Category: creativity
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Getting Creative with Windows Live Movie Maker on a Netbook
This past fall when discussing 1:1 computing options at an educational technology conference, I asked an Apple rep the reasons schools should choose Macbooks over netbooks at this point. The person’s three part response was: Netbooks have weak batteries that won’t last more than two hours. Netbooks are flimsy / not rugged and won’t stand…
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KFC and McDonalds Reinvent Themselves – Why Not Our Schools?
In the past couple of years, have you noticed how many fast food chain restaurants have undergone a complete facelift? This is a photograph, taken with the Pano application on my iPhone, of our Oklahoma City KFC restaurant on 23rd street. Wow! What a change from the “typical” fast food restaurant! The physical environment has…
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Meet Jonney Shih, Netbook innovator
As a blog reader, you’re most likely familiar with names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer. How about Jonney Shih? If you have no idea who Shih is, you’re probably not alone. Currently there is not an English WikiPedia article for him, despite the fact that his vision and work are reshaping the…
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Oklahoma Bears, Tar Pits, Mountains, Girls Circles, and Marriages of 70+ years
Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog. This week Oklahoma educators participated in our 29th “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop since 2008, and created some fantastic digital stories about the history, geography, and people of our great state. Did you know Oklahoma is home to a growing black bear population and just had its first open hunting season…
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iTunesU Content from “The New Renaissance: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning”
I learned this morning video content from the September 30th symposium at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, “A New Renaissance: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning” is available for download via iTunes. Here is a direct link to the event’s iTunesU site, which is part of UCO’s iTunes site. A link to the event’s mobile site…
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Harry Potter Puppet Show on YouTube
Our 15 year old babysitter recently showed my kids the YouTube video, Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise.” This 2 minute and 6 second video has had over 71 million views to date. If your students have access at home to YouTube, chances are good many of them have seen this. My 11…
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Transforming Classroom Practice with 1:1 by Jenny Wojick, Andy Marks, Janet Parkerson, Virginia Glass and Kelly Goldberg
These are my notes from the presentation “Transforming Classroom Practice with 1:1” by Jenny Wojick, Andy Marks, Janet Parkerson, Virginia Glass and Kelly Goldberg at the One to One Institute‘s conference on November 10, 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois. All are educators in Roundout School District #72, in Lake Forest, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN…
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10 things you can do with a laptop (Gary Stager at eLearn09)
Gary Stager shared his presentation, “10 things you can do with a laptop” at the 2009 uLearn Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month. Gary’s summary of this session is available on his website. This presentation is based on Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon’s 1971 paper, “Twenty Things to Do with a Computer.” Check out…
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Save the Date! PodStock 2010: July 16-17
It’s coming and you won’t want to miss it! The 2010 PodStock conference will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. The 2009 PodStock conference was a GREAT event, made superb by the contributions of lots of creative educators from around the midwest of the USA and beyond. Mark…
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Creativity and Innovation in Chinese Society and Schools
Yesterday our international group (composed of educators from the UK, Australia, and the US) had the opportunity to visit both Hangzhou Normal University as well as Zhejiang University here in Hangzhou, China, just outside of Shanghai. (full panorama: 4154 x 976) Hangzhou currently has a population of about 13 million people, Shanghai has a population…