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Workshop enables teachers to become computer literate
To further enhance the computer skills of local primary and high school teachers, the Jack Hayward High School hosted a 'Teachers Workshop' that began Monday and ended yesterday at the school.Shantell Rolle, one of the co-ordinators and computer teachers at Jack Hayward High School gave an outline of some of the events that took place at the workshop.
"The teachers did a summer computer workshop for four days and they were being introduced to Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel and some other programmes that they will be using in the classroom," Rolle said.
"This computer workshop was held to heighten their abilities to work with the students in the classroom."
The workshop was well represented by various primary and high school teachers in Grand Bahama who attended with the hope of gaining a headstart on what they will be doing in the upcoming school year.
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Top-notch summer hoops
A number of collegiate basketball teams from the United States are expected to be in Nassau this summer to play exhibition games against members of the men's national teams and local ball clubs.On Friday, The Nassau Guardian spoke with executive member of The Bahamas Basketball Federation Lawrence Hepburn about the upcoming friendlies with the Americans.
The first series of games is scheduled to run August 17-24. During that week the University of Massachusetts will be in town.
The second series of games will be played August 18-26, featuring the University of Oregon Ducks. The final series of exhibition games will be played September 1-3.
Some six teams in total will visit over the three-week span.
In addition to the college teams, C.I.