The Simple Life: Three students of New Trier's Integrated Global Studies School on a quest to live simply.

Click here to enjoy the V-log of our 3 IGSS seniors experimenting with simplifying their life.

They are finding it hard to live a simple life.

Molly has been so unplugged from technology that she came to me for enjoyable reads to fill up all her new found free time. I gave her 2 books to "read over Spring break" but she finished them both prior to the start of Spring Break. She will be devouring many more.

Great Project!

The Definitive History of the Occupy Movement

NEW! Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Mar 21, 2012

Fault Lines tells the definitive history of Occupy Wall Street from its early days through the movement's rapid spread up to the brutal crackdown by state authorities.



This is extremely well done and worth the 24 minutes viewing time!

The Classics Academy

Another high school's approach to integrated curriculum and student's shaping curriculum:

"The Morristown High School Classics Academy program offers a unique, cross-curricular experience for seniors who wish to explore the deeply-seeded connections of ancient Greece and Rome both to western intellectual history and, more personally, to their own lives. Through the study of classical literature, history, mathematics, art, religion and philosophy, students learn to produce and consume new knowledge while synthesizing complex understandings of the human experience. Academy students conclude this year-long program by composing a final project that is presented and exhibited at the end of the year. " from YouTube

SOPA and PIPA explained by Clay Shirky

Shirky summarizes the evolution of online content law leading up to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). He tells how the two controversial bills were preceded by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and Audio Home Recording Act of 1992.

Shirky not only explains what SOPA and PIPA want to do, but also serves as a call to action for opponents of the legislation to preserve their ability to share, remix, and discuss.

Outsider Art: Just Watched the Documentary "Marwencol"

documentary storyline from IMDB:

"Marwencol" is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helps Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds of the attack. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly Mark's homemade therapy is deemed "art", forcing him to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he's avoided since the attack.

Recommended!

Old Food

Today we enjoyed sampling old food recipes cooked by Senior students. Here is a magazine about food items they created:

Open publication - Free publishing - More food

America: We Are What We Eat by Junior IGSSers

America: We Are What We Eat on Prezi

Edible Education: Food as Culture on the YouTube Education Channel

How to Use Google Search More Effectively [INFOGRAPHIC]

How to search Google using proper syntax:
How to Use Google Search More Effectively [INFOGRAPHIC]

Inside the Leviathan: Moby Dick Art Work Created by IGSS Seniors

Inside the Leviathan:  The Art of Moby Dick on Prezi

Environmental Costs of Oil

Which insights on the Environmental Costs of Oil best  illuminate the irrational quest for oil ?  What was surprising?

Ben L  ---   http://snack.to/5vIbBg

Margot --- http://snack.to/5L4T2H

Dan  ----    http://snack.to/oEgHhf

Allie  ---      http://snack.to/5Epkhf

 Please provide useful feedback to your classmates by November 18.

Corporate Oil Interests

Which insights on Corporate Oil Interests best  illuminate the irrational quest for oil ?  What was surprising?

Nora  ---         http://snack.to/ojEZAJ
Krista  ---   http://tinyurl.com/7brle97

Spencer--

 Kyle --         http://snack.to/5Lnw9W

Ilanah --    http://snack.to/5eZ6sb

Please provide useful feedback to your classmates by November 18.

Health Costs of Oil

Which insights on the Health Costs of Oil best  illuminate the irrational quest for oil ?  What was surprising?

Will R   --  http://snack.to/5LWwhf

Kamin --   http://snack.to/5v1DYR

Will C --    http://snack.to/5VOHhf

Victoria  --  http://snack.to/5xnbSp

Hannah  ---  http://snack.to/oXv13I

Please provide useful feedback to your classmates by November 18.

Implications of Alternative Energy

Which insights on Implications of Alternative Energy best  illuminate the irrational quest for oil ?  What was surprising?

Ben P --       http://snack.to/5ef8lC

Annalee --   http://snack.to/5Lf8lC

Dottie ---       http://snack.to/5Pnkt1

James --        http://snack.to/oaJzSp

Please provide useful feedback to your classmates by November 18.

Consumer Demand for Oil/Products

Which insights on Consumer Demand for Oil/Products most  illuminate the irrational quest for oil ?  What was surprising?

Sarah G -- http://snack.to/5L46Yz

Chris  -     http://snack.to/5y0wtf

Grant ---   http://snack.to/5V1H9W

Emmy --    http://snack.to/5yL13I

 Please provide useful feedback to your classmates by November 18.