Brian Crosby, an upper elementary teacher for 29 years, guides the learning in a model technology classroom in Sparks, Nevada. Coming from a background in outdoor education and educational technology, Brian fuses his “at risk†students’ use of technology with field trips, art, hands-on activities and a problem-based approach, to build their schema of the world while at once connecting them to it.
Brian’s students are acclaimed for the “community service” projects they accomplish and he espouses, believing that if children are seen as the valuable public resource they are, while they do important work and learning, society will be more willing to invest in them.
Building a wiki web site to leverage the learning at a local animal park, developing an advertising campaign for a non-profit that recycles bicycles, producing award winning public service announcements about diversity and bullying, including a classmate with leukemia utilizing video-conferencing and then producing an award winning videoteaching others how to follow their lead, are just some examples.
Contact info: learningismessy(at)gmail.com
Presentations:
TEDxDenver ED “Back To The Future?” – Summer 2010
Keynote Speaker K12 Online Conference 2007
Presenter K12 Online Conference 2008 – “Video-Conferencing, It’s Easy, Free and Powerful”
Presenter National Education Computing Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2008
Featured Presenter Learning 2.008 Conference, Shanghai, China, 2008
Presenter National Science Teachers Convention, San Diego, California, 2003
Presenter Nevada State Technology Conference, Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
Presenter Nevada Association of School Counselors Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008
Author:
Video conferencing, web 2.0 apps help distance learners feel included, eSchool News, March 25, 2008, by Brian Crosby
Co-Author: “ Making across the country feel like across the classroom,” Google Docs Blog, May 2008
Articles About:
Educational Leadership, A Digital Bridge to Homebound Students, Pages 92-93, December 2009/ January 2010 / Volume 64 / Number 4 by William M. Ferriter
Reno Magazine, Cover Story, The Visionaries: Interactive Education, Pages 56, 57Â September 2008, by Scott Mortimore
Show and Tell, T.H.E Journal, May 2008, by Matt Bolch
Mind The Gap, NEA Today Magazine, March 2008, by Cindy Long
Promethean Planet “Teacher Feature” Teacher of the Month.
Washoe County School District Educator Brian Crosby Recognized on Promethean Planet, March 2008, by Ian Bryan Promethean Planet Link
Teachers At Work, Energize Your Classroom, Visual Thesaurus, September 2006,
Awards:
The 2008 SIGTel Online Learning Award
Apple iLife Award, 2003, Video: Don’t Laugh At Me
Lumiere Film Festival Winner 2003, 2004
Reno Film Festival Winner 2003
WCTA Distinguished Teacher
Washoe County School District Science Cadre
Webmaster: www.learningismessy.com, and www.learnthegreatbasin.net
Contact info: learningismessy(at)gmail.com
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