Tag: Lifelong Learning

  • cvillewiki – new encyclopedia of local government and our community

    Are you interested in land use, transportation, and community design? Now you can help build Charlottesville Tomorrow’s new wiki. Go to http://www.cvillepedia.org/mediawiki/ to get started. Charlottesville Tomorrow’s mission is to inform and engage the public by providing clear, non-partisan information and research on land use, transportation, and community design issues with the confidence an informed…

  • Always wanted to visit India? Sarthak’s blog is the next best thing.

    Photographer and Adobe Fireworks Engineer Sarthak Singhal has a beautiful blog named Sarthak | Explore.  Travel … Adventure … which features photos of his native India along with photos from other places he has visited.  Reading through the comments on his site make you feel like you are part of the  local scene.  Take a…

  • Creativity and Kindergarten – Lessons for Lifelong Learning

    Kindergarten used to be about play and stories and friends and sharing. More recently, it is about doing worksheets and preparing to take tests – i.e. it is becoming more like school. Maybe this is bad. Why can’t school be more like Kindergarten instead? Of course the next question I would like to pose, is…

  • FISH tutors are teaching kids to FISH

    “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”—Author unknown That is exactly what JABA’s FISH (Friends In Schools Helping) Program is all about. JABA (Jefferson Area Board for Aging), began the FISH Program as a way for seniors to…

  • The OLLI at U.Va. Fall 2009 Catalog is here!

    We are thrilled to be offering 54 courses, 30 of which are new!  We know you will find many courses that interest you and we suggest that you register early, since several courses typically fill during the first week of registration. Our Catalog and Editorial Committees constantly strive to improve our catalog.  For example, in…

  • Volunteer Opportunities at OLLI at U.Va.

    From the OLLI at U.Va. Email Newsletter, May 26, 2009: OLLI at U.Va. is indeed fortunate to have many of its original leaders still volunteering for OLLI.  They have worked long and hard the past eight years establishing a lifelong-learning institute in Charlottesville.  Their efforts have met with much success and present day OLLI members are benefiting greatly from their dedication.  Although these individuals intend to continue working for…