January 26, 2012 – 12:38 pm
Steve Jobs offered a new lifestyle. He gave us gifts that will change our lives. His products are beautifully designed, shiny and elegant, unique and powerful, pleasant to touch and pleasant to the eye. Each of his imaginative products become an adventurous journey through its unique features, offering us to employ unlimited creativity that he so [...]
January 20, 2012 – 2:10 pm
Every year at our festive Christmas brunch at Westgate Hotel we present to one of Platt College teachers an award “Teacher of the Year” . You may bid your guess for 2011! The accolades belong to a teacher who is effective in the classroom where he operates with bravado of his knowledge, charisma, dynamism and uniques teaching [...]
January 10, 2012 – 7:47 pm
TWO THOUSAND AND TWELVE! If you say slowly aloud the number two thousand and twelve it sounds poetic! It seems to offer a numeric beauty and elegance! I wonder how many times in the future we will repeat two thousand and twelve. Let us all try to make this year as memorable as we can for us [...]
December 22, 2011 – 8:46 pm
My blog illustrates happenings at Platt College. It is rare I share anything personal, but today I will. I want to introduce Vaclav Havel. He was the first democratic president in the Czech Republic after the fall of Communism, and a world’s freedom leader. It is him who has been for decades a public figure [...]
December 9, 2011 – 11:29 pm
It is Friday and our campus is quiet after five in the afternoon as it supposed to be. A week full a learning, creating, capturing leap of imagination, exams and presentations is over and all are off for the weekend. Not like last week when Platt College came alive till late with many lights, many [...]
December 7, 2011 – 11:59 am
It is a first Friday in December 2011 at Platt College campus. People move quicker than usual. Everyone runs around with something in hands: Christmas tree and ornaments, platters of food, red napkins, baskets of oranges and pretzels, musical instruments, microphones, red poinsettias….Other people transform our general education classes into enticing galleries. Shelves display the [...]
November 30, 2011 – 8:04 am
Our trip to China was incredible. Especially for learning about the rich history so remote to us, for admiring Chinese delicate art, for tasting real Chinese food, for listening to the Chinese people views about life, for a kick out of staring at thousands of fancy cars behaving totally disorganized on the highway, for visiting [...]
November 22, 2011 – 9:42 pm
Nothing makes me happier than to see our courtyard alive with season decoration, music and our students’ talk and laugh. Today we counted together our blessings and offered our gratitude. From the snippets of talk I caught and from what I read on the colored leaves the students pinned on strings we have plenty to [...]
November 1, 2011 – 10:13 pm
This is what we do at Platt: We try to balance our serious, uncompromising affairs in the classroom with fun, creativity and socializing outside of the classroom. Halloween celebration offers an opportunity to enjoy each others company, to have some cookies, cupcakes, hot cider but mainly to admire the leap of imagination! There are no [...]
September 30, 2011 – 4:52 pm
Dear travelers, Before long you will land in the faraway exotic country called China. You will visit the magical five hundred year old Forbidden City in the middle of Peking, you will stroll through The Bund, Shanghai charming river promenade, you will enjoy a walk on the Great Wall of China, you will get dizzy [...]
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