by Brian | Apr 14, 2007 | 1:1, Change, Education, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype
Will Richardson and Chris Lehmann have posts today about the $100 laptop program in Nigeria. I commented on Will’s blog that it reminded me a lot of what and why I’m doing a pilot 1:1 program in my own classroom with 7 year old iBook computers. The screens are...
by Brian | Apr 13, 2007 | 1:1, Blogging, Education, Inclusion, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Celest has not been feeling well for weeks now. The doctors have changed her chemo and apparently it is not sitting well with her. Thusly we have not had her “join†us via Skype on a very consistent basis lately : ( We decided today to send Celest a kind of...
by Brian | Apr 2, 2007 | 1:1, Blogging, Change, Education, Student Access, Technology
My fourth graders’ foray into the blogging world is now open. We are still discussing a name, so its current name is… “Name Goes Here” … which we laugh about, but we are trying (probably too hard) to come up with the perfect name. So...
by Brian | Mar 13, 2007 | 1:1, Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology, Web 2.0
Miguel started this conversation – Tom and Doug have jumped in … here are my ramblings: How important or “worth it†are laptops, or any other technology? How valuable they are as learning tools should be the decider of how much we are willing to invest....
by Brian | Mar 9, 2007 | 1:1, Change, Education, Student Access, Technology
On Their Own I know this may not seem like that big a deal to many, but for me this was a bit of a breakthrough. Last Monday morning I took my wife to the doctor for a check-up on her broken knee, so naturally I had a substitute teacher. The breakthrough was that...
by Brian | Feb 27, 2007 | 1:1, ActivBoard, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Update 2-28 / 10:30pm Link to my conference Wiki. This weekend is our state technology conference. Ian Jukes is the keynote speaker Saturday. From the conference website: The theme of this year’s conference, Technology: The Great Connector , suggests the wide...