This Week's Facts:
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IDOE Offers Back-to-School
Online Resources
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Help Raise Awareness About
Psoriasis in August
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SecureID Regulations Cause
Changes at BMV
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NASA Resource Identifies
Weather Phenomena
Interactive Website Helps Children Create Art
Are you looking for a new way to help
children experience art? Try the National Gallery of Art’s
The Art Zone, part of
NGA Kids. The Art Zone homepage displays and describes each featured
activity included in the website and provides links to begin each one. Try
PhotoOp, which allows kids to capture photos using a virtual camera and
perform edits to the photographs.
3-D Twirler
allows kids to re-shape and rotate 3-D objects through space.
PixelFace allows kids to make digital changes to famous portraits. There are
several other ways the website encourages artistic thought, all extremely
creative. All activities require Adobe Shockwave, which can be downloaded free
from the website.
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now, most, if not all students have returned to school! There
are many changes this year and Indiana parents and students need
to be prepared for this exciting, challenging school year. The
most notable change for teachers is the
Proposed Rule Revisions for Educator Preparation and
Accountability (REPA), which helps to improve education
by imposing higher standards for teachers in Indiana schools.
Teachers are an integral part of the education process, but
parents are a critical part as well. Parents can help students
by knowing
Indiana’s education standards. You can also check the
status of your child’s
school as well as how to contact
schools in Indiana.
The Indiana Department of
Education has tools, resources, and a
Frequently Asked Questions page to help Indiana
parents and
educators provide an excellent school year to their
children and students.
Help Raise
Awareness About Psoriasis in August
 August is
Psoriasis Awareness Month, sponsored by the
National Psoriasis Foundation. Psoriasis is a disease that causes patches of
the skin to turn red, itchy, and scaly. It can affect the skin on any part of
the body, but most typically the elbows, knees, scalp, back, face, palms, and
feet. It is caused by a problem with your immune system. Skin cells that
normally take one month to rise to the surface do so in a matter of days.
Treatment can include corticosteroid ointments, topical and oral medications,
and phototherapy. MedlinePlus has an
entry about Psoriasis which includes an
Interactive Health Tutorial
that simplifies the condition for any audience.
The
Psoriasis tutorial
includes narration and allows the user to navigate
through the entire presentation for Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment Options, and
more. It also includes questions to ensure the audience understands the
information presented.
SecureID
Regulations Cause Changes at BMV
 Effective
January 1, 2010, Indiana residents will need to provide
additional identification to get their Indiana drivers licenses
and identification cards. Why is this happening?
SecureID is the
Indiana BMV’s
effort to fully comply with the recommendations of the 9/11
Commission and state and federal regulations in two important
ways. One is a requirement for everyone who currently holds an
Indiana driver’s license, permit, or identification card to
re-document themselves with original source documents, to prove
their identitiy. The second is mailing a permanent driver’s
license, permit, or identification cards from a government-run,
secure location to customers at home addresses following a
thorough verification process of source documents. BMV
Customers will need to bring original versions or certified
copies of source
documents to prove their identity and proof of
residency. For more information about SecureID, please visit the
Frequently
Asked Questions page of the BMV’s website.
New NASA Resource
Identifies Weather Phenomena
 Patrons interested in global weather
phenomena may want to check out NASA’s
Earth Observatory. Earth Observatory is a site that features
satellite-image photographs, articles and more. One cool aspect of the site is
the section on
Natural Hazards. The photographs here are generally of large-scale weather
events, such as hurricanes, floods and droughts. There are also some really
interesting pictures of active volcanoes. In addition to Natural Hazards, there
are several interactive maps on the site. For example, you can watch the
progression of
water vapor in a particular column of atmosphere from 2002 to 2009. Viewers
of the site can also read the Galapagos Island
blog or any of the related articles. Finally, interested in our impact on
the Earth? Don’t forget to check out
Human Presence – pictures of cities, ozone areas and manmade disasters. |
