by Brian | Oct 21, 2021 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Education, Messy Learning
June 24, 2020, that is the last time I posted here. Well over a year ago! That was not the plan. That date happens to coincide with the fact that after 32 years as a classroom teacher (mostly upper elementary and middle school grades) and 8 years as the “STEM Learning...
by Brian | Jun 3, 2020 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Education, Project Based, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
Last week James Kapptie, a middle and high school tech trainer in Wyoming, contacted me about having a conversation on his blog about connecting students during this time. He posted the conversation we collaborated on through a Google Doc on his blog Our Children Are...
by Brian | Dec 7, 2018 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Education, Making Connections With Blogging, Messy Learning, Podcast, Reform, Skypecast, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Video Skype
Dean Shareski posted this to Twitter (SM = Social Media): Read the thread of comments (it’s worth a minute or 2) by following the link. I’ve written a bit about this before, and ironically that post from 8 years ago also involved Dean (Who’da...
by Brian | Oct 3, 2017 | Brian Crosby, Education, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access
My flight on SOFIA went off last Monday, but not without a few hiccups. During our mission briefing before the flight, it was explained that our flight path, originally scheduled to head up into Canada, was now headed out near Hawaii. I’m not clear on all the...
by Brian | Sep 17, 2017 | Brian Crosby, Education, High altitude ballooning, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access
A few weeks back I travelled with a NASA sponsored team to Idaho to launch high altitude balloons during the recent total eclipse. We sent up various cameras, data recorders and more (even an Idaho potato) to record data and media at high altitude during totality...
by Brian | May 8, 2017 | Brian Crosby, Coding, Cooperative Learning, Education, Making Connections With Blogging, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
Earlier this year I agreed to lead two grant funded STEM professional development courses for teachers sponsored by Metairie Park Country Day School, June 7th, 8th and 9th, 2017. The courses will be held at Tulane University in New Orleans as part of the 2017 Math...
