by Brian | May 8, 2007 | Change, Education, Literacy, Messy Learning
I received the following email today: “Please pass this along to anyone you know, this needs to get out in the open. Recently Marines over in Iraq supporting this country in OIF wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their...
by Brian | May 5, 2007 | 1:1, Change, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology, Web 2.0
Years ago I came up with an idea for a writing prompt that I felt was pretty “schema neutral“- all kids would have experience enough to be able to write a story about this prompt. I call it “A Day As Your Shoes.” Several years ago Corbett Harrison,...
by Brian | Mar 23, 2007 | Education, Literacy, Student Access
Doug Noon has 2 great posts – “Scientifically Based Reading Research Wars†and “The Might-Work Clearinghouse†that are way worth the time. Doug has done his research and does a great job of laying out the issues and the research behind the battle over...
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 | 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...
by Brian | Feb 18, 2007 | 1:1, ActivBoard, Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Messy Learning, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
I’m not sure I would say we are going about this the wrong way, but we are trying to do many new things this school year. I have used technology with students since the early 80’s – but usually that has been limited – one or two classroom computers. I have had...
