Time to harness your abilities in photoshop to develop magnificent pieces of art. For this assignment you will be working with an absolutely beautiful subject in photography, yourselves. In this project you wil be producing your very own modelling head shots. You can use this opportunity to accent your best physical features, or create a [...]

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Upon completion of your keyboards, please submit to me a written reflection of your project.
Things to include in your reflection:
Describe your keyboard and what you did to achieve your result, explain its features and flaws.
What where the challenges of this project?
How did you overcome these challenges?
What would you do differently if doing this assignment again?
How [...]

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New at MrVaughan.com is the ability for students to receive sms text message updates on classroom activities directly to their cell phones. Students, parents, and individuals interested in following the courses can opt in for updates directly to their phones by subscribing to the mailing list. It should be noted that standard text messaging rates do [...]

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It’s been about a month now since I installed and converted to Wordpress Mu on my server. I thought I would take this opportunity to document my progress and to give people a bit of an insight into what is required to get a site up and running. Hopefully if you are considering developing a [...]

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Wow I just figured out how to set up and use the poll widget which I will show you how to use tomorrow. So in honor of being able to create fun polls I decided that for our next assignment I am going to let the classes vote to see which will be the most [...]

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I recently just published an article on Adsense Arbitrage found here http://mrvaughan.com/mu/investing/adsense-arbitrage/ ; I’ve been looking into and thinking about this idea for a few weeks now and am curious to try it out and see if it actually works. My predication is that the margins will be quite tight but repeatable, meaning that if [...]

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There isn’t too many bloggers out there talking about reducing the number of ads on their sites. Well today for your benifit I took down some ads to make way for more content. On the right sidebar now where there was previously ads there is not more content. This content is primarily student written with [...]

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Huge update this weekend (well this morning check the time stamp) to MrVaughan.com. Now instead of having two seperate pages for the site (1 for the students to create their blogs and one for the course work), they have been seemlessly integrated into one. The main advandage this give is that now instead of having two [...]

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Previously we did look at the approximate size of the internet as determined by google. Now the next question we need to ask is where is everyone going on the internet?
To answer this question we need to use a website whose whole job is to answer this question.
Most of you proabably haven’t heard of Alexa, [...]

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Students and users of MrVaughan.com are now able to create their own blogs and share them with the world. To create a new blog click on the new link in the above menu. From there you will need to create a new account for your blog then once you have activated it, you will be imediately [...]

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