by Brian | Dec 26, 2006 | 1:1, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Email, Field Trips, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Skype, Web 2.0
The top 5 most read posts in my first 10 months blogging at Learning Is Messy: . . . 1) Paper, Pencils and Books May Not Boost Student Achievement 2) Too Much Time For Change To Happen? 3) Hoping To Make a “Web 2.0†Difference In A Child’s Life – Part...
by Brian | Dec 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
Analogies Practice So we used our laptops today to practice our multiplication facts online. Later we used them to work on our poems and journals that we began after our recent trip – we’ve been learning to illustrate them by accessing and inserting our...
by Brian | Sep 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
So the edbloggosphere has been on a every other month rant about the sorry lack of initiative by politicos, school boards, school administrators and others, to try new approaches in education. Well I’ll add to the chorus. You know how it works. During a six year...
by Brian | Jul 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
Mount Tallac One of the benefits to living in the Reno area is that Lake Tahoe is only 30 minutes from our house. We are not going on a formal “Vacation” this summer because we are saving for a trip next summer – so we got away to Tahoe for a few...
by Brian | Jun 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
llary52 left a comment on David Warlick’s 2 Cents Worth blog about the flexibility NCLB gives states in the way they assess students. NCLB allows all kinds of assessment – just not the assessments that are the most valuable for teachers and students to make...
by Brian | May 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
Just a thought. Who is going to work in the hot sun in the desert for low wages to build this fence between the U.S. and Mexico to keep the illegal migrant workers out? Umm??? Never mind.