I am the Director of Academic Technology at the North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, IL.
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One of the most transformative conferences for me, over the past two years, is the K12 Online Conference (k12onlineconference.org). It began last Monday, with the posting of the Stephen Heppell’s keynote conversation, “It isn’t the 20th Century Anymore, So Why Should We Teach Like As Though it Was“. Some of you heard refered to as [...]
One of the tools that I have and enjoyed is Inspiration. I have used this product since 1989, when a forward thinking local school system purchased it for its teachers and I had to train them on how to use it. I have always been a visual thinker, which is one of the reasons that [...]
Do you want to take the leap into a personal learning network, but not sure which one is right for you? Why don’t you think about joining an online book group. There are two that I would like to highlight for you. The first can be found at Teacher Places Book Clubs. In the past, [...]
From the Google Teacher Newsletter: All around Google (and all around the world), there is buzz which is quickly turning into a roar about this November’s election. Google has teamed up with the National Student/Parent Mock Election to get students of all ages as excited as we are about the November U.S. elections by bringing [...]
The Northern Illinois Computer Educators (NICE) are hosting their first meeting of the year on Tuesday, September 23, 2008. The meeting will be held from 4:30 to 7:00 pm (Dinner from 4:30 – 5:15 ish , Presentation 5:15 – 6:30 ish) at Lyon Elementary School in Glenview, IL. Lyon is located at the corner of [...]
The University School of Milwaukee is hosting a conference, the Next Generation Teaching and Learning Conference, on Monday, October 13th from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on their lovely campus. The conference will be keynoted by Alan November (novemberlearning.com). I do not know the topic of his keynote on this day, but in the past, [...]
I am highlighting a group of tools that I have found on a blog post by Richard MacManus, who writes a blog called the Read/Write Web. In a a post called the top Spanish Web 2.0 Apps from August 2006, he highlights the following applications which I think may have application in our classrooms: Tagzania [...]
One of the highlights that I have listened to at the K12 Online Conference is a presentation by LizKolb on the use of cell phones as data acquisition tools in the classroom. Two of the new tools that she highlighted were Gabcast and GCast. After setting up accounts at each site, they allow you to [...]
If you want to share various documents with students, you have to be concerned whether or not the students will have the application and the correct version of the software that you used to create the document. This is especially important when sharing SMARTBoard notes or tablet inkings on Moodle or with others via email. [...]
The K12 Online conference kicked off today with the posting of the Pre-Conference Keynote by David Warlick. There is both an audio and a video component of the presentation. ( http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=144). On Monday and Tuesday, there is a live chat that you can participate in ( http://davidwarlick.com/k12onlinekeynote_chat/signin.php ) and on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m., there [...]
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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