Saturday, December 20, 2008

Re: Disrupting Class Virtual School

Fred and Peter,

Thank you for creating these exercises. I will drop in occasionally over the
break for the intellectual challenge.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Fred Bartels
<fred_bartels@rcds.rye.ny.us>wrote:

> Yin and Yang.
>
> This is the Yin to Peter Gow's post yesterday titled "Disrupting Class
> Virtual School." (see below)
>
> Yesterday Peter created a wiki focused on envisioning a bricks & mortar
> independent school circa 2019.
>
> I've created a wiki called Virtual Disrupting Academy focused on
> envisioning a collaborative non-profit virtual "school" for providing
> online learning opportunities to students at independent schools.
>
> The url is: http://sites.google.com/site/virtualdisruptingacademy/
>
> So when you need a little break from the holiday break, to quote Peter ...
> "Please feel free to explore the site and mess around with the very sparse
> seed content I have put up to get things going."
>
> Happy holidays,
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
> >OK, not so much a virtual school, but a speculative one:
> >
> >At http://disruptedacademy.wikispaces.com/ you will find a wiki set up as
> >the website of an imaginary c. 2018 school--Disrupted Academy--based on
> >the ideas in DISRUPTING CLASS by Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and
> >Curtis Johnson.
> >
> >Please feel free to explore the site and mess around with the very sparse
> >seed content I have put up to get things going.
> >
> >Snowy afternoons at home are wonderful! I guess this is sort of a holiday
> >gift.
> >
> >Cheers--Peter Gow
> >
> >
> >
> >Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
> >Beaver Country Day School
> >791 Hammond Street
> >Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
> >www.bcdschool.org
> >Tel. 617-738-2755
> >FAX 617-738-2701
> >Skype: petergow3
> >
> >
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