Category: Lifelong Learning

  • 10 Steps to Lifelong Learning – Right Here in Charlottesville!

    We are so fortunate to have many, many opportunities for lifelong learning right here in the Charlottesville area! As I read through the post quoted below I thought about my venture into blogging for seniors.  Since I have an IT/Web background, I volunteered to sponsor an after-school computer club at Jackson-Via Elementary School.  Having read…

  • Wecome to the Blogosphere, SeniorScenes!!!

    I first learned about blogging last spring in order to be able to teach the kids in the after-school computer club that I sponsor about blogging as reflective writing. The more I learned about blogs, the more convinced I was that this would make a perfect activity for seniors. Keeping in touch with the world…

  • Lifelong Learning & Digital Literacy

    David Warlick blogs about digital literacy as it applies to k-12 education, but how true for everyone at every age that fluency requires practice – not just a class or two!  The best way to “become fluent in the broader and equally critical information and technology skills of being literate in a networked, digital, and…

  • Internet use ‘good for the brain’

    I have been an enthusiastic web proponent since my first webmaster job in 1996.   I had expected that the web would look like TV, and  it was a surprise to see that it was really just a lot of text files with just an occasional picture thrown in.  But what access to information!  I was…

  • A Day’s Outing – Find Events, Family Activities, Festivals, Gardens, Museums, Travel Destinations

    Looking for Outings in the Charlottesville area? A Day’s Outing may have just the information to help you plan a trip./ Virginia travel tale Crabtree Falls is the most beautiful waterfall hike in Virginia, located in Nelson County and in the George Washington National Forest. It is also the tallest waterfall east of the Mississippi.…

  • Jackson-Via PTO News Flash – Outdoor Learning Centers

    Outdoor Learning Centers at Jackson-Via Elementary School On October 29th, from 12:00 – 1:00 at the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC) on the Downtown Mall, local designers Reed Muehlman, Jessica Primm, Eugene Ryang, and Chris Woods, along with Jackson-Via staff, will present a Master Plan for Jackson-Via Elementary School’s Outdoor Learning Centers during a brown…