Making Learning Visible
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Using the Cricut Vinyl Cutter

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Upper School art teacher Nicole Stone offered a workshop during ecobash to help students create vinyl stickers for their reusable water bott...

Scratch

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Middle School math teacher Camilla Lau brought the Scratch programming interface into her curriculum this year by way of a launch grant. Fol...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

English Meets Maker

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Our English classes have been reading "A Raisin in the Sun." To better project the work being done, the students are creating visu...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

MS Students Making Puzzles

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Puzzles ... with the laser cutter students are able to make their own puzzles. This one details statements about autism. It was created from...

Ceramics Students Making Stencils

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From the new Glowforge laser cutter to soap dish in no time! We design patterns on the computer, but them with the laser cutter and then mak...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

US French Students Create Audio Gallery Using Vocaroo

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When Upper School French teachers Cécile Roucher-Greenberg and  Candie Sanderson began outlining plans for the museum gallery of French art...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

MS Pasta and Marshmallow Challenge

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One of the more popular design challenges is how to build a "structure" out of pasta (spaghetti) and marshmallows. The students ar...

MS Students Using iMovie for Science Classes

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Middle School students have created a series of  news shorts using iMovie. What is interesting about this project, new this year, is that it...

MS Students Use Virtual Reality to Inspire Poetry

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Students spend 5 minutes in VR using a 3D drawing tools called "Tilt Brush." Then they get a copy of the artwork they created, ...
Friday, February 8, 2019

US Sophomores Create Podcasts in English Class

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Ms. Bonsey's students created a new podcast on anchor.fm where they have posted a series of podcasts that discuss the books they've ...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

MS Students Use Padlet for Brainstorming

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Librarian Wendy Wunder used Padlet to have 8th grade English students brainstorm about their story projects. She said, "I used Padlet a...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

US Film Students Draw With Light

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Upper School students in Mr. Gaines film & video course recently produced a series of still images in which they used shutter speed effe...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Live Streaming Dr. Price's Entry Report

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Thanks to the Communications Office, BB&N has started streaming important school events. On November 8th, Head of School Jennifer Price...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Old Technology in the MS MakerSpace

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Our new Middle School technology integrationist, Bill Castell, has brought some interesting "antiques" into the makerspace for stu...
Friday, October 12, 2018

BB&N Faculty & Staff EdCamp is Well Received

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On October 9th the faculty and staff participated in an "EdCamp" which is a participant-driven model of professional development. ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

6th Graders Create Novel Displays

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Ms. Huff's sixth grade students were challenged in small groups to create a way to display important parts of the novel Haroun and the S...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Kindergartners Build EcoSonic Playground

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Ever since 1999, Lower School music teacher Sara Zur had been dreaming of creating a musical play space for kids that would open their imag...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Ceramic Artist Students Wikis

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In the 8th-grade ceramics courses, students contributed in creating an artist's wiki based on an individual ceramic artist of their c...

EZ Sound with Coil Pots in 7th Grade

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In the 7th-grade ceramics course, the final project ‘Music Meets Large Coil Pots,’ students created a pot or sculpture based on their favor...
Friday, May 18, 2018

MS Drama Video Chats with School in Tanzania

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For their second video chat with the school in Tanzania, students performed skits, asked questions, and sang their respective national anthe...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Faculty Hub For Academic Support

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Our goal in creating a Power School Page/Site entitled Faculty Hub For Academic Support was to create a central location for faculty to acc...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Stress Reduction Launch Grant

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The launch grant this year supported me to think creatively about how I share stress-reduction, mindfulness-based interventions with kids at...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Assessment in the Language Classroom

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There are many topics within a language class that need repetition in order to achieve mastery. This repetition is and should be a part of t...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Dr. Baum's Launch Grant Video Library

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Dr. Baum used a launch grant to create a lecture video library for one of her upper level courses. Her videos of foundational knowledge serv...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Building Lamps in 7th Grade English

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In English class the focus and priority is always reading and writing. It is important, however, to engage students in multiple methods of ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Springtime in the MS Makerspace

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Our Middle School Makerspace is clearly a multi-purpose resource, not just for circuits!
Monday, March 12, 2018

Technology at the Middle School

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From the bbns website,  March   12,   2018 Technology at the Middle School MS science teacher Amy Carey with students in the Maker Sp...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Launch Grant: The Bible and Bookmaking Technology

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Upper School teacher Zoe Balaconis did an interesting launch grant with her Sophomore English class: In Sophomore year, students are re...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Launch Grant: Peer Feedback in Upper School Biology Class

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Upper School science teacher Amanda Borking did a launch grant this year to explore the use of peer feedback through the PowerSchool class w...

Creating Online Resources for US Chem Course

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During the 2017-2018 school year Upper School chemistry teacher Jake Nagy used a launch grant to create supplemental informational resources...
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