Category: creativity
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A Creative Professional Resume on Prezi
Manuel Gonzales has been the lead educational technology trainer for the Oklahoma State Department of Education for the past couple of years, and is a fantastic edtech guru. Manuel is moving with his family to Denver this spring because of his wife’s job, and let me know last week about the very creative professional resume…
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Learning about Glass Blowing in Santa Fe, New Mexico (videos)
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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iPhoneography Apps for Capture, Editing and Upload / Sharing
In preparation for this evening’s Seedlings webcast on EdTechTalk about 365 Photo projects and iPhoneography, I’ve created three new app lists on Appolicious. Each of these lists (available on Appolicious) are linked, so you can use them to directly view each app’s page on iTunes and download them if desired. Favorite apps for photo capture…
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Beautiful Transmediation Example: How To Be Alone
“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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Virtuoso iPad Teacher
I shared this photo of Sarah teaching about the “Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD” iPad app today in our iOS workshop as my 365 photo project image of the day. It was SO fun to teach with my kids today– they did GREAT and really added to the workshop learning! All the links from our…
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Learning about Scratch Basics (a podcast interview with 7 and 10 year olds)
My daughters, Sarah and Rachel, recorded this fourteen minute Cinchcast with me today discussing their initial experiences learning how to create with Scratch software from MIT. They discussed learning how to move Sprites, about costumes, loops, coordinate geometry basics, and more. Download Scratch for free from scratch.mit.edu. Scratch resources from my Fall 2010 undergraduate course,…
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The HDR Photo Difference
The iPhone 4 camera includes an optional HDR capability, which (according to the English Wikipedia) is: …is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to…
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Tumblr for my 365 Photo Project in 2011
For the last few years, I’ve watched with interest as friends as well as online acquaintances have embarked on and continued “365 photo” projects. I’ve held off joining this group of regular, sharing photographers, but this year I’ve decided to join the team. My 365 project will “officially” start on January 1st, but I’m getting…
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PhotoShop, Art, and Ning Collaboration with Students in Maine and China
In this 5 min, 23 sec video, Abbie (a high school student in Yarmouth, Maine) explains how students in her class are using cameras, PhotoShop, and a Ning website to engage in a collaborative project with a partner classroom in China. Melissa Noack is the Yarmouth art teacher who designed and is facilitating this project…