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Dick Palmer, Principal City College NorwichHi to all, my name's Dick Palmer and I'm the Principal of City College Norwich - one of the very best FE and HE colleges in the country. This Blog is my space to let you know about things going on in the College, in Norwich and in the wider educational community. As always, I welcome your comments so please let me know what you think.

Launch of the StartUp Lounge

I am really looking fowards to the launch of our new, innovative and creative facility at City College Norwich - the StartUp Lounge. This is taking place this coming Friday at mid-day with a range of events and activities associated with enterprise taking place at the same time.

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Open week at City College Norwich

Although we are only into the first week after half term during the Autumn Term, we are already thinking about next year! This week we have three open events.

1) There is our Sixth Form Open Evening this coming Thursday from 6pm to 8pm - for anyone interested in undertaking A levels (both AS and A2) next year. We have a fantastic new prospectus for the Sixth Form Centre, too.

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City College Norwich's Own Live Radio Station - On iPhone, Android or Blackberry

City College Norwich has just launched our very own live radio station - available by a free app,  from itunes store or at www.ccnliveradio.com

Listen in - between 7 and 9 am and 3 and 5 pm - and find out whats happening at YOUR college!

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Day 5 - Slightly scary library convert

Caution - clip contains swearing:

And a more gentle poem to finish the week:

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Going to the Libraryby Jessy Randall
In the library there are pathways
you follow to find out what you want to know --
imagine -- somewhere in all these books
or on the face of the computer or in parentheses
at the back of a magazine, there is
the perfect sentence, the answer to your question,
the words all around you like
the tornado in the Wizard of Oz never

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Day 4 - Thrills at the library Christmas party

See what librarians get up to in their spare time:

And today's poem:Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things
by Naomi Shihab Nye
She is holding the book close to her body,
carrying it home on the cracked sidewalk,
down the tangled hill.
If a dog runs at her again, she will use the book as a shield.
She looked hard among the long lines
of books to find this one.
When they start talking about money,
when the day contains such long and hot places,
she will go inside.

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Financial support for next year

Are you applying for a course next year? As you may be aware EMA is winding down and anyone starting a new course in September 2012 will not be able to claim.

However there is still good financial support for you through various bursary and learner support funds - the 16-19 Bursary Scheme and the Adult Discretionary Learner Support Fund. Our Finance Team is now taking names and addresses for people applying for courses next year, to send out an application pack.

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College Blog

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A Tutor view on @MADEfestival from Ben Bidwell

It was an early start to the day from St Andrews' House, but everyone showed up on time and relatively upbeat. No disasters on the way there and with our safe arrival at Mecure Hotel in Sheffield, the students started working on the networking skills - meeting a few new faces (some famous) and collecting a great deal of business cards!

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And yet more from @MADEfestival

Our student watching Peter Jones and other pannelists.

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More from@MADEfestival

Here's some pictures of what's been going on...

 

Principals Dick Palmer, City College Norwich and Fintan Donohue, North Herts College take the "Enterprise Express" from London to the festival in Sheffield

 

The apprentices arrive in force!

 

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Staff Blogs

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Speech recognition in Windows and Apple

Is speech recognition software finally coming of age?

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mentormob

As one door closes...

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learnclick

An easy to use online cloze test/gap fill creator is available at http://learnclick.com/.

As the site says,
"Take any text, mark the words you want to learn and learnclick.com transforms your text into a cloze dletion test"

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