to you and your staff to join us
on December 7th for our Client Appreciation Event.
We're holding this in conjunction with the
Chamber's December Business After Hours at
our Bremer Bank location in
Bremer Along with
the Marshall Chamber of Commerce Business After
Hours Cordially Invites You To Attend Our
Client Appreciation
Event, Wednesday, December 7, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., -----------------------------------------------------
12. The non-confidential
job postings that Job Service shares with
us are posted on the ABE Website each week. Check
them out here.
http://www.marshalladulteducation.org/job_listings.htm ----------------------------------------------------- 13. From the Trivia Department: Here is a remarkable weather site by an amateur weatherman who lives in Tracy, Minnesota. Kevin Haney's real job is with Schwans, but he has a passion for weather. Check out this site - especially the 24 hour Current Webcam Image - very cool! ----------------------------------------------------- 14. Thought for the week: If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life." ~Plato ----------------------------------------------------- 15. TECH TIP: Microsoft Word Page Views
There are 4 page views to choose from in Microsoft Word:
Click on View in the menu bar to select each view. Try each of the views and read below what they are used for.
Normal view is a good view if you just want to type a lot of pages text. It does not show the page margins like Print Layout view. When I have 5 pages of text to type, I use Normal view.
Web Layout view only is used if you are creating a web page. A cool thing you can do is use this page view to prepare your document. Then choose "Save as Web Page." The document will now open using Internet Explorer instead of Microsoft Word. You can send it to people and not have to worry whether or not they have Word on their computer. (Everyone has Internet Explorer).
Print Layout view can actually show the left and right margins of the page as well as the top and bottom margins of the page. A note about Print Layout view: You will want to have the text boundaries showing if you use this view (they may already be showing). Follow these steps to show the text boundaries: Click on Tools in the menu bar, then select Options. Click on the Views tab and then click on Text Boundaries (place a checkmark (P) in the box) This is my favorite view because it shows me how the document will look when it is printed.
Outline view is only used if you are making an outline. If you really want to learn how to use this neat feature of Word, do a Google search for "Word outline view." You'll find many resources to help you.
USING THE MOUSE TO SELECT THE VIEW You can also choose which view you want to use by clicking on the views buttons. They are located in the lower left hand corner of the screen, to the left of the horizontal scroll bar.
Place the cursor over each without clicking to see the name of each view button. Click on the one that you want to use. ----------------------------------------------------- Marshall ABE Links
Marshall ABE Bookmarks - tons of
cool bookmarks - educational and non-educational
http://ikeepbookmarks.com/marshallabe
Tech Tips - Read new and old Tech Tips here. http://www.marshalladulteducation.org/techtips.htm
Reading Skills for Today's Adults - new stories posted regularly http://www.marshalladulteducation.org/reading_skills.htm
Announcements - Weekly announcements are posted here each week on Friday.
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