by Brian | Mar 31, 2007 | Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Web 2.0
Ten days ago we had the opportunity to link up for an interview with the 8th grade students in Lee Baber’s class at YouthBridges in Virginia. The participants included Lee’s class, my class in Sparks, Nevada – Elderbob Brannan in Texas, and Celest (a student in...
by Brian | Mar 21, 2007 | Education, Skypecast, Technology, Web 2.0
Lee Baber’s students from YouthBridges will be interviewing my students Thursday from J. Frank Hillyard Middle School in Virginia. We’ll be using Skype and may be joined by others from various locales. They’ll turn this into a podcast – I’ll let you know...
by Brian | Mar 11, 2007 | Education, Inclusion, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Last week part of each my 3 presentations at The Nevada Education Technology Leadership Conference was about Skype audio and video-conferencing. So this week I got emails from a teacher in my district wondering how I bypassed school district filters to use it. To make...
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 19, 2007 | Change, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype
This week was the best yet for Skypeing Celest into class. Last week she Skyped-in a total of maybe an hour and a half (there are other issues besides leukemia I can’t share – think poverty and ALL that goes with that). But this week she spent all day Monday with...
by Brian | Feb 5, 2007 | Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Project Based, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
My fourth graders have produced a 5 minute video that tells the story of how we Skyped a classmate that has leukemia into our classroom. To see the video click the YouTube video below:
