Vinnie+Vrotny

**Vinnie Vrotny Director of Academic Technology North Shore Country Day School phone: 847-881-8800 email: vvrotny@nscds.org blog:** **[|Multi-faceted Refractions]**

[|Archive to Vinnie's presentation]

=Telling A New Story: Collaborating with Students (and Teachers as Students) to Develop Their Digital Voice=


 * Back Story- Where is North Shore and Why Does the Environment and Culture Lend Itself to Explorations Such as These**


 * Conflict -** **Tension between Skills and Global Connections and Collaboration**

**Upper School** **- Junior Experience**
Background - [|Reflections on Reflections: Creating a Movie From Still Images and Sound] Class Wiki Sites: [|US History] and [|AP US History]**
 * United State History and AP United State History - Collaboration with Kevin Randolph

Background - [|How Three Cups of Tea Changed My Life]** (blog posting) [|Indeed We Read] - to be developed as an interactive book review site to promote literacy, using Drupal Kilimanjaro English Nursery School Site - Word Press Blog
 * English 11 - A Service Learning and Junior Research Project Collaboration with [|Kathy McHugh]
 * Class Moodle Site: [|English 11]** (to view the class for a limited time, use username wandm and password wandm)
 * Other Web Sites** (in various states of construction)

Middle School - Global Awareness Advisory Unit
Blog - [|Real Lives Reflections]**
 * Real Lives Simulation Software ([|you can download a free trial])**
 * Google Earth - Getting a Sense of it all

Lower School - Mayan Culture

 * Google Sketchup** - Mayan Village

Conclusion - The Challenges

 * Background - [|How to Create Global Collaboration and Once Connected, What do we Do?]** (blog posting)

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach for inviting me to share our story
 * Special Thanks to:**

Mike Peccia, Lori Brennan, and Leo Roth - for assisting me in making sure everything worked (connectivity and other technical issues) as smoothly as possible

Tom Doar (Head of School), Dave Potter (Upper School Head), LaVina Lowery (Middle School Head), and Pam Whalley (Lower School Head) for providing the educational leadership and administrative support for teachers to revise and develop new curricular units.

The faculty and students at North Shore, who are willing to go down "the road less taken".

Google Earth Google Sketchup Google Docs Microsoft PhotoStory 3 Inspiration v8 Audacity Word Press Moodle Drupal Wikis
 * Applications Used Demonstrated and Used for this presentation**