by Brian | Apr 29, 2011 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Education, Field Trips, Messy Learning, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Video Skype
What if you come for a shuttle launch and the shuttle doesn’t launch? A waste of time? Hardly. My trip made people where I’m from more aware of the what school could become. Our local paper did a short article, and although I was supposed to Skype in an...
by Brian | Apr 27, 2011 | Brian Crosby, Education, Field Trips, Messy Learning, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
I’m writing quickly from the airport in Salt Lake City, Utah. I’m soon to catch the second in a trilogy of flights that will end in Orlando, Florida, at 6:00am Thursday morning (how much sleep will I get???), and from there I will rush out to Cape...
by Brian | Mar 26, 2011 | 1:1, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Grace Corrigan, Inclusion, Literacy, Messy Learning, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, TEDxNYED, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
Several weeks ago I had the honor of taking the stage on the 40th floor of 7 World Trade Center in New York to participate in TEDxNYED, “… an all-day conference focusing on empowering innovation in education, … being held in New York City on...
by Brian | Mar 24, 2011 | 1:1, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Grace Corrigan, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Skypecast, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Video Skype, Web 2.0
In my last post I shared that I have this fantastic opportunity to watch the Space Shuttle Endeavour launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida next month. One of the ways this new pedagogy changes things is in how my students can be included in my trip. If I...
by Brian | May 22, 2009 | 1:1, Blogging, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
We still have a few minor loose ends to finish up, but today we finally can say we have completed our Reno Bike Project, project. Amazing what we got done when we got some consistent time to work the last two weeks (although we took three required assessment tests...
by Brian | Nov 11, 2007 | Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology, Web 2.0, Wikis
Here in the Reno, Nevada, area have a fantastic resource for studying animals, namely Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary. I learned about Animal Ark in 1993 when I first taught in a classroom here. I had the good fortune of having a student in my class whose parents train...
