by Brian | Sep 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
INS agents raided all the McDonald’s in the greater Reno area today and arrested numerous employees for being in the country illegally. At my school a number of parents came and removed their kids from school so that police would not come and get them – or...
by Brian | Sep 26, 2007 | Technology
Click on the image above to get a page size printable flyer to put up at your school or place of employment. Also note the conference web site: http://www.k12onlineconference.org/ As the flyer states … the conference is FREE, Flexible (participate when you have...
by Brian | Sep 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Just made my first post over at “In Practice.” A group of us that teach in Title 1 schools (children of poverty) have started it up, mainly thanks to Alice Mercer who set the blog up and kept on those of us that expressed interest to follow through. From...
by Brian | Sep 13, 2007 | Blogging
Each new school year one of the routines is to get signed releases on all my students so that work they do on web pages, wikis, videos, blogs and so on, can be published. This year the releases came back pretty quickly … except for 4 students. Excuses ranged...
by Brian | Sep 11, 2007 | Education
As both an introduction “Getting To Know You” piece … and a way to introduce simple computer skills (download a photo, word process and print) and introduce project skills (cutting, trimming, using glue) – my fifth graders did this...
by Brian | Sep 3, 2007 | Brian Crosby
I’ve been off the grid this Labor Day Weekend camping 2 hours south of Reno in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains near Silver Lake. Friday night I got up about 1am to walk our fidgety, demanding Australian Shepherd. No big deal, found a good spot for a dog to...
