Open Blackboard

I find that my students often have a superficial understanding of aspects of how computers work that persists even after they've been ex...

5th graders together in the Mars sim  one pair of students Skyped in to the class from a different part of the building because one has a b...

Our Mars simulation was a big success this week. With the technical glitches and hurdles smoothed out, the students and I could focus on th...

 A year ago our school took a giant step for 5th grade girls by sending them into our OpenSimulator Mars crater sim to find meteorite samp...

The hall of small. The hall itself was designed and built by a student! I wrote about kids imagining things so small they can't se...

7th graders are creating 3D cell models with an interface they've never seen before.  I imagine it would be an exciting time to be a...

Futuristic buses in Beijing Working In-World We just wrapped up an amazing four-day workshop on design and engineering of public spac...

I told the science and English/history teachers I work with about these two new apps from GoogleLabs. Now I imagine they are spending their ...

 My 7th grade students are building models of microscopic things they are studying in science class in our sim. The science teachers said th...

I know, silly title. Here’s my main question: Are virtual worlds effective environments for the presentation of dramatic arts? Maybe some ge...