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 25, 2007 | Change, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Even though she doesn’t want any of the credit Wendy Damonte co-anchor from KTVN Channel 2 who reports this story made the contact with Renown Health that got Celest an iMac computer. The Children in Transition Program of Washoe County, Nevada, used grant money...
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 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...
by Brian | Feb 17, 2007 | Education, Inclusion, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0
Usually when I’m going to present I spend lots of time preparing and still feel like I could have spent more time and then it would have been even better. So it is ironic that Friday, when I was asked to present to my staff about more things they could do with their...
