Coming Events at CVN Weekly

by jdb_educator, Managing Editor Cybertown Virtual News IS CVN

March 21/03

This is: Issue 12 of edition 5 of CVN Weekly (#118)

Early is better than later in my estimation! So We hope you will check the links for the news. Our front page is pretty bare. We do have an editorial and a picture story for you, and whatever else our section editors have published/will publish this week... The CVN Weekly News will be kind of thin this week. The reasons are simple:

Time, time, time...Mere moments are all we have, create, steal and make. The things we do mean those many other things we cannot do! As a result, it is up to the many sections, diverse newsletters to provide content upon their links. A simple email to me will allow me to spotlight those additions in an email to our readers. I will not have time next week to review all the stories. One person can achieve a lot in a small amount of time. To run a regular newsletter on a daily or weekly basis or even monthly, takes lots of effort a lot of friends willing to help and a constant supply of new, interesting, fun content.

This week my focus has to become administrative. (Takes a Richard Nixon pose with hands held high in a V for victory sign showing from both hands AND two fingers on each hand) "I am the Managing Editor" this being states. (The tone changes to a LBJ Texas drawl) Ma Fellow Cytonians..." (then reverts to normal-whatever that might be!) "There are too many promises out there, not to complete the dismissal notices, provide the appropriate rewards and apply for titles of many deserving folks, some of them may even continue to write for you!"

Although this whole Virtual thing is fun, flexible and pretty risk free, there are obligations that any leader must find the time to complete.

Next week, I travel to Silver City, New Mexico to take the certification test for Bilingual Education. It is without a doubt the craziest way to begin Spring Vacation that I can think about not to mention actually do! LOL I could/should stay home and play on and around Cybertown all week. Sounds like more fun to me!

However such is what happens here on earth! While I doubt that I will use that certification; it never hurts to add to the paperwork of credentials in education or any other field. (Adds with quiet laughing) I never thought I would ever teach Special Education again, either And now am teaching the lowest level of children with the highest level of needs. I wish I could introduce you to each one of these awesome children, but earth law and common sense tell me that will never happen. I do encourage you to get to know and understand such children and grown ups in your own community. There is amazing value to each of these people. They have much to teach us about the human spirit. This differently abled people are truly special in all the good sense of that word special.

I hate the spring at CVN. It is time for massive layoffs, house cleaning etc. *looks out the window, long sigh* But then, Such is life. names will be dropped from our title lists. Those who wish may move to some of our inactive groups (CVN Weekly, freelancers, or back to our cub-reporters group at yahoo. Many as yet univited writers will have the opportunity to join CVN at yahoogroups, sign contracts and be exposed to some of the most fun we have in creating stories, articles and getting to know each other.

Our annual CVN spring cleaning of titles has now arrived. We will have several redesigns of our CVN game that will permit those players who only want to get published but do not want to chase titles an easy way to keep up with CVN changes. Likewise we are planning changes, like contracts, that will be interesting and we hope fun for both our long term players, our "I want a title players " and our now and then writers. Stay tuned!

So there you go, read on and enjoy :) Be sure to come back next week or even more often this week!

***** Here at CVN we have lots of new activities and pages developing. All the CVN Deputies agreed everyone in management should have their own page or section! As we continue this dynamic experiment in Internet journalism, We hope you look forward to more and varied content, lots of activities and neat contests from around the city.

Our focus is simple: fun, entertainment, good and reasonable content, and the improvement of writing. Our goal is to report the news in Cybertown that does not duplicate the Daily News or would be more appropriate for this magazine format.

CVN Weekly will claim no responsibility for what other people have on their site. So caution in exploring those URLs is recommended and even urged. We received notice of some CT "offensive language" but do not see ourselves in this publication or the monthly as required to eliminate such websites from our use. People can always find something offensive if they choose to look far enough, or click on other pages than we send them to read. Our focus is on the article we present, whether in the weekly or monthly. Obviously we try to avoid an over abundance of the too often used "bad words" simply believing their use shows a lack of creativity and poor selection of word choices available. However our thanks do go to those correspondents who alert us of possible errors in judgement, or other errors they may catch for us, ranging from html to dead links. Several of our Cybertown friends have pointed out dangers and concerns in the past. We treat each notification as serious and think, before we respond. Since we are truly independent of Cybertown, we recognize that Cybertown is not responsible for our actions, and do URGE common sense and caution in clicking on ANY url of our publication here. We are certain that you would have to explore thoroughly to find bad language at all in the Daily. The Daily News is the official site news for CVN. The rest of our publications are citizen written and supervised, providing practice for those interested in developing journalist or cyber publication skills.

Job openings and possibilities are, as always, wide open. Anyone who wants to play, learn, grow, and work is welcome. A request for a job, or application and two contributions to our news organization that we publish in the Daily News or the Weekly News are required for Cybertown titles and virtual pay. (The only kind we can afford!)

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