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Nearpod my library10/24/2022 ![]() ![]() Working virtually in small groups gives students an “authentic audience,” says Oregon library and instructional technology teacher Colette Cassinelli. To do so, innovative librarians are experimenting with practices including applying online grouping strategies to live environments, staying flexible with “camera on” policies, and hosting virtual field trips and social events to keep students connected. This academic year, reaching students has been a top concern. “I would be honest and say that I think we’re really struggling with this.” ![]() NEARPOD MY LIBRARY HOW TO“I think all teachers are really experiencing challenges with how to meet the needs of various learners,” says Todd Burleson, fifth and sixth grade librarian at the Skokie School in Winnetka, IL, and 2016 SLJ School Librarian of the Year. What tech and teaching methods best keep students engaged and on track? Regardless of how school is being conducted, librarians have been striving to innovate in order to reach all students. Teaching in libraries and classrooms looks different, whether educators are talking to a grid of students’ faces on-screen or a half-filled classroom with students sitting behind Plexiglas barriers, six feet apart. What’s the Zoom breakout room balance? Are student cameras on? How many questions are in the chat? Such now-routine questions illustrate education’s rapid-fire transformation since the pandemic started. Screen images via (from left): Amanda Jones Nearpod Desmos K.C. ![]()
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G force hamsters names10/24/2022 ![]() ![]() Whether you want a cutesy food name for your fuzzball or an ironic name that plays on their cute size, our list is stuffed full of ideas that you’ll fall in love with and get inspired by. Zorro: For a hamster that’s an escape artist (and a master of mazes).įinding the Right Moniker for Your Fluffball.Xena: After Xena: Warrior Princess, a fitting name for a feisty furball.Rhino: After the adorably fierce hamster from the film.Leia: After Princess Leia, from Star Wars.Hulk: Marvel’s anti-hero, renowned for his destructive nature and dual personality – a perfect name if your fluffball loves cuddles but also loves “blessing” your clothes with bite-sized holes.Hercules: After the legendary Greek hero, known for his impressive feats of strength.Harley: Short for Harley Quinn, the supervillainess.Hamsters teeth never stop growing, so don’t forget to buy chew toys to help them wear down their teeth! Chomps: Hilarious name for a food-loving hamster.Bullet: For a hamster that can’t resist good ol’ zoomies.Not your typical go-to hamster name, but it fits perfectly once you consider wild hamsters fave place to snooze: underground in burrows. Batman: After the DC Comics vigilante.While these names are technically not “cute” in their own right, once paired with your fuzzball we guarantee it’ll make your heart swoon there’s nothing cuter (and more hilarious) than a hamster called “Chomps” nibbling away or “Xena” fiercely attacking a toy carrot!Īs a side note, if you’re looking for a particularly hilarious hamster name, make sure to check out our dedicated funny hamster names list. These names are fierce, powerful, and badass – a stark contrast to your hamster’s looks. Tinker Bell: The tiny fairy in Peter Pan.Thumbelina: After the fairy tale, Thumbelina is a thumb-sized girl.Thimble: A small thumb protector an apt name if your hamster tends to be protective over their things.Rian: Meaning little king, little royal.Marcel: Meaning little warrior – perfect name for a small but mighty hamster.Gizmo: After the adorable, small Mogwai in.Dora: After Dora the (little) explorer.While we’re on the topic, here’s a fun fact for you: the smallest hamster species in the world is the Roborovski hamster, averaging a length of just 2 inches! Every name here denotes “small” in some way or another. Next up, we’ll be looking at names that are as teeny as your furry friend. Yukiko: Meaning “snow child” in Japanese.Plus, hamsters love the nightlife (they’re nocturnal, after all!). Twilight: Fitting name for a dark-hued hamster. ![]()
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More power to him, I say, because despite the budgetary inflation, at heart he hasn't changed at all: Miike continues to put the same spin on family-friendly fare that he used to apply to cookie-cutter yakuza scripts. Takashi Miike too has moved on, going from marginal to mainstream and to a succession of hit films. Today it takes quite a search to even find the once prominent 'New Yakuza' section at one's local Tsutaya. If DVD - which caught on with some delay in Japan because of the well-developed laserdisc scene - provided a brief boost that led to more ambitious productions like the Dead or Alive series, competition from other media such as video games and cell phones, and an overall lack of creative marketing on the part of distributors (see our interview with veteran V-cinema producer Yoshinori Chiba for a background on the demise) led to waning audiences, plummeting budgets and diminishing quality. At the start of the new millennium, the video market that was the foundation of this particular brand of filmmaking began to wane. ![]() There simply is hardly any room in the Japanese film business today for the kind of low-to-medium-budget genre quickies that reversed its fortunes in the previous decade. ![]() It is not Takashi Miike that has changed, but the industry around him. To wish for Miike to go back to cranking out Dead or Alives and Auditions on a bi-monthly basis is like wishing for tomatoes to still taste the way they did before your country joined the European Union - that era, I'm afraid, has passed. It forms the first step in a process that can only lead to the just recognition of that decade as ranking among the most fertile and fascinating in the history of Japanese film. And had any director come out of the gate with the bizarre mixture of period fetish torture, extravagant ero-guro stylistics, and sock-puppetry that was Imprint, he would have been hailed the reincarnation of Teruo Ishii and spawned an instant worldwide cult.īut this nostalgia for the genre gems that Miike and so many of his compatriots churned out during the 1990s is a good thing. If Ichi the Killer seems increasingly distant and Audition but a fading memory, a glance at Miike's filmography will set the balance straight: Big Bang Love, Juvenile A was a work of perverse art made on a V-cinema budget Izo was a slaughterfest that dared massacre even its own audience Sukiyaki Western Django was more retro-genrefied than any grindhouse redux. Hirameki pazuru makkusuueru no fushigina nohto movie#Zebraman, The Great Yokai War, that TV series about a kid detective and his transforming cell phone - Miike seems to be aiming more for the family matinee crowd than the midnight movie maniacs these days. He who at the dawn of the millennium captured hearts and minds, and turned a few stomachs along the way, with low-budget yakuza and horror pics has these days, say some, answered the lure of big-budget-blockbusterism and neglected his original fanbase. ![]()
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Windows media player 9 no sound10/24/2022 ![]()
Unfortunately many of these players do not include support for closed captions, but a few do. Tools are readily available for developing in these environments, and as a result many developers have created custom video players or "skins". Many media players today are embedded into web pages, and are most commonly developed for Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-ins. ![]() Media players vary in their support for closed captions and audio description, as well as in the steps users must follow to turn these features on when they are available. If important information in a video is presented visually but is not obvious through the program's audio, this information must be described by a narrator and made available in a separate track for individuals who need it. Closed captions, however, are contained with a separate text track and can typically be toggle on or off as needed.Īudio description is a technique for making video accessible to individuals who are blind. Open captions are part of the video and can not be turned off. If you need any more information, please let me know.Captions provide equivalent text for individuals who are unable to hear the audio portion of a video presentation. SOLTEK SL-K8AN2E-GR Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb ATX AMDįAN COOLINGFAN MASSCOOL (I have 2 of these) If anyone can provide any kind of suggestions, it would help me out a lot. Windows media player 9 no sound serial#I ordered a "Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive" from Newegg and it should arrive sometime next week. My next idea was to replace the hard drive. I recently built a new computer and I received most of my components from which provides real good equipment. Then I completely reformatted my computer and just installed the video card and tried playing a video. After instalilng, problem still occurred. Then I thought that there may be a slight chance that my second video card was faulty so I got it replaced a third time. I played around with my computer and disconnected every non-essential hardware, but my computer still produced the same problem. After installing, problem still occurred. I thought there may be a chance that I received a faulty one, so I returned it and got a second one. After installing, the problem still occurred. Windows media player 9 no sound drivers#I have the latest drivers installed for my video card and windows media player.Īt first, I thought it was my video card, so I got a new one. The weird thing is that my computer will run perfectly if I don't try to play a video or movie. After about twenty seconds, my computer will restart itself. Whenever I play any kind of video (media player or quicktime), my computer will freeze up and the mouse will scroll very slowly. Windows Media Player Crashes Computer part deux Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-115 (16x/40x DVD-ROM) IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controllerĭisk Drive WDC WD1200BB-00GUA0 (111 GB, IDE)ĭisk Drive Maxtor 6E040L0 (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133) Monitor ViewSonic 15GA-2 (73139032)Īudio Adapter C-Media CMI8738/C3DX Audio Device Video Adapter NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 (32 MB) Motherboard Name Asus TUV4X (6 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 1 AMR, 4 DIMM) Motherboard Chipset VIA VT82C694T Apollo Pro133T Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 ProfessionalĬommunication Port Communications Port (COM1)Ĭommunication Port Communications Port (COM2)Ĭommunication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)ĬPU Type Intel Pentium IIIE, 866 MHz (6.5 x 133) Is there anyone that can shed some light? The following is my computer specs. I'v come across a few posts in other boards with people having a similar problem so I know its not just me. I downloaded the DivX player and my videos play fine on there but when it comes to streaming videos, the default is WMP. what a joke) but, after giving email address, got no help, just a bunch of spam. I tried getting tech support from Microsoft (ha ha. I have tried to uninstall and re-install WMP but it didnt help. The same thing happens with streaming video. When its the case of computer crash and i have to do a hard re-boot, after booting I sometimes get a blue screen stating "dumping physical memory to disk" and computer re-boots again. When its the case of the video freezing, I can minimize then maximize the player and the video plays a few more seconds then freezes again. When ever i play a video in WMP 9, my computer either crashes (needs a hard re-boot) or after a couple of seconds the video itself freezes and the sound continues. ![]() Windows media player 9 no sound update#I went to Windows update and installed all the updates. ![]() i know) and finally upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional. I previously was using Windows ME (eeeww. I'm glad i stumbled onto this site.Ī but of history. ![]()
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Boundless game permenant portal10/24/2022 ![]() ISS does not have the authority to determine whether a job is on or off campus but rather provides students with the information to understand if a job is on or off-campus. Can ISS help me better understand if my job is considered on-campus? Additionally, you can consult with an immigration attorney on campus through Student Legal Services. If your answers to the questions above left you concerned that your job is not on-campus, please apply for the appropriate off-campus authorization for your visa type. If you answered yes to the questions above, ISS believes your job may be on-campus.
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