Wintery Wednesday

This week we're having a little break from challenges. They'll start up again next week.

Challenge winners last week were Lyndsay and Shona, whose submissions will be combined for our CAPvertisement. Congratulations!

Here's something kind of fun from a site called Wordle, I put together with the text from our blog.

Basically you just enter your web address, and the site compiles a neat-looking word cloud of the most used words on your site. (And you can remove whichever ones you choose - our biggest word was actually 'like' haha).

Enjoy the rest of your week, and let us know what's going on at your sites!

Keshen Goodman Library

Hi Everyone,

My name is Lyndsay and I've been hired as the C@P Intern at the Keshen Goodman Library in Clayton Park. I'm really excited to be working here.

The Keshen Goodman Library is beautiful. We are equiped with 9 computers and have printing available as well. The libray holds regular computer classes which I will be assisting. On Friday I assisted Ron in a Computer Baiscs Class. It consisted of 7 seniors with a wide range of computer skills. We mostly focused on mouse and keyboarding skills as most needed practice with that.

We offer other programs such as Beyond the Basics, Word processing Basics, Email Basics, Advanced Email, How to navigate the Internet, and Internet Searching Made Easy. These classes are taught by full time staff, but I will be assisting when possible.

Along with assisting computer classes I will offer basic One on One Computer help. Sessions will run an hour and patrons can book a time with me at the Reference Desk. I have also been assigned to develop and create an e-book information session starting in March. It will cover the basics of e-books and give descriptions of e-readers.

Here are some pictures of the C@P Site:

Some photos

Hey all, just wanted to share some photos of this summer's camps!

We had a reptile man in!

I was attacked!

Computer work...

Robotics work!

Hope you enjoyed a look at what we do during the summer months!

Aspotogan Heritage Trust

So many C@P sites in oh-so-pretty places...
Starting next week I'm going to document a little tour of the C@P sites around the Hubbards area. Some of them are in such beautiful, unique places that they are just itching to be blogged about.
I'm thinking that I'll take some pretty pictures of, and do a little write up on the sites in Hubbard's, Blandford and Chester.
Anyhow, check it out next week.
For this week I've enclosed some pictures of the lovely Aspotogan Heritage Trust. It's so beautiful here! It's really an incredible asset to this community and the surrounding area. If you're ever in the neighborhood, be sure to stop in, have a look around and check your email, Facebook, bank account...

Veith House C@p Site!

Hey everyone,
Here' are some pictures of our C@p site over at Veith House. Our computers and equipment are slightly older, but the site has a comfortable, cozy feel to it. It's got character!






















We also have special computers in our site for younger children, as part of our 'preschool mice' program. The preschool kids have had fun using them this week - some even learned how to turn them on and off!

Woodlawn Public Library C@P Site

Since this library is relatively new we have a lot of great stuff here!

These are our main public use computers. In this section are 11 Lenovo All-In-One computers featuring 20” screens, Windows 7, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor @ 2.10Ghz, and 4GB of ram. This section also includes a scanner.

These computers contain a variety of software applications including GIMP Photo Editor, Office 2003, Skype, OverDrive Media, Adobe Digital Editions, Mobipocket Reader, and various teaching and learning software.










































Off to the side of this section is an accessible computer that is defaulted to large font sizes on screen and includes a keyboard that feature larger characters on the keys. This computer also includes a scanner.














The Media Centre has three Sony VAIO All-In-One computers featuring a 24” Touch Screen, and a Blu-Ray player capable of 1080p HD. It launches Windows Media Centre upon Startup in which patrons can view photos, videos, and play movies.














The Teen section contains 10 Lenovo computers. Also in this section are two 20” screens each hooked up to a PS3.

This is where all the action happens

The Spencer House C@P site is located in the back of the Seniors' Centre.

Here we have the bulletin board, a computer, and even a paper shredder

There are 5 of these Dell computers (with laser pointer mice)

And one mac. I am trying to avoid being a mac salesperson, 

but this computer has everything you'll ever need...

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 :)

A glance at Sheet Harbour!

Hey guys,
I don't really have anything to exciting to share about our week here. So instead I decided that I would share some pictures of our community with you. Enjoy!
Have a great weekend!






























Sheet Harbour gets sidewalks!

Beaver Bank Community Centre Fire

Here are a few pictures of the sadly departed Beaver Bank Community Centre, September 2009, courtesy of Dan's Facebook.

The CAP site was behind this wall.

The Main door of the Centre - To the right front is the Volunteer Policing Office I used to also work at. Behind that, on right, was the CAP site
There was a second computer site on the top floor where I taught a lot of one-on-one lessons.
Day after, still smoldering


The night of the fire.

A Whale of a Tale

Now with more whale and less tale! Here are some of the shots I took while we was out on da wahda, watchin' da whales.

The journey begins.

Sound advice.


Leaving Halifax behind us.

I somehow forgot to take a picture of our boat, but we boarded her: the Sea Tiger.

On board.

Chillin' wit' da crew.

Fellow sailors, only with actual sails.

We weren't the only ones touring the harbour that day.

From above deck.

Georges (but not George's) Island.

The crew of HMCS Charlottetown.

With some not in uniform, or maybe a tour?

Amid the vast expanse...

Hark! A seal! Or maybe a piece of trash...

Who can say for sure?

The Harbour Queen, out for a stroll.

Zoooom!

Intrepid whale watchers.

Ah, the bliss of watching whales...

Spotted! It's no white whale, but Ahab would be proud.

"Weeeeeee're Seeeeaaaaaguuuuulllllls!"

ZOOOOOOOM!

Our sister ship.

100% authentic sea life, now playing in a cooler near you!

~Fin~