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OMG!!! May 2, 2009 Neighborhood garage Sale

April 25, 2009 – 4:07 pm

 

May 2, 2009

East Nashville Garage Sale

Several Lockeland Springs neighbors are having garage sales on Saturday May 2, 2009.

Wow!!!! There is SO MUCH STUFF.

Locations:

  • 1607 Forrest Ave.
  • 1108 Gartland Ave.
  • 1206 Gartland Ave.
  • 1207 Gartland Ave.
  • 1306 Gartland Ave.
  • Lockeland Baptist Church – 1601 Holly St.

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1607 Forrest Ave

WE NEED SPACE!!! We are preparing our house for some renovations. Our parents collected stuff, we collected stuff. Our parents are now gone. We were inspired by HGTV’s Clean House, and so we are “cleaning house” to make room for some desperately needed upgrades to our historic house. Folks, we have a ton of stuff. Some new. Some old. Come check it out.

  • House hold goods
  • Thrift store buys
  • Designer & assorted clothing
  • 2-Single beds (old school. solid wood. sturdy)
  • Futon
  • Office furniture. Several office desks and computer desks. All in great condition.
  • Antiques
  • Dorm refrigerator
  • Freezer
  • Leather Products, backpacks, and old luggage
  • Collectables
  • Panasonic AG-450 Prosumer video camera with hard case, battery, and charger
  • Electronics
  • Jewelry (Costume and some 14K. Ask us about it when you get here)
  • Toys
  • Shoes
  • OMG… there is so much stuff. I know I’ve forgotten to list something.

Times: 8:00AM – 5:00PM

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1108 Gartland Ave.

We have merged households and are now trying to make space for a little one. We have an abundance of kitchen items, including small appliances, dishes, canisters, pots and pans. We also have Christmas items, bedding, decorative accessories, women’s and men’s clothing, a nightstand, a 21″ Magnavox television, set of 5 antique Windsor chairs, a CD player, dresser, scanner, 3-in-1 printer and plenty of other household items.

Times: 8AM-3PM

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1206 & 1207 Gartland

An assortment of things:

  • Lamps
  • Kitchen items
  • Toys
  • Ornaments
  • Printer stand

A bit of everything really. Martha across the road at 1207 Gartland has similar household items plus furniture.

Times: 8:00AM – 4:00PM

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Lockeland Baptist Church

Our address is 1601 Holly St (at 16th across from the fire hall). We are emphasizing furniture and housewares. All of our proceeds go to benefit an orphanage we help sponsor.

Times: 9:00AM – 2:00PM

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1306 Gartland Ave.

  • Vintage & Designer Clothing & Shoes
  • Antiques
  • Furniture
  • 2-Vintage Record Players & Records
  • Dark Room
  • Closet Shutter Doors
  • Doors
  • Planting pots

Times: starts at 8:00AM

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ATM Machines

ATM machines are conveniently located for your purchasing pleasure. Don’t loose that great deal. Plan ahead and bring cash.

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  3. Suntrust: Map

Updates, News, Rain

Bookmark this page for updates on additional items, locations, and times. As the facts come in, I’ll post them here.

  • 4/30: The consensus is in. Rain or shine, the garage sales are a “go”. For the most part, everyone has a backup plan for protecting customers and goods from getting wet.
  • In the event of rain for Lockeland Baptist Church, please use either of the glass double doors on the Holly St side of their education wing (adjacent to Evander St side parking lot)
  • 1607 Forrest Ave will have goods on front porch and in basement if rain is an issue
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pbcl

The makinglearningreal.org is live

April 11, 2009 – 1:14 am

I wanted to take this opportunity to let everyone know about a project that I and a group of NSCC faculty, administrators, and students have been working on. One application of critical thinking teaching modalities in the classroom is through the PBCL model (Problem-based Case Learning). This method creates a partnership between faculty, students, and industry to bring real-world problem solving into the classroom. Since there are usually many ways to solve the business problem, the learning is rich in critical thinking skills. Several faculty on campus are involved in pursuing this methodology.

I am a member of the ITL staff. The ITL (Innovation in Teaching and Learning) staff, located in the CITE office on our campus, has been working in partnership with the NSF (National Science Foundation), WGBH in Boston, and The Midwest Center for Information Technology to develop a rich learning resource to understand the PBCL model and connect with a community of practice to use PBCL in the classroom.

The culmination of this effort is the Making Learning Real web site (http://www.makinglearningreal.org). The site is finished and has just gone live. Please take a moment and check it out. You will see video interviews with administrators, faculty, students, and local Nashville business partners. There are several links in the Community and Training section if you are interested in learning more.

This resource is meant to be a national resource for dissemination of the PBCL teaching model. Feel free to share this resource with your students, clients, and colleagues.

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document.write() function

April 7, 2009 – 6:17 pm

One of my online students was baffled moving from HTML coding to javascript. This is not surprising since they are very different languages. For my students, and others, that are struggling, the following tutorial may be helpful, http://w3schools.com/js/js_intro.asp.

I don’t consider myself a coder. Others are far more qualified. Still I’ll take a stab at answering specific question you may have. For students, post the question in the discussion forum. For visitors post the question in my contact form.

For this article, let me see if I can address the things this student has questioned.

Q:”I typed the code in as shown, but I didn’t comprehend how it worked.”

A: Did the code work? Some of the authors examples are Explorer and PC centric. For example the status bar code does not work in Firefox. So if your code doesn’t work, I can give you an alternate approach to illustrate the concept of an event handler.

Q: What are the plus signs for in the script on J-15?

A: The “+” sign can perform different functions depending on the context. In an arithmetic operation, it performs addition. When it is between “strings”, i.e text, it concatenates the strings together. For example, document.write(“I love” + ” javascript”), prints the two strings “I love” and “javascript” together so it looks like “I love javascript” on the screen. It is often used to mix strings and variables together. You can find out more at the following URL http://w3schools.com/js/js_operators.asp

Q: Why are there parentheses, then quotes, then quotes within quotes?

A: On page J-15 in your text, there is code in Figures J-14, 15, and 16. In figure J-16 is the following code:

document.write(“<h3>” + name + “, to subscribe to our newsletter, fill out the form below. </h3>”)

document.write() is a function. It prints what ever is in the parenthesis to the screen. The code wants the following to print to the screen. The name of the person  followed by the text “to subscribe…”. The name information is retrieved by the variable assignment in Figure J-14, ie.

var name=prompt(“Type your first name”)

The person is prompted to enter their first name. That information is saved in the variable “name”. Then the document.write() function prints the contents of the variable, the following text, and surrounds it all with an <h3> tag. So it prints the <h3> tag, then adds the variable value, then the text followed by the ending </h3> tag.

Let me know if you found this little tutorial helpful. Drop me a line.

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