The Fischbowl

Anne Smith and Maura Moritz's students will once again be discussing Little Brother with author and blogger Cory Doctorow. A differen...

Anne Smith is at it again, this time having her all boys' class Skype with students in South Korea . My all boys' class  was matc...

My sixth grade daughter came home with a social studies homework assignment this weekend: Research 10 Facts About Your Country (in her case,...

PBS has a great series titled The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers . A month or so ago the featured scientist was Mollie Woodworth , ...

Dean says it so well in his K12Online Preconference Keynote . This is worth 25 minutes of your time. Really. If learning shouldn't be...

IKEA is in the process of building a giant store about five miles from my school . This is no ordinary store construction, however, as they ...

Sometime this summer someone tweeted out this video from Emory University . It features Professor Skip Garibaldi talking about the math...

Does this sound familiar? Student: Mr. Fisch? Me: Yes? Student: When are we ever going to have to use this? Math teachers get this question ...

We had a fantastic session with Daniel Pink today. He was even better than he was the first two years (and the first two years he was very ...

Once again this year our students in Anne Smith and Maura Moritz 's English 9 Honors classes will be reading Daniel Pink 's A Whole...

In the fall some of our Business students had the opportunity to talk with Jason Shellen about entrepreneurship, starting a business, and ...

Well, the technology worked fairly well for our Skype discussion with Cory Doctorow today. The audio on Skype wasn't perfect, but we co...

Anne Smith ’s English Literature class recently discussed Act III of Hamlet with Debi Ohayon’s AP class. Not that unusual, perhaps, except ...

Maura Moritz's daughter just had her tonsils out. Being the good Mom that she is, she's staying home with her until she's feelin...

For anyone interested, here's the ustream archive of Jason Shellen speaking with our students that I blogged about previously . He start...

Carolyn Orf is one of our Business teachers and her students are learning about entrepreneurship and starting a business. Carolyn was intere...

Anne Smith has a nice post up about how she has students who are home sick Skyping into class in order to stay connected. What was really i...

I just wanted to quickly point to this post on the Skype blog about our students interviewing Cory Doctorow via Skype: The ninth grade st...

Today was the day our students Skyped with Cory Doctorow asking him about his book Little Brother . Overall, it went very well. He spent ab...

I just finished reading Steven Johnson’s The Invention of Air . It’s the story of Joseph Priestley ’s scientific discoveries, religious and ...