Category: creativity
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Deepening our Learning Through Storytelling: creativity, STEM and stories
These are my slides and videos for the presentation, “Deepening our Learning Through Storytelling: creativity, STEM and stories” to be shared at Yarmouth High School (Maine) on September 28, 2011. As learners of all ages (teachers and students) we need to “play with media” and utilize media tools to communicate. Good stories start with good…
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Google SketchUp Workshop (Sept 2011)
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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Starting the School Year Off Right with a Faculty & Staff Lip Dub
Faculty and staff in O’Neill, Nebraska, have kicked off a new school year with a fun new media twist: In two hours they planned and recorded a wonderful lip dub set to Journey’s song, “Don’t Stop Believing.” There are TONS of great scenes in this lib dub, but my favorite is definitely the guitar solo…
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iPhonography Examples from Montana #wildtech
Wednesday at the 14th Annual August Institute, “Technology Runs Through It” conference at the University of Montana in Missoula, I’ll be sharing a three hour workshop on iPhoneography. In preparation for the workshop, I found several photos I’ve taken this past week in Montana which represent some of my best “artistic efforts” as an aspiring…
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Supporting STEM Skills with Scratch #innovation2011
How are you encouraging students as well as teachers to regularly develop problem solving skills, creativity, and computational thinking skills? Scratch software from MIT should play a significant part in your answer to this question. This Friday, July 8, 2011, I’ll be sharing three presentations at the Innovations 2011 Conference in Oklahoma City sponsored by…
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The Marketing Slogans I’d Give AT&T
Today I was using the website Wylio.com to search for Creative Commons licensed photos to use in some upcoming blog posts, and I searched for the terms, “education reform.” I came across the following two photos, which I took in 2007 when I was working for AT&T as a state education advocate. These are slogans…
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John Medina’s #iste11 Keynote on YouTube: Brain Rules
Missed the opening keynote at the 2011 International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) conference last week in Philadelphia? No worries, ISTE and John Medina have generously posted his speech about “Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School” in its entirety on YouTube! The entire video is 76 minutes…
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iPad Illustrations by Rachel Fryer (age 7) for #playingwithmedia
I’ve contracted with my 7 year old daughter, Rachel, to illustrate my forthcoming eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” She took my iPad2 and a Rocketfish stylus to Lubbock this weekend with her mom and sister, and created some amazing illustrations in the 7 hour car trip each way. She used the…
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A Live Action Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle #gct
Back in April 2011, a team at Google created the first “live action Google doodle” to commemorate the birthday of Charlie Chaplain. In a post about the project and Chaplain, Google doodler Ryan Germick wrote: Chaplin is also one of my creative heroes. Despite being an art-obsessed high schooler preemptively bored by anything in black…