Category: creativity
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One Day on Earth: Help Storychase the World’s Story on 10.10.10
If you’ve heard of projects like the Millennium Photo Project and 24 Hours of Flickr, you’ll readily understand the basic idea behind the “One Day on Earth” video documentary project. In one twenty-four hour period of time, 10.10.10 or October 10, 2010, volunteers from around the world on seven continents will work together to document…
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When I Become a Librarian (Librarian Movie)
Today I had the pleasure of leading a full-day workshop for librarians in Mid-Del Public Schools, located in Midwest City, Oklahoma, just east of Oklahoma City and next to Tinker Air Force Base. Inspired by Marco Torres and his 2001 “Teacher Movie” created with educators at Lesley University, we created the following 2 minute video,…
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Look for innovations which change the script
Today I had a five and a half hour opportunity to put together a new swingset with my brother-in-law. This is the third time I’ve put together a swingset as a parent, and the first time I’ve put together a wooden swingset. The first time I ever spent hours putting together a swingset in my…
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Why email is NOT good enough for communication today
Email is an example of “one to one” (or one to a defined many) communication. When you send an email, you have to specify the recipients in the TO, CC, and BCC fields of your message. While your email message COULD be forwarded on to others (resulting in a greater distribution) and along the line…
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Quickstart guides for Posterous and iPadio
Tomorrow our initial three days of the “Oklahoma Creativity Institute” for fifty K-12 teachers starts in Oklahoma City. I’m VERY enthused to be co-facilitating this with Tammy Parks, thanks to the hard work of an entire team including staff at Oklahoma A+ Schools. I’ve created two new handouts for the Institute which you’re free to…
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OLPC 2012 Tablet Video and more from San Antonio this week
Yesterday I shared a presentation with administrators in San Antonio, Texas, and was delighted to meet Honor Moorman in person at the event. Honor is a teacher at the International School of the Americas, and students in her 21st Century Global Leadership class last Spring created some fantastic videos as culminating class projects. Pre-service teachers…
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Podcast350: Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World (part 1 of 2)
Part 1 of 2: This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Wesley Fryer on June 16, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at the summer administrative leadership conference for Northeast ISD. This was a 2+ hour presentation, so the recordings have been separated into two parts. See the podcast shownotes for links to referenced…
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Sketchcasting: A combination of blogging, talking and drawing!
Mete Akcaoglu defines “sketchcasting” as: … an attempt to merge the power of blogging with the “high-bandwidth” experience of talking and scribbling at the same time… it’s effectively a podcast with a whiteboard. He’s created the YouTube channel Sketchcaster, and has eight examples posted there to date. He’s posted his sketchcasts over on sketch.basement.org. His…
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Want to Inspire Creativity? Invite LOTS of Opportunities to CREATE
Without creation, there can be no creativity. If we want to inspire our students to be creative, as teachers we must invite students to CREATE content frequently. Creative sharing should not take place only at the end of the year, or as a culminating project, but as a regular part of learning. The following story…