[Yr11 Information Technology] OC 1 interesting feature query....

Fri Feb 29 14:06:30 EST 2008

Hi folks.
Just going through the motions of OC1_U1 here with my kiddies...
'Special needs'...I chose the visually impaired as the target here...and my students responded quite well. Just one question, one of my charges sought out a 'narrator' type of tool in the frontpage software but could not find one(it reads the text for you out loud as in adobe). Can anyone tell me if it exists in FrontPage-XP ?  I was impressed that the student chose that he would use that feature should it be available but was unable to, hence, it went in his project report as a feature that could be useful for his site and the target audience. Great idea and terrific initiative on behalf of the kid I reckon!

Any ideas on this one IT'ers..?

Kent.

Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au

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From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Meadows, Roslyn M
Sent: Fri 2/29/2008 11:28 AM
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Subject: RE: [Yr11 Information Technology] Can you still see the stars?

Roland - perhaps your students could compare the stars seen during Earth Hour 2008 (8pm March 29th) and then compare them 24 hours later

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mxu3MluKl8A

www.earthhour.org <http://www.earthhour.org/>  

Cheers

Ros

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Bentleigh Secondary College 

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From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 6:08 PM
To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List
Subject: [Yr11 Information Technology] Can you still see the stars?

Why not take part in an international effort to map light pollution, and get your students involved! 

Come join my year 9 Research Science (read InfoTech) students for the 2008 GLOBE at Night Campaign from 25 February - 8 March.

2008 marks a monumental shift in human history when more than half the people on Earth are expected to be living in cities. Because of the ambient light of urban landscapes, many city dwellers have never seen a sky full of stars. During 2007 over 8,491 observations reported (my kids contributed about 25 to the GLOBE - NASA database)  Drop me a line off list if you or your students are interested in joining in. Love to swap notes and observations, especially with any teachers in rural areas of Victoria :-)
     http://www.globe.gov/globeatnight/

In case you are wondering what this is about, I mentioned this in VITTA journal "scrapbook" column. Here is a picture we took and image processed with GIMP to enhance the image, identify the red skyline and ugly light pollution from the city of Melbourne, 30 km away. We used Google Earth to determine our Lat Long and geotag the images.

GLOBE at night <http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/433406031/> 

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