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Category Archives: Observations
Find a good office software package and don’t spend an arm and a leg doing it.
Have you ever needed to finish an assignment, but you couldn’t make it to the computer lab and you didn’t have office software to finish the assignment? And Microsoft Works just won’t because your instructor doesn’t have it. There are… Continue reading
Remembering the Release of Nelson Mandela
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela. After 27 years of imprisonment he helped negotiate a peaceful transition to majority rule in South Africa, something no one thought was possible. Check out the BBC News slide… Continue reading
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Mont Alto forestry students use web publishing software
Examples of Student Blog Entries from Fall 2009 for the Advisory Board MeetingRemembrance of Earl Cooley by Doug Boyer. Combines research, references, Google map, Google Docs presentation, and images.Managing Forests for Wild Turkeys by Nate Rosenberg. Uses embedded Google Docs… Continue reading
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Forest Technology Curriculum Update Proposals
Proposed Curriculum Changes to A.S. Forest Technology (2 FORT) Current Proposed FORT 120 Forestry Computer Applications. 2 credits. Fall year 1. FORT 120 Forestry Computer Applications 3 credits. Fall year 2. FORT 130 Forest Mapping Systems 2 credits. Fall… Continue reading
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Graduation 2009
Yesterday was graduation, or commencement, at Mont Alto. At our campus almost all the faculty make it a point of attending the ceremony. Usually, a few weeks before the ceremony I resolve that this year I won’t be going, that… Continue reading
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Doing the Blog Thing
Recently a colleague mentioned that faculty in his discipline on our campus were thinking about starting a group blog. He asked me which platform I thought would be the best for the new publication.In reality any platform can work once… Continue reading
Quiz Bowl at the Allegheny SAF Winter Meeting
Penn State Mont Alto forestry students participated in the Quiz Bowl at the Allegheny SAF Winter meeting in State College on February 19. Frank Grano, Eric Monger, and Mark MizakWatching the Quiz BowlDespite a valiant comeback Mont Alto lost to… Continue reading
Safety and Security Update
see more pwn and owned picturesAs we start the spring semester I’m sure we will be hearing many safety messages. All that is great, but we it’s important to keep it all in perspective, of some sort!… Continue reading
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On the Nile
You would almost expect this to be a scene from an Agatha Christie murder. I think I’ve seen at least two versions of Murder on the NileCredits:Digital ID: 88476. 1860s-1920s Source: [Photographs and prints of Egypt and Syria.] (more info)… Continue reading
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A new kind of library search
A few days ago, for reasons that aren’t relevant here, I was interested in finding a book about the Punic Wars (Carthage against Rome with General Hannibal and elephants in the mountains.) Rather than just look at a list in… Continue reading