Welcome to WebMediaBrands Segal AmeriCorps Education Award The Segal AmeriCorps Education Award is a post-service benefit received by participants who complete a term of national service in an approved AmeriCorps program--AmeriCorps VISTA, AmeriCorps NCCC, or AmeriCorps State and National. The award is named after Eli Segal, one of the pioneers of the national service movement and the first CEO of the federal Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). An AmeriCorps member serving in a full-time term of national service is required to complete the service within 12 months. Upon successful completion of the service, members are eligible to receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award. The education award may be used to pay educational costs at eligible post-secondary educational institutions (including many technical schools and GI-Bill approved educational programs), as well as to repay qualified student loans. The dollar amount of a full-time award is tied to the the maximum amount of the U.S. Information for Members:
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The American Society For Microbiology ISO50 - The Blog of Scott Hansen What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power A key to understanding why School is what it is lies in recognizing a systematic tendency to deform ideas in specific ways in order to make them fit into a pedagogical framework. One of these deformations is described here as “disempowering ideas.” The insight leads to a new direction for innovation in education: re-empowering the disempowered ideas. Doing so is not easy: it needs a new epistemology with a focus on power as a property of ideas and a challenge to the School culture. On the positive side, the insight also leads to a new vision of what technology can offer education. Note: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated is distributing this Article with permission of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) who is the exclusive owner. Published in: IBM Systems Journal (Volume:39 , Issue: 3.4 ) Date of Publication: Page(s): Digital Object Identifier : 10.1147/sj.393.0720 Date of Current Version : 06 April 2010 Issue Date : Sponsored by :
Josh Talks Flash Teach Your Own (Delacorte, 1981, by John Holt. Revised and updated by Patrick Farenga, Perseus 2003) Selection by John Holt: ...I have used the words "homeschooling" to describe the process by which children grow and learn in the world without going, or going very much, to schools, because those words are familiar and quickly understood. Common Objections to Homeschooling, Chapter 3 from Teach Your Own, is available to read for free here. Easy to Use CMS for Designers How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Mask By Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions: Photoshop Actions and Training There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this post I am going to focus on one way to pop colors using “Channel Mixer” adjustment layers. To start with, locate an image that could benefit from more vibrant color, overall or in selected spots. Of course, you likely will want to correct exposure and white balance prior to working on color. Once you pull up the adjustment layer, you will adjust settings in the dialog box. For example, if you start with red, and put red at 150%, then you would split the difference to = 100%. Remember, all three outputs need to be treated the same. When you saturate color, make sure you are not losing details and that your colors are printable. With masking, you have 2 choices. For this tutorial, I am going explain, hiding the effect and painting it on where desired. So after getting your channel numbers set, you will invert your mask.