by Brian | Mar 31, 2007 | Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Web 2.0
Ten days ago we had the opportunity to link up for an interview with the 8th grade students in Lee Baber’s class at YouthBridges in Virginia. The participants included Lee’s class, my class in Sparks, Nevada – Elderbob Brannan in Texas, and Celest (a student in...
by Brian | Mar 29, 2007 | Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, stopcyberbullying, Student Access, Technology
Click photo to see video “Don’t Laugh At Me” Four years ago my class of fourth graders was struggling. After almost every recess there was anger and tears about teasing and exclusion from games. We spent too much time in class dealing with these...
by Brian | Mar 24, 2007 | Change, Education, Inclusion, Technology, Web 2.0
Thanks to Vicki Davis and David Warlick I tried TeacherTube by uploading our “Inclusion” video there. It was viewed 30 times in about 30 minutes. As so many Web 2.0 applications it is free, easy to sign-up for, easy to use … but … is it blocked...
by Brian | Mar 23, 2007 | Digital Video, Inclusion, Technology
I don’t check my blog statistics very often, but after seeing some recent numbers on downloads of some popular videos – like Karl Fisch’s “Did You Know” (2 million + views) – I looked up the stats on our “Inclusion”...
by Brian | Mar 11, 2007 | Education, Inclusion, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Last week part of each my 3 presentations at The Nevada Education Technology Leadership Conference was about Skype audio and video-conferencing. So this week I got emails from a teacher in my district wondering how I bypassed school district filters to use it. To make...
by Brian | Feb 25, 2007 | Change, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Even though she doesn’t want any of the credit Wendy Damonte co-anchor from KTVN Channel 2 who reports this story made the contact with Renown Health that got Celest an iMac computer. The Children in Transition Program of Washoe County, Nevada, used grant money...
by Brian | Feb 19, 2007 | Change, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype
This week was the best yet for Skypeing Celest into class. Last week she Skyped-in a total of maybe an hour and a half (there are other issues besides leukemia I can’t share – think poverty and ALL that goes with that). But this week she spent all day Monday with...
by Brian | Feb 17, 2007 | Education, Inclusion, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Usually when I’m going to present I spend lots of time preparing and still feel like I could have spent more time and then it would have been even better. So it is ironic that Friday, when I was asked to present to my staff about more things they could do with their...
by Brian | Feb 7, 2007 | Change, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Student Access, Video Skype
Well, to say the least we’ve had quite the response to our Skype and video projects! Thanks to all that have commented and showed such great support of what we are trying to do. I was especially intrigued for another reason by this comment: AprilMJ Says: You’ve...
by Brian | Feb 5, 2007 | Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Project Based, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
My fourth graders have produced a 5 minute video that tells the story of how we Skyped a classmate that has leukemia into our classroom. To see the video click the YouTube video below:
