Walk this morning was good - another good episode, or most of one, from WWW, but nothing earth-moving in terms of new understanding of vocabulary. Mr. Mennenga came, so I walked in a bit later than usual, but that was ok - Amy's doing the Comp Lit 1 class right now (and Greg too), and French doesn't need much prep. Although, yay, I discovered that there's a very useful (and complete) comprehensive test for Units 5, 6 and 7 which I will gratefully use for my final. I'll add a bit, too, mostly to test their more recent learning of future and conditionnal (which is in Unit 8), but this will be worth remembering. So it qualifies as learning something new, right?
Beesley put the anniversary of the Easter Uprising, April 24, 1916 on his list of "Today in History"; Rayburn, very graciously, pointed this out to me. I don't think he expected the spate of family history I threw at him, but I wonder how differently I'll be perceived (since, face it, our perception of others is also influenced, in sometimes microscopic ways, by the smallest of pertinent details we learn about them in small increments). I'm also grateful that both Amy and Steve posted lovely and pertinent poems which, in their individual ways, epitomize elements of the cultural mindset I embrace. Viz:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/easter-1916 from Steve, a poem he subsequently sent to all students to commemorate the day, and:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/quarantine from Amy, a lovely, sad one that has an additional level of meaning for her, which I feel priviledged to know. Thanks, Amy.
In the realm of straight "I just learned how to do this", two versions of a very similar thing. I received a document as a PDF which I wanted to use as an editable document (it was the prize chart for the NFC winners, into which I wanted to insert my students in their appropriate categories). I use the option, which I had really never noticed before, of "Save to Other" within Adobe, and saved it as a Word doc. It did a very creditable job, especially since it was a table, of creating the same document in Word, and the important thing is that I can edit it now.
The other, similar thing I learned, is that from within Adobe I can scan a document, create it as a PDF, and then do the same thing (Save to Other) so that I have an editable Word document. This will probably not seem like a big deal in the future, but I'm pretty sure that I've wanted to do something like this more times than once in the past, and feel pretty happy that I managed it with absolutely no fuss. It was significant enough of a breakthrough that it should be written down, so I have a reference.
In the realm of straight "I just learned how to do this", two versions of a very similar thing. I received a document as a PDF which I wanted to use as an editable document (it was the prize chart for the NFC winners, into which I wanted to insert my students in their appropriate categories). I use the option, which I had really never noticed before, of "Save to Other" within Adobe, and saved it as a Word doc. It did a very creditable job, especially since it was a table, of creating the same document in Word, and the important thing is that I can edit it now.
The other, similar thing I learned, is that from within Adobe I can scan a document, create it as a PDF, and then do the same thing (Save to Other) so that I have an editable Word document. This will probably not seem like a big deal in the future, but I'm pretty sure that I've wanted to do something like this more times than once in the past, and feel pretty happy that I managed it with absolutely no fuss. It was significant enough of a breakthrough that it should be written down, so I have a reference.
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