by Brian | May 30, 2007 | 1:1, Digital Video, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology, Web 2.0, Wikis
Nine years ago 2 of my sixth graders and I testified in front of the Nevada State Assembly Education Committee about how well using technology to enhance their learning had worked. At the time we had 7 Power Macs in our classroom running Netscape 3.0. We had made a...
by Brian | May 29, 2007 | Change, Education, Inclusion, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
Last Tuesday a reporter from the local paper came to spend 45 minutes to do a story about how we Skyped Celest into class, but now-she-was-able-to-return-and-she-knew-how-things-worked-in-our classroom-because-she-had-been-here-via-Skype. Two hours and 45 minutes...
by Brian | May 25, 2007 | Blogging, Change, Technology, Web 2.0
My Superintendent has decided he MIGHT want to start a blog and he would like “…advice on do’s and don’ts and pitfalls to avoid.†This is a district of over 65,000 students K-12. Any blogging superintendents or principals out there have any advice or...
by Brian | May 21, 2007 | 1:1, ActivBoard, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Grace Corrigan, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Podcast, Project Based, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
Women of Web 2.0, Cheryl Oakes, Jennifer Wagner, Sharon Peters, & Vicki Davis have asked me to be a guest tonight on their live webcast. On their web site they describe themselves as: “…four women who not only love using the tools of the Internet but...
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...
by Brian | May 13, 2007 | 1:1, Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Podcast, Skypecast, Student Access, Technology, Video Skype, Web 2.0, Wikis
We read all the time about how cost is one of the disincentives to technology in schools, and certainly I don’t know if my current experience is anywhere near what does or would usually be the case, but I left this as a comment on Tom Hoffman’s blog and thought it...
