by Brian | Dec 2, 2010 | 1:1, ActivBoard, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Literacy, Messy Learning, Podcast, Project Based, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
A few weeks ago, after many attempts trying to find a time we could all make, Mark and Shawn at The Tightwad Tech managed to coral Lisa Parisi and myself across timezones long enough to interview us about how we utilize a changed pedagogy utilizing tech (usually for...
by Brian | Oct 18, 2009 | ActivBoard
This is one of those posts that started out as a comment on someone else’s blog. Namely Wes Fryer’s post: “No, just having IWB’s does not make learning engaging” (IWB = Interactive Whiteboard) ActivBoard, Smartboard, Mimio, TeamBoard,...
by Brian | Dec 19, 2007 | ActivBoard, Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Besides video-Skyping today with new friends in Florida we started doing the real work of making a video about how we blog. Last Friday we started brainstorming all the steps we go through and then breaking it down into scenes. Next we assigned each group a different...
by Brian | Jun 19, 2007 | ActivBoard, Change, Education, Podcast, Project Based, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
After finishing up our second and last day of ActivBoard training today I was talking with Mark Skoff, our school district’s Technology Program Coordinator (translation: He gets a teacher’s salary and puts out every edtech fire in a district of 65,000 students)....
by Brian | Jun 18, 2007 | ActivBoard, Teacher Access, Technology
Monday and Tuesday this week I’m co-teaching an ActivBoard class with Doug Taylor. The participants in the class are all receiving new Promethean ActivBoards, projectors and HP laptops for their rooms. Many of the 40+ teachers involved in this 2 day training have...
by Brian | May 21, 2007 | 1:1, ActivBoard, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Grace Corrigan, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Podcast, Project Based, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
Women of Web 2.0, Cheryl Oakes, Jennifer Wagner, Sharon Peters, & Vicki Davis have asked me to be a guest tonight on their live webcast. On their web site they describe themselves as: “…four women who not only love using the tools of the Internet but...
