Multi-faceted Refractions

Thoughts and Reflections from Vinnie Vrotny

Multi-faceted Refractions

Entries Tagged as 'teaching and learning'

On Demand PD – Technology Resolutions

January 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · 21st Century Learning, Professional Development, Staff Development, teaching and learning

In order to beat the Winter Blahs, the Library and Technology Staff challenged the faculty and staff to set a personal technology learning goal. We emailed the following to members of our school community:

Make and Keep a Technology New Year’s Resolution

New Year’s Day is a great time to set new goals and [...]

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Living and Learning with New Media Report Released

November 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · 21st Century Learning, teaching and learning

The Digital Youth Research (digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu) group, a group of USC and Cal-Berkeley reseachers working with a MacArthur Foundation Grant, released their Living and Learning with New Media report. Included with in the release was a two page summary of their findings, a white paper report prepared for the MacArthur Foundation, and an online book (chapter [...]

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Life Magazine Photo Archive Hosted by Google

November 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning

You can now access millions of photographs from the Life Magazine photo archives in a Google Image Search. Google, in partnership with Life has now made these photographs, many which have never been published available.
You can access these images by either going to http://images.google.com/hosted/life or by adding “source:life” to any Google image search.
These images are [...]

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Learning by Observing

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments · 1:1, Professional Development, teaching and learning

It is 4:30 a.m. and I am wide awake, with many idea fragments and thoughts running through my brain. I cannot sleep and have to capture these kernals and observations so that I can retrieve them for the daunting task which I am currently facing, which is to act as an unbiased mirror, reflecting and [...]

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It is a Small, Interconnected World After All

November 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning

As an independent school educator, we occasionally get invited to participate to help other schools evaluate themselves. For a school, this process occurs every seven years. Six weeks ago, I accepted an assignment from the Whitfield School in St. Louis to be a part of their visiting team.
Each team has a leader, who organizes the [...]

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