by Brian | May 2, 2009 | Literacy, Technology, Uncategorized
My school, which was built on the cheap in the early sixties, is about to get a major overhaul this summer. Part of that is going to include a new state-of-the-art wireless internet system. That’s great news. However (don’t you hate howevers?), I’ve...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2009 | Literacy
I shared a Reading / Writing lesson a few weeks back and for several reasons I decided to do a bit of an update post. For one it has ended up being a great addition to the “Free Reading” program I have been trying out in my classroom. Like Doug Noon, I too...
by Brian | Nov 26, 2008 | Literacy
As my students were writing today about yesterday’s experience with Alan, I caught several misconceptions students had about what we had learned. One student explained, for example, that the reason Iceland isn’t as cold as one would think, based on how far...
by Brian | Dec 19, 2007 | ActivBoard, Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Besides video-Skyping today with new friends in Florida we started doing the real work of making a video about how we blog. Last Friday we started brainstorming all the steps we go through and then breaking it down into scenes. Next we assigned each group a different...
by Brian | Oct 31, 2007 | Literacy
I’m currently teaching a 15 hour class combining writing, field trips and web 2.0 apps to teachers mainly from my school district. Under pressure to come up with a title for the class a few years ago I said to someone on the phone … “Uh … I...
by Brian | May 19, 2007 | Blogging, Change, Education, Inclusion, Literacy, Student Access, Technology, Web 2.0
One of the tough things about teaching at an “At Risk†school is the turnover. In the last 4 weeks we gained a new non-English speaking student and lost 3 (almost 4) students. I’m rolling my current class to fifth grade next year and came to realize yesterday...
