Category: creativity
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Learning, memory, stories, and books to read
Two new book recommendations worth noting from Ric Murry in his post, “Why Don’t Students Like School (ch. 3).” I’ve added both to my Amazon Wish List. (Hint to all you wealthy benefactors out there, my birthday is next month on the 20th. š ) First, “The Back of the Napkin” by Dan Roam. Second,…
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Chaiwan, The Innovation Economy, and our need to Educationally as well as Economically Re-Imagine Ourselves
The “four tigers” of East Asia established a model of export-led economic growth in the post-World War II global economy which demonstrated the potential for smaller governments to become economic powerhouses without a rich foundation of “traditional” natural resources like petroleum or other raw, natural materials. According to the current English WikiPedia entry: The term…
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1:1 Teaching & Learning Session, OK SDE Leadership Conference
My name is Dawn Danker. Iām the Director of Operations for Oklahoma A+ Schools and the not so faithful blogger of Subtle Conversations.Ā When Wes asked me to guest blog during his vacation, I too was honored by the invitation. Today I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Annual State Superintendent’s Leadership Conference, sponsored…
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Global Collaboration Buzzword or Educational Reality by Carol Anne McGuire
These are my notes from Carol Anne McGuire’s NECC09 presentation “Global Collaboration Buzzword or Educational Reality.” This is about Carol Anne’s project which has been running for 5 years, “Rock Our World.” I am audio recording this session and also recording with Ustream. Unfortunately the Ustream (as it did Saturday for EduBloggerCon) repeatedly disconnected, so…
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Notes from Peter H. Reynolds at CCDC09
These are my notes from Peter H. Reynolds’ closing commentary at the 4th Annual Constructivist Celebration We are really whole brain people – I know everyone in this room believes in the whole brain concept, we are not easily labeled – some courses like to label kids, and measure kid with data Great teaching is…
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Live Blog of Constructivist Consortium Commentary
I’m live blogging Gary Stager’s opening presentation at the Constructivist Consortium today with CoverItLive. I’ll try and add a Ustream as well! Intro Comments to Constructivist Celebration
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A light table, sand, music, tragic history and a phenomenal artist
Karyn Romeis posted a Russian langauge YouTube video to her blog today. Although I do not yet speak any Russian, the artist communicates a powerful story here in an amazing way which transcends language. What is the backstory? Is this the German invasion of Russia during World War II? What ARE the words of the…
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Final StopMotion Project Videos (2009 Edmond Fine Arts Institute Summer Camp)
We wrapped up a week-long summer camp on StopMotion Film Making today at the Edmond Fine Arts Institute, and students showed off the results of their creative week of filmmaking during a “showcase” at the end of class. All told, each student pair created four films each. Day 1 was an experimental film learning the…
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More amazing stopmotion examples
I’ll hopefully be able to post more reflections on our first day of Stopmotion Film Making summer camp soon, but I want to at least share the following two AMAZING stopmotion video examples tonight. This first one comes via a tweet from Oregon 5th grade teacher David Cosand. The stopmotion film “Sorry I’m Late” was…
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3 months of planning for 2 minutes of StopMotion
3 months of planning. 4 days of shooting. 6000+ post-it notes. A completed senior project by Bang-yao Liu at the Savannah College of Art and Design. 1 minute and 54 seconds, now on the global stage via YouTube. Here’s the visual backstory. I added this amazing example to my Stopmotion workshop wiki, not because I…