Category: creativity
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Visualizing Ideas about Creativity with Wordle
Today at THE NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, we used a custom mobile website (created with MobilAP for free, thanks to the assistance of great folks from Apple, UCO and Creative Oklahoma) to solicit participant answers to questions and prompts throughout the day. The majority of attendees at…
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Thinking About Learning & Learning About Thinking: Implications for Creative Human Activity by Dennis Cheek
These are my notes from the first half of the second session session, “Thinking About Learning & Learning About Thinking: Implications for Creative Human Activity by ” by Dennis Cheek at the THE NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning conference. The mobile website for this conference (which is optimized for the iPhone /…
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The Renaissance: Leonardo daVinci & the Creative Mind by Bulent Atalay
These are my notes from the opening session, “The Renaissance: Leonardo daVinci & the Creative Mind” by Bulent Atalay at the THE NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning conference. The mobile website for this conference (which is optimized for the iPhone / iPod Touch and other mobile devices) was created using the open…
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Chinese Parental Expectations, Creativity, and Chinese Film Recommendations
Early this morning (thanks in part to the delayed effects of jet lag) I finished reading Shouhua Qi’s outstanding book, “Bridging the Pacific: Searching for Cross-Cultural Understanding Between the United States and China.” Dr. Qi is currently a professor of English at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. I shared a few ideas I gleaned…
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Visual Tapestry – Flight
I’m continuing to help prepare for next week’s educational symposium “NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning” to be held at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond on September 30th. Peter Donaldson is our main speaker and event consultant, and will be role-playing Leonardo da Vinci the entire day. To create atmosphere and…
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I Need my Teachers to Learn (an amazing song and video by Kevin Honeycutt)
Rae Niles forwarded the song “I Need My Teachers To Learn” to me today, and I was blown away. The song was written by Kevin Honeycutt of ESSDACK, and Charlie Mahoney from Turning Point Learning Center (TPLC) helped with percussion as well as some Garageband vocal adjustments to make him sound even more awesome! The…
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Nuggets from the Google Teacher Academy Meetup in Boulder
I’m in Boulder, Colorado today for the Google Teachers Academy. The fun and learning starts in about an hour and a half, but before I head out I thought I’d quickly share a few links from our meetup last night with educators from around the country as well as a few sites I encountered listening…
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To succeed we must fail – a LOT
Success can be and is defined in many ways. We don’t (as a general rule) like failure as human beings, and our school systems certainly have a low tolerance for failure. Yet failure is not only a pre-requisite for creativity, it is also required for “success” in virtually every context. This Michael Jordan advertisement for…
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Google Voice and Latitude on the iPhone – Oops
Jason Kinkaid’s post on TechCruch today, “Apple Yanks The Cord On GV Mobile. Is It Trying To Kill Google Voice On The iPhone?” is worth reading. Jason reveals previously approved applications in the iTunes Store have been removed by Apple which supported Google Voice and development has been killed on an iPhone native app for…
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Thoughts on Macs and Netbooks
I absolutely love using Apple computers, Apple mobile devices, and Apple software. Netbooks have really challenged my thinking about 1:1 computing in schools in the past year or so, however, and I am definitely not alone. Yesterday at an Oklahoma City AT&T store, I had a chance to get my hands on a Dell Inspiron…