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Gordon Jack was a Fulbright award recipient who conducted a visual correspondence project between students in California and Argentina in 2010. The project had 64 American students exchange self-portrait photos with students from 5 schools in Buenos Aires and one in Bariloco. They discussed the symbolic meaning of the photos online. Challenges included different academic calendars and some Argentine students' limited access to photography instruction. However, the project fostered deeper cultural understanding between the youth.Mvhs library orientationforweb
Mvhs library orientationforwebMountain View Los Altos High School District
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1) The library orientation provides an overview of the library's resources and services, including the librarians, library guidelines, check-outs, and computer and printing services.
2) Students are informed about the library's databases and how to access online resources using their username and password.
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Rw workshop talkMountain View Los Altos High School District
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The passage discusses deep reading as a meditative act that involves fully engaging one's attention with the inward flow of words, ideas, and emotions from a book. It notes that deep reading requires disengaging from external stimuli to immerse oneself in the text. The author contrasts this with more shallow engagement with words that is common on the internet.World lit take action presentation
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This document discusses social isolation among teens and how technology can contribute to the problem. It suggests that socially isolated teens on a campus could be helped by connecting them with others and encouraging them to engage in real social interactions rather than staying online.Gale and diigo
Gale and diigoMountain View Los Altos High School District
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The user bookmarked a link from a database in Diigo but cannot access the full article. The document recommends logging into the database through the library website and trying the link again. If still unsuccessful, the user should edit the Diigo link, scroll to the end of the URL, copy the document ID number, change "DocumentID" to "Document Number", and paste the ID in the correct field to access the full article.Senior project brainstorm 2014
Senior project brainstorm 2014Mountain View Los Altos High School District
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This document provides guidance for students on brainstorming and selecting ideas for a senior project. It emphasizes turning off inner criticism to boost creativity, collaborating with others, exploring interests and passions, and finding inspiration from other sources. Students are instructed to generate many ideas quickly through divergent thinking and then narrow their focus to the five most viable options by asking questions. The overall goal is for students to leave with genuine enthusiasm for several potential senior project topics.Concussion slideshow
Concussion slideshowMountain View Los Altos High School District
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This document provides information about concussions, including common terms, symptoms, effects on the brain, risks in various sports, and guidelines for treatment and return to play. It notes that an estimated 1.6 to 3.8 million concussions occur each year in the US, with football posing the highest risk for males and soccer for females. Common symptoms include headache, dizziness, and confusion. The document recommends immediate removal from play for any athlete showing concussion symptoms and a gradual return to school and sports activities.Senior project craff parts 1 and 2
Senior project craff parts 1 and 2Mountain View Los Altos High School District
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This document provides guidance for brainstorming senior project ideas. It encourages students to turn off their inner critic and let their creative side play in order to generate many ideas without judgment. Some tips include limiting brainstorming time to 20 minutes and coming up with 50 ideas, recording ideas on sticky notes or mind maps, collaborating with others, and making lists of interests to find inspiration. The document emphasizes being enthusiastic and having fun during the brainstorming process in order to come up with viable senior project options.Senior project narrow topic
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This document provides guidance on how to narrow down a topic for a senior project. It discusses developing a central question by brainstorming the parts of the topic and how they relate. Examples are provided for the topic of vegans. Readers are prompted to write their own questions about the subparts and larger systems related to their topic. The document also discusses categorizing a topic, comparing it to similar topics, and how a topic may have changed over time as part of a larger history. It encourages speculative and evaluative questions and provides criteria for what makes a good question. Overall, the document aims to help readers focus their broad topic by identifying specific aspects and angles to explore.Senior project craff 1
Senior project craff 1Mountain View Los Altos High School District
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This document provides an overview of concepts related to senior projects, research, and group activities. It discusses the differences between focusing on being smart versus being scholarly, playing it safe versus taking risks, and knowing answers versus asking the right questions. It also includes sample topics, questions, and activities around analyzing magazine articles and prioritizing questions by relevance. The document offers guidance on identifying key elements of research and addressing why arguments matter in presentations.Avid college presentation
Avid college presentationMountain View Los Altos High School District
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Claremont McKenna College was founded in 1946 as a men's college and became coeducational in 1976. It has around 1,300 undergraduate students and is located on a 69 acre campus 35 miles east of Los Angeles. The presentation emphasizes using visual elements in PowerPoint, such as compelling photographs and videos, and keeping slides concise with 10 words or less. It also provides tips for an effective presentation structure and cites sources.Mvhs library orientation
Mvhs library orientationMountain View Los Altos High School District
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This library presentation provides an overview of the resources and guidelines for the school library. It introduces the librarians, Mr. Jack and Mrs. Sedillo, and covers basic library organization. Library guidelines regarding food, drinks, phone use, computer use, and checkouts are explained. The presentation also describes how to search the card catalog and databases, make copies, and find information both physically in the library and online through the library's website. Students are encouraged to ask the librarians if they need any help utilizing the resources.Lit Crit Research
Lit Crit ResearchMountain View Los Altos High School District
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This document discusses Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises and reviews of it. It provides a literary review from The Cincinnati Inquirer that calls the book one that "begins nowhere and ends in nothing". A review from Hemingway's friend John Dos Passos is also included, questioning American writing. Literary criticism is discussed as being written later to understand the work more fully, such as noting psychiatric disorders in Hemingway women characters. Sources of literary criticism are also mentioned.Freestyle senior project research
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The document provides tips for narrowing down a research topic by asking questions to explore different aspects and categories of the topic. It suggests generating questions to learn more about subtopics, how the topic relates to larger systems or histories, and comparing/contrasting different types of the topic. Sample questions are given about the topic of vegans to illustrate how to narrow a broad topic through questioning.Focusing research topic
Focusing research topicMountain View Los Altos High School District
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The document provides guidance to a student on how to focus their research topic about vegans by generating specific research questions. It demonstrates how to brainstorm questions about the subtopics, larger systems, categories, changes over time, history, evaluations, and hypothetical scenarios related to vegans. The student is then prompted to organize their questions and identify ones for reference sources, debates, and personal interest. The document emphasizes that narrowing the topic leads to more targeted research results from library databases rather than broad searches on Google.Topic brainstorming
Topic brainstormingMountain View Los Altos High School District
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The document provides advice on brainstorming topics for a research paper. It recommends silencing the inner critic by limiting brainstorming time to 20 minutes and recording ideas on sticky notes without overthinking. The document also suggests looking to the library for inspiration, noting they have a variety of magazines on different topics from news to science to photography as well as academic databases. The assignment is to produce evidence of brainstorming, summarize a current magazine article on an interesting topic, and summarize a database article on another topic.visual correspondence project
visual correspondence projectMountain View Los Altos High School District
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1. Bridging the gap between students' need for immediacy as "digital natives" and the reflective thinking required for intercultural exchange.
2. Aligning the project timeline given the different academic calendars in U.S. and Argentina.
3. Integrating the project into existing curriculum at participating schools in both countries.
4. Ensuring Argentine students have adequate instruction in photography to fully participate.
5. Making the Ning website intuitive and user-friendly for participants.
Correspondencias visualesMountain View Los Altos High School District
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Este documento describe un programa educativo llamado Freestyle Academy que enseña a los estudiantes habilidades del siglo 21 a través de proyectos interdisciplinarios centrados en las artes y la tecnologÃa. Los estudiantes completan proyectos de narración como cuentos, pelÃculas y podcasts. El programa busca desarrollar las habilidades comunicativas de los estudiantes a través de aprendizaje personalizado y estudios interdisciplinarios.More Related Content
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This document provides an overview of concepts related to senior projects, research, and group activities. It discusses the differences between focusing on being smart versus being scholarly, playing it safe versus taking risks, and knowing answers versus asking the right questions. It also includes sample topics, questions, and activities around analyzing magazine articles and prioritizing questions by relevance. The document offers guidance on identifying key elements of research and addressing why arguments matter in presentations.Avid college presentation
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This library presentation provides an overview of the resources and guidelines for the school library. It introduces the librarians, Mr. Jack and Mrs. Sedillo, and covers basic library organization. Library guidelines regarding food, drinks, phone use, computer use, and checkouts are explained. The presentation also describes how to search the card catalog and databases, make copies, and find information both physically in the library and online through the library's website. Students are encouraged to ask the librarians if they need any help utilizing the resources.Lit Crit Research
Lit Crit ResearchMountain View Los Altos High School District
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This document discusses Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises and reviews of it. It provides a literary review from The Cincinnati Inquirer that calls the book one that "begins nowhere and ends in nothing". A review from Hemingway's friend John Dos Passos is also included, questioning American writing. Literary criticism is discussed as being written later to understand the work more fully, such as noting psychiatric disorders in Hemingway women characters. Sources of literary criticism are also mentioned.Freestyle senior project research
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The document provides tips for narrowing down a research topic by asking questions to explore different aspects and categories of the topic. It suggests generating questions to learn more about subtopics, how the topic relates to larger systems or histories, and comparing/contrasting different types of the topic. Sample questions are given about the topic of vegans to illustrate how to narrow a broad topic through questioning.Focusing research topic
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The document provides guidance to a student on how to focus their research topic about vegans by generating specific research questions. It demonstrates how to brainstorm questions about the subtopics, larger systems, categories, changes over time, history, evaluations, and hypothetical scenarios related to vegans. The student is then prompted to organize their questions and identify ones for reference sources, debates, and personal interest. The document emphasizes that narrowing the topic leads to more targeted research results from library databases rather than broad searches on Google.Topic brainstorming
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The document provides advice on brainstorming topics for a research paper. It recommends silencing the inner critic by limiting brainstorming time to 20 minutes and recording ideas on sticky notes without overthinking. The document also suggests looking to the library for inspiration, noting they have a variety of magazines on different topics from news to science to photography as well as academic databases. The assignment is to produce evidence of brainstorming, summarize a current magazine article on an interesting topic, and summarize a database article on another topic.visual correspondence project
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1. Bridging the gap between students' need for immediacy as "digital natives" and the reflective thinking required for intercultural exchange.
2. Aligning the project timeline given the different academic calendars in U.S. and Argentina.
3. Integrating the project into existing curriculum at participating schools in both countries.
4. Ensuring Argentine students have adequate instruction in photography to fully participate.
5. Making the Ning website intuitive and user-friendly for participants.Correspondencias visualesMountain View Los Altos High School District
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Este documento describe un programa educativo llamado Freestyle Academy que enseña a los estudiantes habilidades del siglo 21 a través de proyectos interdisciplinarios centrados en las artes y la tecnologÃa. Los estudiantes completan proyectos de narración como cuentos, pelÃculas y podcasts. El programa busca desarrollar las habilidades comunicativas de los estudiantes a través de aprendizaje personalizado y estudios interdisciplinarios.