I’m on the first leg of my journey to Shanghai and the Learning 2.011 Conference. I’m reading Ted Bayles and Ted Orland’s thought provoking book, “Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking.” It’s a book I encountered while researching the origins of a story I included about creativity in my book,
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Cross-posted from “Playing with Media.” Today I’m enthused to announce a new website: SHARE – Playing with Media, as well as a monthly raffle for educators and parents sharing examples of student media products and projects on the site. Here are the details. Please help spread the word! The website share.playingwithmedia.com has been launched to
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Adam Ostrow’s TED Talk, “After your final status update,” raises some interesting questions and possibilities regarding social media, intelligent analysis software programs, and digital footprints. In the video, Adam highlights the web services: IfIdie.net: Lets people create a video which is shown to others online after their death 1000memories: Lets people create an online photo
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The possibilities for media consumption on the go continue to improve at a speed which is difficult to imagine at times, and this holiday weekend provided a vivid example. Do you remember playing mixes of songs on cassette tapes on car trips? Do you remember what it was like to anticipate a certain song order
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I spent four or five hours today helping a local non-profit group in Oklahoma City get access restored to their WordPress website. The site was hacked by a group apparently from Turkey. They were not able to login to the administrative “dashboard” of their WordPress site. Instead of a login screen, the following message in
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A printed, paperback version of my book, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing” is now available via CreateSpace for $19.99. I highly recommend the less expensive eBook versions of “Playing with Media,” but I know many people still prefer reading printed books. It’s also quite exciting, when you’re 7 years old and the
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