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Front Page News
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MCC's first Bring Your Turkey to Work Day was apparently a huge success, as staff, administrators and students on Monday collected 76 turkeys to be donated to the Merrimack Valley Food Bank! Staffers were thankful there was no fowl play in action...
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A group of Middlesex staffers on the Bedford campus are sewing pillowcases for young cancer patients. As part of ConKerr Cancer’s A Case for Smiles program ( www.ConKerrCancer.org ), the group gathered after work recently in the Bedford Campus Center’s...
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Veterans Day 2009 brought military honors to an MCC student this week in the form of a Purple Heart for injuries he suffered five years ago in Iraq. Stephen Kinney, a sergeant with the New Hampshire Army National guard, on Wednesday received his Purple...
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For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British...
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As if it wasn't bad enough that folks 'round these parts had to watch the New York Yankees win the World Series, along comes another win that's hard to swallow - the folks in Information Technologies, the Tech-Know Geeks, this weekend claimed...
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Students and faculty from the Middlesex Lowell Academy Charter School came to MCC's Lowell campus to attend a concert presented by the MCC Music Department Outreach Program. The Music Outreach Program, now in its fifth year, has presented concerts...
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Congrats go out to Donna Holaday, one of our own at MCC, who was successful last night in her bid to be the Mayor of Newburyport! Holaday, a councilor-at-large in Newburyport, was elected the city's newest mayor with a 2,704-2,257 victory (a 55% to...
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Five Middlesex Community College art students are displaying artwork in the windows of Lowell’s historic Rialto Building. Created as part of the annual Lowell Arts Festival, the paintings, collages and elaborate cut-paper pieces will be on view...
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Quite often when people are working on materials for their Blackboard course sites the documents that they want use already exist as Micrsoft Word documents so the tendency is to copy and paste from that document into the Blackboard text editor. When...
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I have previously written about the issue of files being zipped when they make the transiton into Blackboard . I have now become aware of other reason that things may become zipped when they are attached. This comes from the "Behind the Blackboard"...
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Video in your course website no longer needs to be time consuming and difficult to manage. There are many sites out there these days that have materials that will work in your course and they are easy to include in your site. Let's start with some...
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You may be used to coming here for suggestions regarding the use of Blackboard in your courses online or other wise. However there's a new blog on the block that may help to support your teaching in different way. Peter Shea Pedogogical Instructional...
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This week, more than three dozens members of a delegation from Brazil visited MCC's Bedford campus to meet with MCC administrators to hear more about the college's international, business, and leadership programs. The visit was facilitated by...
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Back by popular demand, it's MCC's Trivia Night! The event was a huge hit when it was held in the spring, and it looks as though many of the same teams will be returning this time around. Everyone is looking to topple last spring's winners,...
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Under a bright blue sky and with a wind roaring into the open meadow, more than 75 MCC administrators, faculty and students gathered with their community partners on Thursday to officially open the MCC Fitness Trail! Located behind the Trustees Building...
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Now that we've caught your attention, folks need to know about an important upcoming community event in the city of Lowell. Thursday, October 15th is Unwanted Medication Disposal Day at the Lowell Health Department, an important community health initiative...
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There was a bunch of rain-related songs that almost made it into the headlines, the Beatles Rain , the Ronettes' Walking in the Rain (any others you can think of?) but in the end, we decided to just heap some praise on a stalwart band of MCC students...
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Would you be prepared if something happened and you could not teach your class? It doesn’t matter if it’s the H1N1 flu or a broken limb there is always that chance of an extended emergency. These emergencies apply to your students as well...
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Some of you may have noticed that your course lists are shorter this morning than they have been in the past. Well this is all thanks to our technical connection/genius Matthew Scales of the IT staff. He has created the module that handles the course...
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More than 200 people have signed up for Wednesday's free public health community forum, Preventing Opioid Overdoses, a partnership project between MCC's program on Homeland Security, the Lowell Health Department, and the office of State Representative...
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More than 100 MCC students were joined today by President Carole Cowan and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas of Lowell as they performed community service as part of the college's Seasons of Service, with today's events coordinated to commemorate the...
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Folks on MCC's city campus are taking steps in the right direction by joining a robust exercise regimen, complete with free membership and equipment! Take the Stairs is a new health and wellness campaign the college has kicked off for occupants of...
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So it's back to school time here at MCC, and while students are running around scooping up their textbooks and doing their last-minute class registrations, the MCC administration is also spending a considerable amount of time trying to get students,...
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(Or at least one of the top 40 billboards in the Greater Lowell area) Since you've all probably been too busy paying attention to the rules of the road, focused on your own lane, cognizant of your fellow drivers, and of course, keeping a watchful...
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Six Middlesex students recently spent two weeks in Russia, participating in the college’s International Student Fellowship Program to Russia. The trip was part of an ongoing exchange program between MCC and Bryansk State Technical University. BSTU...
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