“The Why’s and Wherefores”
October 22, 2007
Brian Crosby, Sparks, Nevada, USA
Blog: http://www.learningismessy.com/blog/
Brian Crosby, an elementary teacher for 26 years, teaches fifth grade in Sparks, Nevada, and has infused technology into teaching since the 1980’s. While piloting a 1:1 laptop program,students in his class utilize many Web 2.0 tools including Skype, Fiickr, blogs and wikis. His award winning student produced
video about including a classmate has been downloaded thousands of times. Brian teaches several popular tech classes for teachers. You can try keeping up with him on his blog “Learning Is Messy” at http://www.learningismessy.com/blog/.
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Brian+Crosby
“The Why’s and Wherefores”
Description
Using what is happening in my classroom as a backdrop, we’ll endeavor to provide reasons, methods and rationale during our time here that support integration of 21st century tools in education. We will share a few tools and methods that you may not have access to, but much of what you will see is probably
Presentation
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/bcrosby.mp4
Original
http://k12online.wm.edu/bcrosby.mov
http://k12online.wm.edu/bcrosby_ lowres.mov
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/bcrosby.mp3
Yah a low res copy!
But starts with a head shot.
Each of his students has a laptop.
What do they use it for?
drill and practice, internet based keyboarding, obstacles turned into opportunities.
blogs- get feedback about their thinking, "I don't want to know what you know, I want to know what you think", write about understanding
if writing is an obstacle, use blogs
