Kinder – 1st grade: Summer Packet #3 • Theme: Community

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be. Day 1 • My Buddy • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • The United States of America • Read the story: What is the United States of • America? • Dictionary • Color the Flag of the U.S.A. • U.S.A. Math Day 2 • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • U.S.A. Math #2: Count the symbols. Add or subtract! • Journal: All people are equal, all people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. • Read the story: All People are Equal • Journal Review Day 3 • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • Read the story: Celebrating the United States of America • Dictionary • Skip Counting Day 4 • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • Math Patterns • Read the story: Celebrating with Fireworks • Fireworks! Create your own fireworks show. Day 5 • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • Read to Your Buddy • Connect the Dots • Move Like a Firewor

School Finance Toolkit: How to Create a Community Guide to Your School District's Budget

If your community-based organization would like to launch a school finance initiative in your community, you can use this toolkit as a starting point. The toolkit walks through the major steps organizations have gone through in their own initiatives, offering advice and examples of tools you can adapt for your own use. The toolkit explores the major challenges organizations have faced in this work, and how they have addressed those challenges. And the toolkit points you toward other resources that can help you find and analyze information about school finance. This toolkit is not itself a primer on school finance. Except in passing, it does not explain how school funding works in school districts. You will have to obtain this kind of background information from other resources (some listed in this toolkit) and as you go along.The toolkit contains five major sections:Get Started. This section helps you set a mission for your school finance initiative, organize your people to get the job done, and find the resources to get the job done.Engage the Public. This section discusses strategies for engaging the public up-front, finding out what citizens want to know about school finance -- and why.Crunch the Numbers. This section addresses the nitty-gritty work of creating a community guide to the school budget, offering helpful tips on finding, analyzing, and presenting information effectively.Put the Numbers to Work. This section talks about ways you can use the information you have gathered as a catalyst for community-wide discussions of school finance and its impact on school quality.Resources. This section contains a variety of tools used by community-based organizations in their school finance initiatives, everything from town meeting agendas to focus group questions to budget analysis spreadsheets. This section also contains references to many sources of data about school finance, many of them just a mouse-click or toll-free call away

Automating Society: Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU. BertelsmannStiftung Studies 2019

Imagine you’re looking for a job. The company you are applying to says you can have a much easier application process if you provide them with your username and password for your personal email account. They can then just scan all your emails and develop a personality profile based on the result. No need to waste time filling out a boring questionnaire and, because it’s much harder to manipulate all your past emails than to try to give the ‘correct’ answers to a questionnaire, the results of the email scan will be much more accurate and truthful than any conventional personality profiling. Wouldn’t that be great? Everyone wins—the company looking for new personnel, because they can recruit people on the basis of more accurate profiles, you, because you save time and effort and don’t end up in a job you don’t like, and the company offering the profiling service because they have a cool new business model

Generational Faith: Change and Consistency across Generations

Will your children be just like you? Will their faith look like yours? If so, to what extent? If not, why? The Bible refers to consequences continuing to the third and fourth generations, and blessings for a thousand generations. If that’s true, why has the next generation dropped out of church and lost interest in God? Have the Bible’s promises expired? Maybe the world’s rapid changes have sped up the process, or perhaps this world has simply become too evil for faith to survive. And yet when all hope seems to be gone, young people shoot past their parents in spiritual vitality, commitment, and action. In October 2011 youth and young adult ministry professionals gathered at Andrews University for the 180° Symposium hosted by the Center for Youth Evangelism. Thirteen papers were presented during the symposium, followed by the group forming a think tank to brainstorm on the topic. In this book you will find the results of this work, including: The 13 papers presented at the start of the 180° Symposium The Relationship of Theology and Culture Addressing Second and Third Generational Challenges/Opportunities The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Hand Me Down Religion Moving In (Immigration) Youth and young adult ministry needs to evolve in this era of compressed change. Is your congregation learning how to reach today’s young people? Paperback. 91 pages. Copyright 2012. (From AdventSource)https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/books/1266/thumbnail.jp

Extending Public Accessibility to the Mind: Designing Airports for People with Aphasia

Imagine traveling in an airport in another country. The language is entirely foreign, and all signs are written in text you cannot understand. You have ten minutes to make your connection. How do you find your gate? How do you ask questions? This hypothetical generation of panic is the reality for many travelers every day who suffer from aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder often caused by stroke or other brain injury that makes it difficult to communicate, read, and process numbers, especially in stressful environments like an airport. More than two million people in America suffer from aphasia and have not been effectively served in the public sphere. Since 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has sought to “promote equal opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for Americans with disabilities.” Though America has seen great strides in helping public spaces become more accessible to the physically handicapped, fewer attempts have been made to help those suffering from mental handicaps. This research will help to address one of the many subgroups that struggle to mentally navigate public spaces. Through secondary research, case studies, and visual analysis, this research will explore practical methods and solutions that enable people with aphasia to navigate and utilize airports independently and confidently. The solution to this issue will require a layered approach of reimagining signage and navigation tools for airports and creating training tools for airport employees to better understand and serve aphasia patients when they travel. Equipping aphasic travelers with the necessary tools and support will empower them to fly with confidence and independence. This collection of research and tools could expand to impact other people with language disorders navigating high-traffic public spaces like hospitals, schools, subways, and bus stations

From A Traveling Daughter: A Photographic Memoir

“World sits outside the door, A voice in your heart is calling, The ends of the world await, Traveling daughter, Feel the sunshine on your face, Starlight guides your feet, Earth and Sky will carry you, Journey after journey, One mountain to the next, Voice in your heart is calling.” (Abigail Washburn, “Song of the Traveling Daughter” translated from Mandarin Chinese) My family keeps me safe, but it is this safety that protects me from the discomfort that is necessary for growth. Like Abigail Washburn’s “voices,” my discontent and my curiosity call me to venture far beyond what I can see from my parent’s porch. Yet, those familial roots will always keep me grounded. I am a traveling daughter—carrying my family, my upbringing, and those values with me wherever I go. Inspired by Abigail Washburn’s “Song of the Traveling Daughter,” I have adopted the title, “From A Traveling Daughter,” as a reminder of why I embark on a journey across the Pacific to grapple with the struggles of life and aging and to cherish shared moments of kindness and thoughtfulness. Really, I am a daughter of the human race, and I hope that I can continue to learn from the rest of my human family–the people that I meet along my life journey

The Promethean, Volume 01, Number 03, Spring 1993

When given a full page on which to write freely, one should should always pick up a pen and begin, and I, luckily, have been given this page. Only the reader can decide if what I have written is thoughtful and important. This is the third issue of a journal which has yet to realize its full potential. Improvements have been made, and they will always be necessary as we strive for (near) perfection. To realize this goal, everyone must contribute; submissions must be made (from both on and off campus); support must be offered. When this is done, the journal will truly be a group project to be looked upon with distinction and pride. In this capacity, The Promethean very well could be the very unifying identity of which Concordia is in need. I would like to take this opportunity to address a concern that was raised with the last issue: The Promethean didn\u27t print all submissions received from Concordia students. No, we didn\u27t. In fact, we printed many pieces received from off-campus sources. Our goal is to publish a number of diverse pieces. Such a goal requires input from many sources and support from all readers. I can only offer critics this advice: celebrate the creativity and work behind each piece with an open mind. If you read a piece you don\u27t like, write something to top it. If you read something you do like, tell the writer. In either case, the journal will become a creative outlet and marketplace. In this process of creating a forum for writers, I have a very small part. So, with the rest of my free page, I would like to thank the writers; without their desires, dreams, hopes, fears, creativity, concern, love, and highly perceptive way ofliving life with an eager curiousity, this journal would not be missed when printed late. I would like to thank Scott Ward for his simplicity and perception. I would like to thank Peter Huggins for a unique twist on the season. Thank you, Angela, for taking time out of your busy schedule--good luck, by the way--to submit your thoughtful verse. Hey, Tim! Thanks for not being too bent out of shape when you realize I have used your real name for your piece. If anyone has a problem with his piece, re-read the first half of this column. Can you believe Tim was actually concerned? Erich, thank you for becoming involved and writing a piece many artists will appreciate. Randy, thanks for the disk and saving me a lot of time. Your piece is one of my favorites. (Do I have to be objective?) Dr. Wright, thank you for including a piece that will probably bore some because it is well written and addresses an idea that takes a great deal of literary background and scholarship. Isn\u27t that ironic? I would like to thank Dr. Kunert for writing a piece in which he is personally involved. It answers questions and reaffirms a genuine sense of what faith can mean to those in need. With this space left, I would like to ask that people get involved. Pull an old poem out of a drawer, write what you feel, inform those who search for knowledge. Write your part in this collective effort and send it in.https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cup_archives_promethean/1002/thumbnail.jp

Pornographic Deepfakes: The Case for Federal Criminalization of Revenge Porn’s Next Tragic Act

This could happen to you. Like millions of people worldwide, you have uploaded digital photographs of yourself to the internet through social media platforms. Your pictures aren’t sexually explicit or revealing—they depict your daily life, spending time with friends or taking “selfies” on vacation. But then someone decides they don’t like you. Using an app available on any smartphone, this antagonist clips digital images of your face from your innocuous pictures and pastes them seamlessly onto the body of a person engaged in sexually explicit acts. Without your knowledge or consent, you become the “star” of a realistic, pornographic “deepfake.” This hypothetical reflects an emerging phenomenon in sex exploitation cybercrimes—it is the next tragic act in the unauthorized public dissemination of private, sexually explicit photos or videos known as “revenge porn.” Is there anything you can do if someone inserts you into a pornographic deepfake image or video against your will? Is it against the law to create, share, and spread falsified pornography on the internet? At best, the answer to these questions is complicated and uncertain. At worst, the answer is no. Although criminalizing bad acts is the most effective deterrent against bad actors, no federal or state laws currently criminalize the creation or distribution of pornographic deepfakes. And since deepfakes exist in cyberspace, they are not confined to an individual state jurisdiction. This Article is the first to focus on the intersection of the law and pornographic deepfakes and to propose a legislative solution to the harms they unleash. Ultimately, this Article proposes a national response rooted in federal criminal law because everyone, everywhere is a potential deepfake victim—even you

Funkify: a social media platform for musicians

The rise of social networks is increasing and will continue to increase in the coming years, there have been many different types of social networks all with the same goal: connect more people and make themselves known if you own a business or your job requires a lot of networking which is the case of the musicians. The objective of this project is to develop a social media networked multiplatform (Android and IOS) for professional and non-professional musicians, geolocatable by person or place, which could be used to see and interact with other musicians in your area and to find rehearsal venues or music events near you, and the like. The main goal of this application is for musicians to interact with each other and promote their work, for example, collaborate and communicate with producers, record labels, and other similar tasks

Digital engagement and the ATSILIRN protocols: indigenous Australian experiences and expertise guiding the use of social media in libraries

Library and archive collections include many historical and contemporary materials relating to the first people of Australia. These collections are significant resources for Indigenous Australian people in connecting with their culture and heritage. They are also vital pieces of Australia’s documentary heritage that provide an understanding of the diverse experiences, histories and culture of Indigenous Australian people since 1788 and beyond. As libraries and archives increasingly explore social media for delivering services and connecting with communities the ATSILIRN (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library, Information and Resource Network) protocols provide insight and practical guidance for library staff. First published in 1995 by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the ATSILIRN Protocols provide a roadmap for building culturally responsive client services when engaging with Indigenous Australian communities. Has your Library considered use of Indigenous collections through social media? Do you know how to share information through social networks, whilst respecting cultural protocols and sensitivities? Would you like to increase access to collections relating to Indigenous people, but don't know where to start? Does your library or archive need strategies to incorporate the client needs of diverse communities? This presentation will explore how State Library of NSW has adopted the ATSILIRN protocols in its use of social media to engage with Indigenous communities and in sharing Indigenous material with the wider community. It will provide case study examples of ways in which staff have built capacity and made informed decisions about utilising Indigenous content in social media. The paper will aim to inspire others to deliver client services that incorporate the user needs of Indigenous Australian people and communities. The speakers will unpack some of the issues around using Indigenous collections through social media, and share experiences of the discussions that have opened up at the State Library of NSW in this area. This session will be for every library or archive who is thinking of developing services at the client edge, whilst keeping a commitment and respect for diversity