RKC (ROSEMEAD KIWANIS CLUB) WEEKLY REPORTER – 06/15/2008

 

Greetings to our K-Family (Kiwanis affiliated partner group of clubs), RKN (Rosemead Kiwanis Network) and other friends

 

          Below are:

 

·        NEWS: Recent developments and activities related to Rosemead –  see “Special Report” below for a review of new tutorial aid, the “Virtual Classroom”

 

·         EVENTS: Activities in and around Rosemead, with emphasis on Rosemead Club meetings and Rosemead Kiwanis Network activities.

 

·         FAX OF LIFE: An inspirational email attachment, courtesy of Scott’s Valley Kiwanis. This one is entitled “Take Time”

 

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NEWS

 

          Unique software available - See “Special Report” below    

 

UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS:

 

  

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE 18, 2008 – Rosemead Safety Meeting

 

The monthly Rosemead Community Safety meeting begins at 7:00 at the Rosemead Pubic Safety Center,  8301 East Garvey Avenue (one block esast of San Gabriel Blvd on the North side of the street at the intersection with Charlotte) Rosemead, CA 91770. the information telephone is  (626) 569-2292, attention Mandy Wong. Parking will be available in the adjacent Zapopan Park parking lot. Please enter off of Garvey Avenue.

 

 

THURSDAY JUNE 19, 2008 – RKC MEETING: Virtual Classroom   (Regular Meeting)*

 

Officers of locally-based Abacusoft illustrate the latest in Internet innovation – new software that allows a tutor in real time to work with several students in real time in any of several modalities: audio, visual, whiteboard, chat, regardless of computer type or operating system.  And its all available for instant replay later! This will be a live, online demonstration – see special report below.

 

THURSDAY JUNE 26, 2008 – RKC MEETING: Africa Missions (Regular Meeting)*

 

Mark Clark, pastor of Rosemead’s Grace Chapel Church, shares his observations from a March trip he took to an orphanage his congregation helps support in Africa

 

THURSDAY JULY 3, 2008 – RKC MEETING: Rosemead Safety Department and Neighborhood Watch (Regular Meeting – Rescheduled from 6/12)*

 

Don Anderson, Rosemead Safety Department Administrator, and Mandy Wong, formerly with the Rosemead School District and newly appointed Community Coordinator, will cover Rosemead’s Safety Department with emphasis on the rebuilding of Rosemead’s Neighborhood Watch units.

 

          THURSDAY JULY 10, 2008 – RKC MEETING: Disaster Counseling

             (Regular Meeting)*

 

Speaker: Lynda Harbert, M.S., MFT, Family Therapist and Emergency Situations Therapist will discuss her experiences.  These include the Sept 11th Tragedy in New York and the Oklahoma City Bombing and how she had to help console the many victims and their families. She will also discuss her duties when there is a national tragedy and how fast she must prepare to get there. 

 

THURSDAY JULY 17, 2008 – RKC MEETING: Batter Up! (Regular Meeting)*

 

Speaker Jay Johnstone, former Dodger and Angel baseball star, will share some of his historical and hysterical stories of his experiences with the some seven or so baseball clubs he played for and how baseball has changed over the years from a sport to a profitable business. He hopes to bring a few souvenirs and autograph some pictures as well as any bats, gloves, or balls our members may want to bring for him to sign.

 

THURSDAY JULY 24, 2008 – RKC MEETING:Maryvale (special meeting –   

location: 7600 Graves, Rosemead CA )*

 

In conjunction with Bookends, San Gabriel Kiwanis and others, the Rosemead Kiwanis Club has been helping to develop a Reading Resource Center at Maryvale, which began as the Los Angeles orphanage over 150 years ago.  The center is now operational and we be part of an open house, coordinated by Maryvale’s RKC liaison, Joanie Rudesill, who is also the center coordinator.

            Lunch details associated with this meeting are still being arranged.

 

         THURSDAY JULY 31, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Regular Meeting)*

 

           (details to be announced)

 

                            * - unless otherwise indicated, Kiwanis meetings are at 12:10 in

                                 California Mission Inn chapel’s multipurpose room, 4807 Earle

                                 (north of Mission and south of Grand ½ block on west  side of

                                 the street), Rosemead. Street parking is normally required.

 

 

WEEKLY FAX OF LIFE INSPIRATIONAL E-MAIL: “Take Time” – see file  attached

 

     (Note: the rosemeadkiwanis.org website now has a two year accumulation

       of Fax of Life inspirational monographs available for review  – see the Fax

       of Life link at bottom of the “Newsletters” section of the website.)

 

           

Special Report: Virtual Classroom

 

Imagine an online virtual classroom.

 

You have a computer monitor in front of you, optional toll-free computer headset or a regular telephone, possibly a web cam peering at you. The set-up is operating in real time, with small windows offering a choice of information sources: chat room, white board, PowerPoint presentation, text document, spreadsheet.  On the side, assuming they have webcams, are optional pictures of other  participants – when they speak you can see their faces and judge their expressions.

 

Material from any of the participant’s computers can be displayed in center screen, as can the material from the small windows. For maximum effect any of the above can be raised to full screen. Its all under the control of the meeting host.

 

Remarkably it doesn’t matter if a participant is running a PC or a MAC, Linux or Windows. This program runs on any computer with enough memory to  handle Adobe Flash and a high speed connection. There are no operating system or manufacturer constraints.  

 

Lag time?  Mere seconds as opposed to around ten seconds or more on comparable products (OK – so maybe there is no real comparison since this is a step beyond existing versions of  Webex or gotomeeting)

 

The purpose? To have group meetings, instructional tutorials – its up to the owners.  But when the meeting is over there is a surprise:

 

The entire session has been recorded and is available for password protected playback. And since it’s a Flash file participants can review it as much as they want and even add notes.

 

Sound like a fantasy?  Nope – it exists today, Best of all it has been developed and is supported by a local firm with whom several Kiwanians are already familiar. It will be demonstrated live at the Rosemead Kiwanis meeting on June 19.

 

Unbelievable? Make your meeting reservations by Tuesday – then come see for yourself.

 

 

 

 

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