For the past several years, I’ve been a member and beneficiary of the Oklahoma City Co-Working Collaborative. If you’re not familiar with the co-working model, you should definitely read up on it. It’s great, and a super way for creative professionals to network as well as work together. The okcCoCo is winding up a week
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A large number of “Google Gadgets” are available to insert into sites you create with Blogger and Google Sites. It is possible to create a custom Google Gadget also, which can be embedded in multiple pages. In this seven minute screencast, I describe how to create a simple Google Gadget which can serve as another
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(cross-posted from playingwithmedia.com) More classroom teachers and other educators are using Google Sites to create websites these days. Google Sites is free, flexible, and well integrated with other “Google Tools” like Google Docs and YouTube. Certainly Google Sites has limitations, but its FREE price tag combined with flexibility (especially when a school is already using
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Last week I created a new WordPress website (learn.playingwithmedia.com) for the series of workshops I’m offering both face-to-face and via videoconference in December focusing on skills from my eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” The main website for my book (playingwithmedia.com) is hosted for free by Posterous.com. The learn.playingwithmedia.com site, however, is
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Yesterday during the Innovative Learning Institute hosted by the K-20 Center at the University of Oklahoma, I recorded a great interview you need to check out using the free Cinch app on my iPhone. Adam Neff is the coach of the undefeated, state football champion Raiders of Maryetta School in Stilwell, Oklahoma. (Their junior high
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These are my notes from John Mackey’s luncheon remarks about Whole Foods and creativity on November 1, 2011, at the 2011 Oklahoma Creativity Forum. Today’s program is available in PDF format. John is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Whole Foods Market. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I believe creativity is intrinsic to
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Today’s the biggest day of the fall (in the northern hemisphere) for Apple fanboys and fangirls: The iPhone 5 iPhone 4S announcement is expected at the press event Apple’s hosting in Cupertino on its campus. The excitement starts at noon central time, and I’ll be following the news with Engadget’s event live blog Leo Laport’s Live
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These are my notes from the Google SketchUp workshop led by Allyson McDuffie at the September 27, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Allyson’s bio on our conference presenter’s page is: Allyson McDuffie manages the SketchUp for Education Program at Google, which has taken her to
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I received a tweet last night from Amber Pope, a 7th grade social studies, geography, & civics teacher in Tarrant, Alabama. Amber asked for resource suggestions for students developing iOS / mobile applications in a special summer program she’s leading at her school. These are the suggestions I provided! WebKit Open Source Project: This is
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I love this quotation: More and more, the big ideas are going to come from passion projects, not necessarily classrooms, and that enthusiasm ultimately is what will drive innovation, said Make’s Dougherty. photo © 2008 Chris | more info (via: Wylio) To me this perspective doesn’t diminish the importance of schools or our classrooms, but
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The new student collaboration spaces in the library at Texas Tech University offer great opportunities for student collaboration and a digital sharing. Multiple large displays, multiple “hockey puck” VGA laptop connectors, webcams and 360 degree H.363 videoconferencing equipment are some of the highlights. I want my home office to look this good and have such
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It’s never too early to start talking with kids about college, and you can’t put a price on inspiration. These were some of the ideas reinforced by our “partial” family’s visit today to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, about thirty minutes north of downtown Chicago right on the western shore of Lake Michigan. I’m here
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This podcast from the road is a reflection on Steven Johnson’s book, “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” and the ways ideas from this book can be applied to our personal learning as educators as well as the future schools we may aspire to build.
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Did you know a “freezer” for cooling glass can be one thousand degrees fahrenheit?! This past Christmas break, our family stopped in Santa Fe, New Mexico and visited Jackalope. Our favorite part of the store (which is fantastic) is the glass blower’s demonstration area, where we learned numerous things about this intriguing art form. I
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I had an opportunity to put together several pieces of office equipment from IKEA today, including a small bookshelf. Having put together several fairly complex swing sets as well as desks in the past, I’m a big fan of simple designs. I love how the creators of this bookshelf didn’t make things needlessly complex with
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“How To Be Alone” is a beautiful example of transmediation by filmmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis. The words in this video are compelling and poetic in their own right. Combined with artistically planned videography and overlaid with drawings as well as animations, the final work represents a combination of expressive media types which
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Today at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City on 17 November 2010, an artist demonstrated what he has drawn using the iPad application Brushes this week at the conference. This was amazing! (I didn’t catch his name, so if you know please comment here or tweet it to me.) This six minute video unfortunately
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Today at the Creativity World Forum on 17 Nov 2010 in Oklahoma City, I had an opportunity to interview James Gibson at the Lego Store booth. James works at the Oklahoma City Lego Store, and he discussed why Legos are great for encouraging creativity, some things that are special about our Oklahoma City Lego store,
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These are my notes from the closing convergence session at the Creativity World Forum on 17 Nov 2010, “Are We Ready to Innovate?” My thoughts are in ALL CAPS. On the panel: David Lopez, Amena Brown, Itamar Kubovy, Bart Conner, Andrew Essex, Randy Atkins, Ken Fergeson Randy: What are the grand challenges and how do
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The opening ceremony today at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City was spectacular. I took several videos with my iPhone of different parts of the presentation, which was shared by members of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. The Chickasaws are one of 39 different tribes in Oklahoma, which are each considered sovereign tribes. Before
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