Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Month: March 2012

  • Visualizing #beyondthetextbook

    I’ve shared photos from yesterday and today’s forum, “Beyond the Textbook,” in this Flickr set. I posted two collections of notes from the day, “Morning discussions on digital content, textbooks, & learning” and “Synthesizing #beyondthetextbook dialog in groups.” Interesting conversations and links continue to be shared via Twitter with the hashtag, #beyondthetextbook. Here are a…

  • Synthesizing #beyondthetextbook dialog in groups

    These are my notes from the second phase of our morning discussions on March 19, 2012, at the “Beyond the Textbook” forum in Washington D.C. Participants are included on this Twitter list. Follow these continuing discussions with the Twitter hashtag #beyondthetextbook. See my post from earlier today, “Required Reading for #beyondthetextbook” and initial morning post,…

  • Morning discussions on digital content, textbooks, & learning

    These are my notes from our initial morning discussions on March 19, 2012, at the “Beyond the Textbook” forum in Washington D.C. Participants are included on this Twitter list. Follow these continuing discussions with the Twitter hashtag #beyondthetextbook. See my post from earlier today, “Required Reading for #beyondthetextbook” for more background. what should digital textbooks…

  • Required Reading for #beyondthetextbook

    This morning our full day of discussions and presentations for Discovery Education’s forum, “Beyond the Textbook,” start in Washington D.C. In the few minutes I have before we depart for the day’s activities, I want to share a few posts I’ve read in the last couple days by following the #beyondthetextbook hashtag on Twitter. Let’s…

  • Remove Background Audio Noise with WavePad

    Yesterday I heard a fantastic presentation in Yarmouth, Maine, by teacher Amy Sanders about her Arab Spring Project. I took notes and shared links during her presentation, and also recorded the presentation with permission using my iPhone and the free iOS app/service Cinch. Unfortunately there was a loud heater fan running in the classroom where…

  • Playing With Media Trailer: Modeling Technology Use as the Superintendent

    (cross-posted to PlayingWithMedia.com) Today to kick off our “Playing with Media” professional development day in Yarmouth Schools in Maine, superintendent Judy Paolucci created a 90 second video trailer on her iPad. With assistance from technology integrator Mike Arsenault, Judy learned how to use the latest version of iMovie on Wednesday and interviewed different students to…

  • Global Collaboration (including The Arab Spring Project) at Yarmouth High School

    UPDATE 12.12.2012: I cross-posted a normalized version of this presentation to “Fuel for Educational Change Agents” podcast channel. These are my notes from Amy Sanders’ presentation, “Global Collaboration” at the March 16, 2012, professional development day at Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine. Amy teaches several high school social studies courses, including Arab Studies (last…

  • Sharing PD Day Expectations: Paper Slide Video Style

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) This morning in Yarmouth, Maine, Cathy Wolinsky and Mike Arsenault created a 106 second video using “Explain Everything” on an iPad to share expectations and directions for teachers for tomorrow’s district-wide professional development day. This video was inspired by Paper Slide Videos, but rather than shooting a “one take” video (Common Craft…

  • Serving or Delivering does not equal Teaching or Learning

    It’s interesting to compare the public metrics of Khan Academy and McDonalds. Last week’s 60 Minutes episode about Khan Academy opened many people’s eyes for the first time to the power and utility of free idea sharing via YouTube. If you haven’t seen it, take 13 minutes and watch it. I think many of the…

  • Your Next Textbook Will be a Palantir

    In advance of next week’s #beyondthetextbook forum hosted by Discovery Education, David Warlick has posted a good “fill in the blank” challenge on his blog: “The learning device(s) that our learners will walk into their classrooms with will be more like a ________________.” After submitting “palantir” on his Google form I responded with a comment:…