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Once the puppet theatre curtain opens, language, reading and comprehension skills converge as meaningful learning takes a front row seat! Puppet theaters promote literacy and a love for learning. From young children building pre-reading skills, to high school students developing higher level cognition, puppet theaters are a stage for hands-on-learning and practical skill application.
Real life application strengthens language cognition and reading comprehension. After receiving my certification as a Reading Specialist, I searched for a program that would help kids learn to speak, read, write and communicate. Then, I realized that I needed something to help my little learners engage, so I brought my first puppet theater into my classroom. I saw a sparks in the eyes of all those children, and I knew this was a way to help children connect what they were learning on a page to real life!
There are many places where children learn. Bedrooms, classrooms, playrooms, day care centers and youth centers are a few of the many places where we expect that learning is taking place. Young learners need adults to consider their literacy needs and create a space where these needs can be nourished. Puppet theaters are an excellent choice for filling any space that hopes to nourish language and reading development for young people. This development is crucial for future learning.
Children who have regular opportunities for dramatic play have a rich environment that stimulates and reinforces language development. Add a puppet theater to any space where children play. Watch kids teach each other how to communicate. Expect an enthusiasm for learning that text books and instructional programs can’t facilitate.
Before you set out to select a puppet stage, there are a few things to consider. Firstly, this is not likely to be a short term investment. You want to purchase a theater and hand puppets that will last. Children love to return to familiar characters and scenes and grow with them. Each rehearsal builds on the last and becomes the impetus for new creativity and learning. Select a puppet theater and puppets that will hold up under regular use.
Don’t be surprised if your favorite little thespian continues their puppet stage performances well into adulthood! Once a child loves literacy and learning, they often want to pass their enthusiasm on to others!
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Written on December 19, 2011 by admin
The cellphone spy program is being promoted by websites on the internet as the bugging device for parents and lovers who want to know what their loved ones are up to. For a small fee, anyone can spy on cell phone text messages, or even record cell phone conversations right from their home computer.
Parents consider cellphone monitoring as a preventive tool to watch over their kids activities, verify their locations, and see who they are hanging around with.
Disheartened lovers who use mobile phone spying defend it as a way to keep tabs on their significant other when they think there may be an affair or, other people involved in their relationship where secrets are being kept from them.
Incredibly, cellphone spying is a legal cellular eavesdropping device with no federal regulations. (at least not yet)
This opens the door to not just family members who want to keep tabs on their loved ones, but also to anyone else who wants to be a mobile phone spy.
Think corporate espionage, or even National Security here.
The internet websites promoting this service have no regulations and to use their programs, all the cellular spy user has to do is log onto their home computer or laptop and type in the phone number of the person they want to spy on.
In seconds they are reading the other persons private text information, or listening in on private conversations.
Another feature of the cellular eavesdropping program is after it’s installed, the user can turn on the phone of any other person and listen in on their live conversations without the other person ever knowing.
One more feature of the cellphone spy service is the GPS program. Once this is installed the user can easily locate the person they are looking for on a map from their computer.
Finding a cell phone spy program is as easy as going online and using any Google web browser to type in the words “CellPhone Spy”.
On the results page they’ll find an assortment of cell phone surveillance, or cellphone tapping ads, which will then lead them to the cellular spy websites where they can choose to purchase programs for reading text, or cellular phone tapping to record or listen in on conversations.
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Written on December 19, 2011 by admin
Law enforcement recently has been following the general tide of government and public service groundswell by seeking computing solutions in the Linux direction. Particularly in law enforcement, their needs match well with open source software. They have to work lean on a taxpayer’s budget, and open source is free or low cost. They need top security, and Linux is still the highest-scoring operating software in official government assessments. They need mission-critical reliability, and Linux is so stable, it doesn’t just outrank the competition in stability – it makes the competition disappear!
Some recent examples of law enforcement agencies finding a solution in open source:
* Kent Police have lowered the cost of running their major criminal investigations system by a factor of 90% using Novell Linux Open Enterprise Server. The migration to Novell enabled Kent to scale up their Holmes II investigation system to work on larger projects with a broader scope – something they’d never been able to do before. They were also able to run it on their cheapest hardware they could find, thanks to Linux’s light requirements. A new policing operating system, named Genesis, is now being tested for scalability on Linux servers.
* Delivery of the first Linux systems to the West Yorkshire police force could see police forces throughout England and Wales unanimously switching to Linux desktops in a new pilot scheme. The deployment is taking place under a contract awarded by the UK Police IT Organization. If successful, it will lead to over 60,000 desktops deployed. In West Yorkshire alone, the installed base is around 3,500, and a spokesman reckoned that the savings from this would be around one million pounds per year!
* The New South Wales Police department is currently undertaking a major upgrade to its information infrastructure, made necessary due to the increasing volume of data handled by the force, and they’re switching to Linux systems to handle the load. Because the Linux systems are proving so reliable, they are looking forward to the higher capacity network more efficiently archiving and transmitting data stored as evidence, such as surveillance videos and audio material.
* Scottish police forces have also developed a Linux-based system for ensuring that they comply with the Freedom of Information Act legislation, an act which is intended to facilitate ‘open government’ by allowing the public to request access to government data. Since open source and open information go hand in hand, the system has scaled easily and saved tons of labor. The force doesn’t have to worry about proprietary media formats interfering with the public’s ability to access the data, and the efficiency of the Linux system allows a lot of manual tasks to be automated where they couldn’t before. The system is literally returning officers to the streets because it has saved everyone so much work.
* Police in the city of Munich have switched 14,000 of their department computers from Microsoft’s Windows operating system to Linux. The motivation for the decision was to make the government less dependent on one information technology supplier, and to save money while increasing capabilities. One technology analyst even compared the break-through migration to the fall of the Berlin wall, referring to the oppressive requirements of dealing with a proprietary software company’s agenda.
That government feels friendly with open source should come as no surprise. Traditionally, the Internet has been 80% Linux and Unix-based systems since its creation. The first Internet services were started and maintained by government providers, who used Unix system’s built-in multitasking features and excellent speed to create a fast, reliable network. Linux, a modern version of that Unix ideal, has already established itself as the leading system for server-room deployment, but now the effects are beginning to trickle down to the desktop user level and workstation deployments, where they are discovering that Linux systems have workspace-ready features built in which other commercial operating systems are just now beginning to discover and implement.
Furthermore, Linux systems come with the guarantee that because they are open source, no commercial company can restrict their usage in the future. A platform ported to Linux can stay on Linux, without support dying out and constant upgrades creating problems down the road.
Finally, the inherent security of the Unix computing model guarantees the effectiveness of Linux without the worries over security problems. Because there are in effect no viruses which can infect a Linux system known, and no critical security exploits found in the systems even by government security standards, departments are also considering Linux as a measure to protect our national data under concerns over national security and the terrorist threat in our modern times.
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