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 | Aug 21, 2018 | Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Making Connections With Blogging, Messy Learning, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Total Eclipse
A year ago today I was very fortunate to be part of a NASA sponsored team launching high altitude balloons in Idaho to record data about the total eclipse. Meantime back in northern Nevada where I work, thousands of students and members of the general public were...
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...
by Brian | Jan 28, 2016 | 1:1, Blogging, Change, Education, Grace Corrigan, Inclusion, Literacy, Making Connections With Blogging, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
I’ve seen numerous “tweets” today, on the 30th anniversary of the event, from people sharing where they were when they witnessed or heard about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. I was teaching 7th grade in Oakland, California, and our principal...
by Brian | Oct 21, 2015 | Blogging, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Making Connections With Blogging, Messy Learning, Podcast, Project Based, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Video Skype, Wikis
Over the years I’ve had the pleasure to work, via various social networking sites, with Kathy Cassidy, a teacher “of six year olds,” in Saskatchewan, Canada, according to her class blog. We’ve even met face to face at conferences. My class (4th...
by Brian | Aug 7, 2015 | Blogging, Education, Making Connections With Blogging, Messy Learning, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
When I’m asked what is the “biggest-bang-for-the-buck” technology learning tool for classroom use I still say blogging (so much so I co-wrote a book on blogging – see sidebar). Blogs can be writing and conversation, which by itself is awesome,...
