“ASAS provides year-round school based comprehensive after school programs (Jones & Polonsky 2008). After-School All Stars provides school-based after school programming to over 70,000 public school students in 13 cities. ASAS schools offer a minimum of one enrichment activity from every domain for a total of at least eight hours of programming each week for a minimum of 20 weeks during the course of the academic year (Jones & Polonsky 2008). Along with eight hours a week of regular ASAS…
According to Indira Gandhi, the first woman to be elected Prime Minister in India, “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.” As a person whose life has spanned across Kuwait, India, Chicago, and now Colorado, I have personally experienced how education has improved the lives of individuals and communities. Conversely, I have observed how…
the functions and software were gathered from several resources at Advia Credit Union. Eric Sheldon, Symitar core administrator for Advia Credit Union provided the following insight on the core application. Symitar uses both Java programming and a proprietary programming called PowerOn. There is SQL Server functionality for queerer reporting. Advia Credit Union also uses Opcon Enterprise Manager to schedule nightly processing for Advia and even to run routine jobs daily, weekly and monthly. …
The Lower Merion School District provided laptop computers to high school students as part of a one to one program. The program allowed the students to bring home a laptop computer provided by the school district. Unbeknownst to the students or their parents the laptop computers were all programed with spyware that gave the school district access to the computers’ webcam. The goal of the one to one program was to increase the connectivity between home and school for students. The access to…
Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer from Technical University in Berlin. Zuse invented the first automatic calculating machine during 1935-1938 and called it V1 and it was the size of a pool table. Zuse later changed the name to Z1 so that it would not be confused with the German rocket V1. Z1 was a binary mechanical calculator; it executed instructions read from punch cards and metallic shafts that could shift from position 0 to 1 (O 'Regan). Zuse invented Z1 to speed up calculation while…
Other than having video games being present within a film, the industry decided to cooperate with this new technology. Hollywood, rather than try to fight off this industry, had decided to license successful movie titles to game manufacturers, some studios even having separate divisions that would create a video game based off a film. By allowing their films to have video game counterparts, especially the successful ones, which would allow more money to be brought into the company. If people…
Power of Technology Technology for me personally has been a huge benefit to my life. Because of the advances in technology I now have access to all kinds of things at my fingertips. Thinking back to before all the touchscreens were possible and virtual worlds did not control the adolescent lifestyle. Having a bike, or a baseball bat is also considered technology. Treadmills and toasters are too. All these inventions along with thousands of more have been quite beneficial to the common…
planning, monitoring and evaluation of development projects. The function of logical framework is to help the project design, implementation and evaluation. (WEDC) The variations of the logical framework are known as Goal Oriented Project Planning (GOPP) or Objectives Oriented Project Planning (OOPP). From numerous analysis, there are many different views on logical framework about the advantages and limitations. The logical framework is derived from the U.S Agency…
More often than not, the movies and television series we all know and love aren’t original stories; they are, in some way, shape, or form, adaptations of various forms of literature. For example, beloved titles such as Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, among numerous others, hail from written works bearing the same names. However, this practice of adapting pieces of literature is often scrutinized, for there is always a question as to whether or not an adaptation does justice to the original…
and is called “The Mystical Man Month”. The Book In the “The Mystical Man Month”, the author is describing the abstract ideas of project management as well as software engineering. In the beginning, Brooks talks about the joys and problems of programming. The important idea that the…