I am a visual learner. When taking notes growing up, I was forever creating boxes to hold the ideas and draw arrows to connect the ideas that were forged in classroom lectures and conversations. It is for this reason that I loved Inspiration when I first saw it back in 1990. A great program to [...]
Today’s pick of a digital treasure comes from Utah State University. My own personal experiences and memories using cuisenaire rods in while in elementary school and watching our math teachers skillfully use a wide variety of manipulatives in the classroom over the past 14 years convince me that approach of teaching abstract concepts using concrete [...]
Did you ever receive an attachment or a file from someone that you could not open because you did not have the correct application loaded on your computer? Ever need to change the file format of a video or audio file so that you could import it into another application? If you have answered yes [...]
I was made aware of this tool from Tim Wilson in his blog, the Savvy Technologist – Assignment Calculator 2.0 Both students and adults have difficulty breaking down a long-range project into smaller, more discrete steps. However, using this new online tool developed by both the Minnesota Educational Media Organization (MEMO) and MINITEX, a program [...]
Vinnie Vrotny is the Director of Academic Technology at the North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, IL, where he has been involved in helping the school find new tools for the past 14 years. He is interesting in embedding (thanks Jeff Utecht) technology into the curriculum from Kindergarten through the High School.
Vinnie has been a frequent presenter at various conferences. He is a presenter at the upcoming K12 Online Conference where he is also serving as the Live Events Committee Chairman. He is also a spotlight presenter at the Illinois Technology Conference for Education (IL-TCE) in February 2008.
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