Not So Distant Future » Blogroll http://futura.edublogs.org technology, libraries, and schools Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:54:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 The view from L.A. http://futura.edublogs.org/2007/02/28/the-view-from-la/ http://futura.edublogs.org/2007/02/28/the-view-from-la/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:39:44 +0000 futura http://futura.edublogs.org/2007/02/28/the-view-from-la/ Yesterday we visited Harvard Westlake and attended a few classes as well.  Their campus is unbelievably beautiful, situated on top of a hill overlooking the city.

Their schedule is somewhat similar to ours, but they attend classes only four days.

One of the most striking things there was a beautiful art gallery, and they also use it to showcase a local artist often.   It convinced all of us even more of the value of having an art gallery.   The gallery also has a mounted flat screen for video art, which was a nice feature.  

The school offers a digital film course, and they gave us some dvds of their films.  They invite a different person from feature films to speak at the campus each year when the student projects are completed, which is another idea we could emulate.

They also did a wonderful job of portraying their school in their handouts, literary magazine, digital film festival, etc. There is much more that I want to share, but not enough time to write about it…so that will be my “school snapshot” for now.

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