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Student Study Abroad: An Educational Chance of a Lifetime

Original Content By Caitlin Cecic

Thought you had a few more years before your son or daughter asked for permission to travel abroad? It's a frightening thought for some parents, but he or she could get more out of the experience than you might think.

Student study abroad is an option for more than just college students. Programs are available for children as young as 10, but most only accept junior high and high school students.


Your biggest worry is most likely setting your student loose in another country. But unlike college study abroad programs, most programs for high school students offer 24-hour supervision and require students to observe curfews.

Another one of your worries could be how to pay for everything. Going to another country often means expensive airfare. In addition, boarding fees, meals and general expenses add up. The good news is your student can offset these costs by applying for study abroad scholarships. And telling him or her to apply for scholarships in order to travel out of the country will give you an idea of how much your teenager really wants to go.

Huge Benefits:
- Educational benefits like learning another language

- Intercultural development from your student's interactions with people from other cultures

- A greater "feel" for the world outside of their safety net

...and much more!

Determining a Program for Your Student:
- Summer Camps - instead of 50 miles away, send them 5,000 miles away!
- Educationally focused - often language courses are based on your student's academic proficiency level so they can learn at their own pace. Other types of classes are also usually offered for credit
- Choosing between student residence hall living or with a host family. Student residence halls come with meals, rooms and other students while a host family gives your student a greater opportunity for total immersion and educational benefits in language and culture

Now, where to?
- Before you send your student on their educational journey, remember to consider different countries' languages and cultures and then determine where to send your student based on their interests, goals and, of course, their safety

Helpful Resources:

http://www.amerispan.com/teenager_programs_abroad/
http://www.teenagersabroad.com/

Pro Tools 8: The Top Choice Student Software for Composing and Recording

By Laura B. Whitmore

Pro Tools 8 is a great software choice for students and professionals interested in songwriting and composition, and it includes a variety of templates that allow you to get into the thick of things as quickly as possible.

In addition to traditional multi-track recording, you and your students will find the looping capabilities in Pro Tools 8 MIDI regions on bar boundaries to help with looping and arrangement. This is great for doing building-block type composition. Create projects where you set spoken poems to a loop-based groove accompaniment, or have students piece together a variety of possible combinations from a palette of loops. very handy. There is a whopping 8 GB of pro-quality audio loops so that you can quickly sketch out musical ideas and can easily create your own customized loops. Use the Loop Trim tool to turn any audio or MIDI region into a loop instantly; Pro Tools always creates

Pro Tools 8 beefs up its tracking capabilities with up to 48 tracks of audio recording for its LE and M-Powered versions and nearly unlimited tracks for the HD version, so you’ll never run out of room. Also worth noting is that for the Pro Tools LE version, you can further increase the track number from 48 to 64 tracks with the addition of either DV Toolkit 2 or the Music Production Toolkit, and up to 128 tracks with the Complete Production Toolkit. These toolkits also deliver a collection of plug-ins to the user while increasing track count.

Pro Tools 8 also includes some cool new features such as the ‘playlists’ view, which streamlines the track comping work flow. This enables you to set a start and end point, then have that section loop over while you record. Each time it comes around again, a new comp track is made. Then you can select which one you like the best or which parts you want to piece together. Students will love this feature when they are working out their parts and will find it useful as they learning recording and editing techniques. Teachers can even pre-record different versions for students to piece together to make their own mix.

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Use this version with an M-Audio interface

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Tips & Tricks of the Trade

Ever get frustrated with software that’s supposed to be “easy-to-use”? Well, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are several helpful web resources with ‘tips and tricks of the trade,’ if you will, to help those “less-than-computer-saavy.”

Here are some of my favorites that I have found to be most resourceful in using student and academic software:

Seven Helpful Techniques That Every Adobe Illustrator Artist Should Know

- How to Make All Strokes and Effects Scale Proportionately - How To Make Guidelines on an Angle
- Reset the Box Around an Object That’s Been Rotated Back to Normal - Stretch a Box With Rounded Corners Without Distorting the Box or Selecting Individual Points
- One Document, Multiple Views (Up-Close and Far-Away), and Work In Either View
- Change Your Document's Background From White To Your Ow n Custom Color
- Quickly Hide All Unnecessary Palettes So You Can See What You're Doing

My go-to Adobe software help Web site is definitely Vectips. It offers a plethora of Adobe Illustrator tips, tricks and tutorials and is constantly being updates with the latest trends and helpful hints.

These days, a proficient understanding of Microsoft Office is a must in t he office. But how can you use your keyboard to he lp cut your work time in half? Check out these Microsoft Excel Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts to find out!

And if Corel software is your forte, check these helpful tips for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Painter, WordPerfect Office and more!

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