Category: creativity
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Amazing Musical Creativity on an iPhone Guitar & iPad Drum Set #edapp
Take nine minutes and watch educators Kevin Honeycutt and Howard Pitler demonstrate their musical creativity as well as skills on an iPhone and iPad in the video, “Tradigital Mini-Concert at AESA Conference.” Better yet, show this video your students and then together, discuss the creative possibilities demonstrated here! The apps Kevin and Howard utilize in…
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Happy Chester Greenwood Day! #invention #creativity #maine
It’s the first Saturday of December and it’s Chester Greenwood Day in Farmington, Maine! Not sure who Chester Greenwood was? Like me, you must not live in Farmington. According to the current English WikiPedia entry for Chester: Chester Greenwood (1858-1937) of Farmington, Maine invented the earmuff in 1873, at the age of 15. He reportedly…
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Sting on Risk and Challenge
Enroute to the 2010 Christa Mcauliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, I read Anthony DeCurtis’ article “Rock n Roll Yogi” in the November 2010 issue of Delta Sky magazine. In the article, Anthony quotes Sting as saying: I don’t think that anything that doesn’t involve a risk is worth doing. There needs to be…
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Speech Tournament Naps, iPod Policies, Laptop Lockdowns and Student Inspiration #cwf2010
Yesterday and today my son and I spent quite a few hours at Putnam City North High School, northwest of Oklahoma City, at their annual speech and debate tournament. I snapped these photos today in the student commons area. Weekend tournaments can be tiring! Some of the students on our team didn’t leave Friday night…
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Advice for Parents: How to Encourage Creativity in Your Child #cwf2010
This 3 minute, 45 second video clip was recorded at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City on 17 November 2010. Members of the panel included Scott Noppe-Brandon, Matt Brown, and David Edwards. In this segment, panelists give their advice for how parents can effectively encourage and support creativity in their children. The initial seconds…
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Amazing iPad Digital Drawings at the Creativity World Forum #cwf2010
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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Legos, Creativity, and the Oklahoma City Lego Store
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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Are We Ready to Innovate? Closing Creativity World Forum Session #cwf2010
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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imagination conversations: a project of the Lincoln Center Institute #cwf2010
These are my notes from “imagination conversations: a project of the Lincoln Center Institute” at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City on 17 November 2010. Panelists include Scott Noppe-Brandon, Eric Liu, and Martha McKenna from Lesley University. I am audio-recording this session with permission from presenters and will publish it later here as an…
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From Imagination to Innovation: Creativity World Forum #cwf2010
These are my notes from the opening convergence session at the 2010 Creativity World Forum titled, “From Imagination to Innovation.” Panelists include Scott Noppe-Brandon, Matt Brown, and David Edwards. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. WHAT A GREAT CONVERSATION THIS WAS! Bio of Scott Noppe-Brandon, executive director of Lincoln Center Institute: Scott is…