Caroline Dobison joins Staff!

Meet the newest member of the Region Hub IV Staff: Caroline Dobison. Caroline's been with Hub IV since November as the Management Information System Specialist for the Hub IV Project under Paul Heavenridge. Not only is Caroline new to the Sacramento County Office of Education and the OTAN family, but she is also new to the Sacramento area having recently moved here from Los Angeles.

Some of her previous work experience includes working with a local school district in the Los Angeles area and also with the Federal Aviation Administration. In her spare time, Caroline loves to read science fiction novels, dance, play dominos and hang out with friends.

Caroline will be in charge of the Hub's database and is fast becoming a HTML wizard. Please welcome her at cdobison@otan.dni.us

Hub IV Pages Get New Look and Logo

Goodbye to the flying saucer... we now have a new logo that embodies the spirit and richness of Region IV (thanks and a tip-of-the-hat to our MultiMedia Designer and resident Web Meister, Alan Galbraith!). Besides this page, there are a few other changes. Instead of "Archives" (it sounded somewhat out-of-date and musty), we now have renamed the page "Library". In the near future, we will incorporate a clickable map of the Region. The style philosophy for these pages is to never be stale in content or look. Your comments and suggestions are thus most welcomed!

New Literacy Resources from OTAN

Check out the most recent adult literacy document additions under the OTAN WWW gopher server at Current Documents.

OTAN maintains the World's largest electronic collection of adult education materials including lesson plans, grant information, program guidelines, curriculum resources, research articles, course outlines, and more. You can browse or search this collection by accessing OTAN's Forum page.

What's New and Cool (Some Links Worth Hitting!)

Need the latest shareware? Check out the C/NET Shareware.com for one of the best software resources on the Web.

Want the latest news for that lesson plan on current events? CNN Interactive is the place to look. Updated hourly, it contains news in text, film clips, and audio! It has only been up seven weeks and is getting two and a half million hits a day (Yes, that is not a typo: 2,500,000 hits). They even have an archive of older stories.

A great site for all your reference needs, the The Virtual Reference Desk is a good resource. Brought to you by the library folks at Purdue University, this is quick way to find another word for "cool" or how to spell "onomatopoeia".