Category: creativity
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We all can learn a great deal from a great kindergarten teacher
Today was a real treat. My 9 year old daughter and I spent most of the day at Deerfield Community School, in Deerfield, New Hampshire. While Sarah was hosted by a wonderful Deerfield student and enjoyed learning about their upcoming science fair projects (as well as other topics) I met with teachers in several grade…
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Tales of Digital Magic presentation resources #pbtechconf
This are my presentation slides and resources for my opening keynote Friday at the Palm Beach County Schools’ annual technology conference. My session was initially titled “CCC in the 21C,” but I tweaked the name to be, “Tales of Digital Magic: gallant heroines, evil villains, and words of power.” Resources: Moving at the Speed of…
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Opera Mini Browser Coming to the iPhone / iPod Touch?
I absolutely love my iPhone and can’t wait to try out an iPad. I often wonder, however, how Apple is going to balance the creativity and new functionalities offered by new iPhone app developers with their corporate desire (and perhaps contractual obligations to AT&T) to continue exerting control and influence over certain kinds of developed…
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Gotta Keep Reading – A YouTube Remix of the Black Eyed Peas by Florida Students
Let’s hear it for innovative ways to help students get more excited about reading… AND… the legal, transformative remixing of copyrighted works like the song, “I’ve Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas! The five minute YouTube video, “Gotta Keep Reading,” was created by students and staff at Ocoee Middle School, working with college students…
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Tweet On: Microblogging can help you be more creative
If you work with folks who question the time you spend “on the clock” perusing and contributing to social media websites / micro-blogging communities like Twitter, you might direct them to Brendan Koerner’s February 2010 article for Wired, “How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive.” Brendan writes: Studies that accuse social networks of reducing…
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Tethered iPhone Internet Access with iPhoneModem (Jailbreak required)
This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. I’ve agreed to share a series of blog posts here on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” this week. Hope you find this series helpful! If you have questions about this post I’ll be glad to answer them via comments here. Full disclosure: I’m not affiliated…
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Secret iPhone Agreement (now public) and Apple User Ethics
Thanks to the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and, ironically, the successful development of an iPhone application by NASA (bound by the Freedom of Information Act) the secret iPhone Developer agreement is now public. (PDF) EFF summarizes the key highlights of the agreement: Ban on Public Statements [by developers] App Store Only [for distribution]…
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Writing Essays and Creating New Games: Things We Should Do on Netbooks
Walter Bender, former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation and founder of Sugar Labs, granted an interview in December 2009 to Wade Roush. Wade’s article is titled, “Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry.” Bender gave the opening keynote address in…
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Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content #mace2010
These are my notes from Bob Lee’s session “Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. All resoruces are on tinyurl.com/leeremix – bob [dot] lee [usd382 [dot] com Bob Lee is…
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Free Resources from Discovery Education #mace2010
These are my notes from Jennifer Dorman’s presentation “Free Resources from Discovery Education” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. This session was webcasted by Dean Mantz and live-blogged via CoverItLive. Those archives are embedded below. MACE 2010 DEN w/…