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 | Apr 2, 2009 | Video Skype
NOTE: If you were sent here by the KOLO TV web site – Here is a link to my students’ blogs. We traveled up north to Saskatchewan, Canada, today – via Skype, and besides the experience being documented in our blogs and some photos, a local TV...
by Brian | Jan 8, 2009 | Video Skype
Wow! You can’t set this up like this on purpose! I was just contacted about being part of a project that just might be the perfect way to engage with using Skype video-conferencing in your classroom. This project has been set-up by Silvia Tolisano via her blog...
by Brian | Jan 2, 2009 | Video Skype
If you are going to use video-conferencing in your classroom, it can’t just be to chat with someone. Back when Christian Long was an active Twitterer he said it like this: “It is NOT good enough to simply say, “My 2nd graders in Anytown, USA Skyped a...
by Brian | Oct 17, 2008 | Blogging, Video Skype, Web 2.0
A funny thing happened over the summer. My students became sixth graders! (and that can’t be good!) ; ) As we began the year and broke out the laptops I saw things happening that I didn’t like. Nothing horrendous mind you, but students checking their blogs...
by Brian | Jul 5, 2008 | Video Skype
After my presentation in the Blogger’s Cafe on video-conferencing, a woman in a hurry ran up to me and told me that she was from Singapore. She explained that she showed our “Inclusion” video to her administrators in Singapore, and as a result they...