Thoughts?

This is a short week for us, so a new challenge will be posted next week.
For now, A Yahoo Article that I saw and found very intriguing.

Link



Why Do you think this is?
....I can't help but think that I boost these stats at least 5 full percent !!

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Winter Movie Night

We had our very first winter movie night this year on December 22, and it was a hit we had 6 kids show up to watch the perfect Christmas movie "ELF".

Happy Holidays!

In lieu of a challenge this week, I think you all should revel in the charms of the season! (We will be announcing last week's winner soon!)
Happy Holidays: Enjoy your family, friends and food, and all of the best wishes as we bring in a New Year together!


Created by Dan!

20 Things

Hey there all, I found this really cool website created by Google (who else...), and what it basically is is a book all about the Internet. I know, I know, sounds lame, but have a look. It breaks things down into simple language, and is quite comprehensive!

Lookie...

New Computers!

This weekend I purchased, built, configured and installed 3 brand new computers for our C@P Site. They have dual core, AMD Athlon II X2 255 3.1 GHz processors, 4GB RAM, and all the other goodies. Have a look :)

2010's Most Impressive Internet Gadgets

Check Out ReadWriteWeb's Year-End List.

I need to get one of these things to stick on my runners!

Aspotogan Heritage Trust

Hi guys!
Hope everything's going well for everybody! Here's a link to the site for the C@P program that I'm working on: www.aspotogan.org/capprogram.htm
I'd love to hear your suggestions if you get the chance!
Thanks!

Julie

Challenge 2.2 response - Capturing C@P

Hi Everyone, here's the poster I put up on the bulletin board for the Capturing C@P project. I made a link that was shorter so now it's up on our website too. I went to the site and shared my own story. Now to work on getting other people to share theirs...

Capturing C@P

Here it is, my poster :)

What is Canada?

Well, I have no sweet clue, but Tom Brokaw seems to! I know this is a little bit of a digression, but I thought this was a great video.

Challenge # 2.2: C@pturing C@P

For this challenge, you are asked to create a poster to be used in your C@P site for our ongoing
Public Access Story Share website. And there is a twist! The winning poster will not only be displayed
in YOUR site, but in all participating sites across Nova Scotia!

This week, we are kicking off a new project with NSC@P called "Cognitive Edge." Cognitive Edge is a comprehensive new way to organize feedback from various communities. Check it out here.

C@P will be implementing this data-grabber by way of asking users at sites to fill out a story at the online database, regarding their experience with Public Access. For each entry they submit, they will be entered in a draw for a prize once the story-collection period ends.
To get a better idea of what it's all about, please submit your own story here!

Once we have collected several hundred stories we will be able to analyze the overall picture that has been painted collectively. Pretty cool stuff.



So here is your challenge:

Using all of your creative juices, put together a visually stimulating poster (with graphics, colours,
etc) including the following information:

-TITLE: "C@PTURING C@P"
-SLOGAN: "A new approach to capturing user stories and evaluating data"
-LINK: http://ca.sensemaker-suite.com/Project/collector.html?projectID=NovaScotia_CAP#

*everything below this point students can re-phrase to their own accord*

-CONTACT (FOR INQUIRIES/COMMENTS): Karen Parusel 902-424-1723 & Joanne Gidney
gidneyje@gov.ns.ca

-INFO
-Collecting & Compiling stories regarding Nova Scotian experiences with Public Access
-Mosaic of stories
-Share as many stories as you want
-One entry for prize per every story (ballot boxes at site)
-We encourage/appreciate your participation

Spreading Christmas Cheer

This Friday I decided to update the C@P Site bulletin board and make it a little more "cheerful". Check it out!

Hi, C@P folks!

Isn't this exciting?! What a fabulous opportunity it is to be a part of such a wonderful organization. It's great to be able to help connect people with their local community and global world through the use of computers. There's just so much out there to learn and explore!! Looking forward to this new and interesting experience.

Here's the snapshot view of my bio:
My name is Julie McEachern and I grew up in Waverley Nova Scotia. In 2005 I marched off to Saint Mary's University, happily dabbling in a bit of everything from Historiography to Astronomy...they had so many fascinating courses to choose from. After a few years passed, I headed to South America where I backpacked around and across the continent, working a bit along the way. Upon my return home, I attended the Nova Scotia Agricultural College for a year. Missing Halifax, I moved back into the "big" town and breathed in some slightly more city-like air.
Today I am a student once again at SMU, completing a psyc degree with a side of astronomy in there too. I'm working towards an Industrial and Organizational Psychology degree but who knows what doors will open and years will bring.
I'll be working at the Aspotogan Heritage Trust Centre in Hubbards. Lovely group of people out there!
Looking forward to meeting and working with you all!

Julie

Movie Stars...

Yeah we are!

http://www.youtube.com/user/coleharbourcap?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/mrU8ljEEoME

In the Meantime...

We've currently got 5 interns hired in the Halifax Region! It's a bit of a slow start, but by next week, we should have 3 or 4 more.

In the Summer, we had a weekly 'Challenge' that ran as an overall seasonal competition. (You can check them out under the 'challenges' tab to the right.) At the end of the work term, the student with the most overall 'wins' won a wicked techie prize pack. The challenges went really well, so I think we shall go for it again!
Starting next week, I will be posting a weekly challenge for you all to participate in. While the challenges are optional, I highly recommend you take part. There is little reason not to unless you are extremely, extremely busy during your work hours (in which case we will be expecting a post detailing all of the sweet stories from your site!) Further, the blog garnered a lot of interest in the Summer from the Province, so your work is definitely appreciated!

In the meantime, this week, I'm going to post a few tidbits to check out. They could be very helpful for future challenges... hinthint!

So now: TED Talks. If you haven't visited the TED website before, get comfortable, because once you start watching, it's hard to stop!

This speaker talks about the importance of gaming - very intriguing!



And here we have the future of digital imagery:



And lastly, virtual friends:



Enjoy, and feel free to COMMENT below!