by Brian | Apr 25, 2006 | Blogging, Education, Literacy, Student Access, Technology
You have a toddler at home. The street in front of your house could be dangerous. They could get hit by a car or picked up by a stranger. You’ve seen news stories about it on TV… in the paper … kids injured and kidnapped and killed in the street. Maybe it would...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2006 | Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Project Based, Technology
View the video of our Mars Creatures discussed below. After going over some of the basics on space travel, facts about the solar system, and some lessons on the unimaginable distances in space – one of the first activities I have students do is designing a...
by Brian | Apr 8, 2006 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Email, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Doug Johnson over at The Blue Skunk Blog made me write this post in response to this: Questions that come from the dark side of the force… Why should a teacher be given any more latitude to be “creative” with a computer than an accountant? Why should...
by Brian | Apr 7, 2006 | Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
There’s a lot more to do, but at least I finally got some of our “Messy” work archived on our Learning is Messy web site. I have a backlog of video work to add as yet – 4 more geology videos – several Community Service / Public Service...
by Brian | Apr 5, 2006 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Let’s face it, one of the biggest obstacles for elementary school teachers to overcome to feel safe teaching and doing much outside of language and math instruction, is the notion that students have to have mastered those subjects to be successful in school and in...
by Brian | Apr 3, 2006 | Digital Video, Education, Email, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
At the same time we are working on our trip to Mars (see below) we are making a digital video about stickleback fish fossils. About 35 miles east of Reno is a tiny town called Hazen, Nevada. Hazen is one of those places you miss on the highway if you blink while going...
