Volume 1, Issue 8, November 2009

What’s News in the VPLRC?

• The Learning Resources Center Fall hours are:
  o Monday – Thursday 7:30-9:00
  o Friday 7:30-4:30
  o Saturday 8:00-2:00


• November is American Indian Heritage Month, Thanksgiving, and Peace River Center for Writers Celebrate Authors Week is Nov. 2-8, 2009. Visit your Learning Resources Center learn more about this themes.

Did You Know?
“Lifelong Learning Institute, located on the Charlotte Campus, began in 1996 as Learning in Retirement under the auspices of Jack Price, Executive Director of the Charlotte County Foundation, now known as the Charlotte Community Foundation. Some of the initial instructors included Vernon Peeples and Lindsay Williams. Their goal is to foster interest in continuing education among adults, to offer quality classes and programs in a campus atmosphere in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, personal finance and technology as well as providing a variety of educational opportunities outside the classroom , while cooperating with other organizations to support the mission of the program.”
Source: Edison State College – Lifelong Learning Institute, 2009

Focus On…
The website of the month is Freezeray, http://www.freezeray.com/index.html. This website is for the “scientist” in us all. The website offers visually stimulating and imaginative teaching aids that can be used on interactive whiteboards; tips, templates, and teaching guides. Resources are designed to be used as descriptive sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. The website has valuable information relating to physics, chemistry, biology, investigations, scientific literacy, technology, and VnR Modeling.

VPLRC Quotable Quotes…
"Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable." ~Larry Wall (Quoted by Tim O'Reilly in Nature.com article)