Category: creativity
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TEDxOU in January 2012 and TEDxOKC 2011 Videos
This past April, Oklahoma City hosted the first TEDx event in our state: TEDxOKC. As expected, it was a fantastic day of inspirational and moving talks. Today at lunch I ran into Ken Stoner, who was the primary organizer of TEDxOKC, and he told me a TEDxOU event is being scheduled for January 2012. A…
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Playing with Doink Animation
Randy Rogers (@rrodgers) showed me two awesome animation apps for the iPad on Friday in White Oak at the TCEA Area 7 conference, and I played with the first one a bit tonight. While I readily admit (sheepishly) this simple animation reveals my artistic skills never advanced much beyond the second grade, the fact I…
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Passion Projects, Learning and Innovation
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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Podcast377: iPad Stylus Recommendations from Kevin Helmer
This podcast is an interview with Kevin Helmer, iPad artist and digital road warrior, at the Celebrate Texas Voices digital storytelling workshop in Lubbock, Texas, on April 19, 2011. Kevin discusses four different “capacitive” stylus pens he uses with his iPad and their relative merits. He also discusses several apps he’s used and likes for…
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Spoken Word Poetry, Project V.O.I.C.E. and Sarah Kay at #tedxokc
Today at the TEDxOKC conference, I had an opportunity to briefly meet our amazing MC for the day, Sarah Kay. She’s staying through Monday, and my top culinary recommendation to her was to go eat at Big Truck Tacos while she’s in the city! This is a photo of Tammy Parks (an amazing broadcast journalism…
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Focus on Creating New Things, Not Just Fixing Broken Old Stuff
As human beings as well as educators in our schools, we need to make opportunities each week to CREATE new things. The act of creating is something we are wired to do naturally, yet as we get older many of us schedule our daily lives in ways which make creativity a rare rather than common…
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Shifting from Writing to Videography
Andrew B. Watt here… Over the last few months, I’ve made a shift in my online footprint, from being a blogger to a video-maker. It started as a foray into video work but it’s become a part of my classroom process, homework review process, and online activity. Wes asked me to write a bit about how…
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Presentation Links from the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference #heartlandconf11
Today was the second day of the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. These are links to the resources I shared in my two pre-conference workshops, opening plenary session, and breakout session. Geo-Apps: Geographic Curriculum Connections (Google Maps and Google Earth) Creativity in eLearning View more presentations from Wesley…
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Storytelling with Scratch
Scratch is a fantastic, FREE, creative program from MIT which can be used to create art, animations, games, music, simulations, stories and more. For week 7 of my “Technology 4 Teachers” course at the University of Central Oklahoma, I asked my students to spend at least ONE HOUR playing in Scratch and “creating something cool.”…
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Podcast373: Innovation, Creativity and Future Schools
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. Show Notes: Steven Johnson’s book, “Where…